AI: surefire shortcut to success or chimera?

摘要

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool in food and beverage development, but it's far from the only answer. Consider, for instance, the case of pea proteins.Hampton Creek was a startup sensation, with founder Joshua Tetrick famously introducing an ersatz mayonnaise made from pea proteins and promising a stream of other plant-based products leveraging AI, even going so far as to patent an AI system dubbed "Blackbird" to research proteins at the molecular level.