Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere these days. Students use it to craft term papers with varying degrees of success. Hospitals are trying to get in on the action to diagnose patients and write progress notes. We wondered how AI would do in the kitchen.
Julian’s been messing around with Chat GPT and Microsoft Copilot. He had the latter create a few “works of art”; for example, an astronaut playing an accordion while on a space walk. Then he suggested that we see how AI can handle recipe creation. “Give me a list of ingredients.” I proposed ground lamb, dates, olives, and couscous. We received the following in response;
It looked feasible, so I gave it a try last night. The recipe was straightforward. We had all of the ingredients on hand. And it was okay.
As with any recipe, a little tweaking was required. Two cups of dried couscous makes a BOATLOAD of couscous. I stuck to our usual proportion of 3/4 cup couscous to 1 cup boiling water. Upon tasting it, Julian thought it needed more dates. The recipe didn’t specify the size or amount of onion needed, so I used about 2/3 of a large yellow onion. The dish had the potential to be salty if you didn’t use low-sodium chicken broth. Moral of story: a little natural intelligence is needed to make AI work.
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