The Development Of AI-Enabled Coffee Brewing – CoffeeTalk

Fellow Products has introduced AI brewing and profile sharing to its coffee makers, Aiden and Aiden Profile Creator. Aiden profiles are shared with buyers of its “Drops” coffees or between individual users through a phone app. However, the profiles are not easy to sort or scan for details. To address this issue, Aiden enthusiast and hobbyist coder Kevin Anderson created brewshare.coffee, which gathers both general and bean-based profiles, makes them easy to search and load, and adds optional but helpful suggested grind sizes.

As a non-professional developer jumping into a public offering, Anderson had to work hard on data validation, backend security, and mobile-friendly design. With his tool, brew links can be stored and shared more widely, which helped both Dixon and another AI/coffee tinkerer. Gabriel Levine, director of engineering at retail analytics firm Leap Inc., lost his OXO coffee maker to malfunction just before the Aiden debuted. The Aiden appealed to Levine as a way to move beyond his coffee rut and bring out their characteristics.

Levine’s Aiden Profile Creator is a ChatGPT prompt set up with a custom prompt and told to weight certain knowledge more heavily. He cited resources like the Specialty Coffee Association of America and James Hoffman’s coffee guides as examples of what he fed it. What the profile creator does with that knowledge is something of a mystery to Levine himself. “There’s this kind of blind leap, where it’s grabbing the relevant pieces of information from the knowledge base, biasing toward all the expert advice and extraction science, doing something with it, and then I take that something and coerce it back into a structured output I can put on your Aiden,” Levine said.

Levine’s chatbot relies on Dixon’s work in revealing Fellow’s Aiden API and his own workhorse Aiden. Every Aiden profile link is created on a machine, so every profile created by Levine’s chat is launched, temporarily, from the Aiden in his kitchen, then deleted. As of April 22, nearly 3,600 profiles had passed through Levine’s Aiden.

Levine hopes that this lowers the bar to entry for specialty roasts and drives people to support local roasters and explore their world a little more. This revelation may not be new to someone already steeped in the models, but having tested and tasted his first big experiment while willfully engaging with a brewing bot, he is a bit more awake.

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