PARIS: 2.7kg pale malt, 227g of oats, 454 g of flaked wheat and as much flaked oats as well as a teaspoon of Irish moss… This is an excerpt from the recipe for a beer recently made by a Canadian brewery based in Vancouver, presented by CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster.
While it may seem to be an amusing or offbeat one-off project, in fact, when it comes to food preparation, AI has been put to use for many years. More than 1.5 million comments and reviews posted on social networks about milk chocolate were fed into a software programme to develop a recipe based on the most shared taste preferences.
More recently, Estonian start-up Yummy unveiled an AI that kills two birds with one stone, not only suggesting recipes based on dietary restrictions but also generating a photo of the dish in question.Artificial intelligence is not only able to propose recipes, it can also help make them. The document states that by compiling data on consumer preferences, flavour pairing and mimicking and cost constraints, it’s possible to hone in on developing the ‘right product,” ie, one that is tasty, healthy and inexpensive.AI also plays a role behind the stove in the form of robots, which enable tedious tasks to be automated.