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posted by takyon on Monday April 13 2015, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the cloudy-with-a-probability-of-meatballs dept.

Steve Abrams, the director of IBM's Watson Life research program, told Quartz that Watson scanned publicly available data sources to build up a vast library of information on recipes, the chemical compounds in food, and common pairings. (For any budding gastronomers out there, Abrams said Wikia was a surprisingly useful source.) Knowledge that might've taken a lifetime for a Michelin-starred chef to attain can now be accessed instantly from your tablet.

The Watson team has actually published a cookbook of its AI-inspired dishes in partnership with the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), which launches April 14. While Quartz has not been able to test out Watson's esoteric parings yet, here are some that stood out:

It sounds like another sort of molecular gastronomy. Have any Soylentils eaten recipes like that? Does it work?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by deadstick on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:27AM

    by deadstick (5110) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @01:27AM (#170141)

    They are quite tasty indeed, once you get past the psychological hurdle.