MMmmMM This Vietnamese Apple Kabab is to die for...give my compliments to the Master Chef

[nicehat]

 

Sorry sir, the Master Chef you speak of is none other than IBM's Watson, and he's not a people person. 

 

For the SXSW music festival, IBM has come up with it's "Cognitive Cooking" project, where they enlist the services of four prominent chefs to work with Watson, a supercomputer that will access a database of tens of thousands of recipes and ingredient combinations to conceive dishes that the regular foodie has probably never thought of.

 

"If you were to look inside the system that is running in the IBM cloud you would see a system that is trained on 35,000 different recipes, as if it was digesting a giant cookbook," said Steve Abrams, Director of Watson Life at IBM. "From reading that cookbook it has learnt an awful lot about different ingredients that are often used in different cuisines, and the ingredients that are often paired together."

 

Abrams estimates that the ingredient pairings by watson into the quintillions (1 quintillion = 1 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000). This process is what takes Watson's exploits into uncharted territory, even for professional chefs.

 

For the Vietnamese Apple Kabab, the supercomputer doesnt look at ingredient pairings like human chefs do. Instead, it looks for chemical compositons and those that go best together. For example for the apple kabab, identifying a common flavor compound found in both pork and apple, working out whether combining the two was likely to produce a pleasant sensation, and inventing a recipe with an emphasis on the unusual and the so far untried. 

 

 

Other recipes conjured by Watson: 

coconut-flavored Caribbean Snapper Fish & Chips 

Belgian Bacon Pudding

Austrian Chocolate Burrito with lean ground beef and two ounces of dark chocolate

 

 

http://time.com/12912/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454684,00.asp

http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-sxsw-food-truck/31173/

[qwertywarrior]

move to off topic?

[The_Strict_Nein]

No, it's tech related. As tech related as something like a new mechanical limb or something like that

[SirRoderick]

move to off topic?

It's a supercomputer, We'll allow it

[brownninja97]

I got a warning a while back for talking about a kit kay shop opening in japan, they make the kitkats with 3d printers and i still got a warning, im not mad that i got a warning but this should be moved.

[Rorgash]

I got a warning a while back for talking about a kit kay shop opening in japan, they make the kitkats with 3d printers and i still got a warning, im not mad that i got a warning but this should be moved.

You shouldn't mistreat others just because you were mistreated

 

very cool tho, would like to see what more it can come up with and how successful it will be.

[LifesCompanion]

It took me a while to realise this is tech related lol 

 

But this is freaking awesome *cough*SKYNET*cough* 

[brownninja97]

You shouldn't mistreat others just because you were mistreated

 

very cool tho, would like to see what more it can come up with and how successful it will be.

I trying to say it shouldnt be a double standard, if one person gets their thread moved for a reason and if another person makes the same mistake then the same thing should happen.

 

At any rate its interesting to see what happens regarding that technology.

[Rorgash]

I trying to say it shouldnt be a double standard, if one person gets their thread moved for a reason and if another person makes the same mistake then the same thing should happen.

 

At any rate its interesting to see what happens regarding that technology.

thats the thing tho, if you got beaten as a kid you are saying that all kids should be beaten

 

2 wrongs do not make it right

[brownninja97]

thats the thing tho, if you got beaten as a kid you are saying that all kids should be beaten

I suggest you read the rules of this forum, then you would under what i mean. Ill let the mod team deal with the situation, they have the powers and i trust them to use it well.