IBM Watson supercomputer has learned to create its own recipes

On Habré more than once and not two wrote about the IBM Watson supercomputer. This system is the center of a new corporation project, worth a billion dollars. A supercomputer is trained to handle huge amounts of data, including information about diseases, various kinds of scientific data, and ... recipes.



Yes, the supercomputer has been trained for two years with the goal that Watson could create its own dishes that can be called not only tasty, but also unusual. Well, for example, what about the recipe, where there are ingredients such as chocolate, coffee and garlic? In general, experts are trying to teach Watson to be creative in terms of writing recipes. And it seems that the training was not in vain.

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Now it’s enough to indicate the main component of the dish, the type of dish and the region under which you want to “tune” your dish (well, for example, Olivier salad is typical for the CIS, chicken noodles are typical for China, etc.), and the computer will try to choose ingredients so that you get the desired dish, but with a "twist".



In addition, the system evaluates each recipe (usually in each 12-24 ingredients) by the possible attractiveness of smell and taste, by its unusualness and by some other parameters. A little later, the project team says, Watson will be able to create recipes with step-by-step cooking instructions.



By the way, the other day Watson took part in one of the culinary shows. A vote was taken in advance on twitter, whose users decided on the type of dish that will make up the supercomputer. This dish was kebab.



As a result, Watson chose ingredients such as pork, chicken, strawberries, shiitake mushrooms, pineapple, apples, green onions, carrots, lemon, lime, mint, and curry. Needless to say, none of the cooks have prepared kebabs from such products so far.



It turned out that the cooked kebab is delicious, and the assessment was carried out by cooks who know how to evaluate the taste of cooked dishes.



It may well be that in the near future we will be able to read the recipe books compiled by the Watson supercomputer and be surprised at the unusual taste of the usual dishes.



Via theverge