According to the principal research scientist on an IBM project studying how to use AI for product – specifically perfume – composition, the skill that takes perfumers ten or more years to develop may be learned quicker and more precisely by AI.
Richard Goodwin, along with his research team at IBM and global flavour and fragrance producer, Symrise, “created an AI system that can learn about formulas, raw materials, historical success data and industry trends” bringing perfumers intelligent machine-learning apprentices. Globally speaking, this can save master perfumers time to perfect a fragrance rather than searching for new combinations.