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Title    A Robot is the Judge of Authentic Thai Food
Date    Tuesday September 30 2014, @03:04AM
Author    n1
Topic   
from the season-6-masterchef-judge dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/29/230257

mendax writes:

The New York Times published an interesting article about other tasty articles—Thai food:

Hopscotching the globe as Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra repeatedly encountered a distressing problem: bad Thai food.

Too often, she found, the meals she sampled at Thai restaurants abroad were unworthy of the name, too bland to be called genuine Thai cooking. The problem bothered her enough to raise it at a cabinet meeting.

Her political party has since been thrown out of office, in a May military coup, but her initiative in culinary diplomacy lives on.

At a gala dinner at a ritzy Bangkok hotel on Tuesday the government will unveil its project to standardize the art of Thai food — with a robot.

Diplomats and dignitaries have been invited to witness the debut of a machine that its promoters say can scientifically evaluate Thai cuisine, telling the difference, for instance, between a properly prepared green curry with just the right mix of Thai basil, curry paste and fresh coconut cream, and a lame imitation.

A boxy contraption filled with sensors and microchips, the so-called e-delicious machine scans food samples to produce a chemical signature, which it measures against a standard deemed to be the authentic version.

The government-financed Thai Delicious Committee, which oversaw the development of the machine, describes it as “an intelligent robot that measures smell and taste in food ingredients through sensor technology in order to measure taste like a food critic.”

I myself am a bit hesitant to believe that a machine can truly judge the quality of food, especially its authenticity. From my experience, the only real judge of good Thai food is when it's so spicy that my head is about to explode. Does the machine have a similar response?

Links

  1. "mendax" - https://soylentnews.org/~mendax/
  2. "published an interesting article" - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/world/asia/bad-thai-food-enter-a-robot-taster.html?_r=0

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