[NPR] AI can generate recipes that can be deadly. Food bloggers are not happy

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ā€œGoogle’s telling people to put gasoline in their pasta," he says.

Oh my. To describe AI as ā€œartificialā€ is correct. To describe AI as ā€œ intelligentā€ is misleading and even dangerous. No guardrails for accuracy or safety at this stage, whatever the topic.

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I’ve always wanted an accurate method for inputting all the ingredients I have on hand and being offered (good, workable) recipes that employ them. I guess I will continue to wait.

Side note: I had no idea how much work went into the recipes on The Woks of Life. I guess that explains why they’ve always worked so well for me!

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Another way the AI overlords will be our demise.

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I thought that was the most interesting part of the article.

I think it may be possible to use EYB that way, to some degree

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Technology such as computer software and AI are only as good as those programming, creating it…and the information used. AI has uses but I wouldn’t trust it to make leaps of judgment it simply doesn’t have.

AI can’t taste, sense or see things…so humans will always win out. Part of cooking is of course the recipe…and it might do okay, or not. The other parts or processes include sensing and seeing things, until you have the recipe down rote. Does that look right? I remember my grandmother and mom often saying, you have to keep an eye on it, and don’t over cook it because you can’t go back. AI can’t do either. AI also can’t taste test anything it creates…so pass. There’s also a reason why most or many recipes are vetted and tried out, at least those published.

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AI is basically a word/phrase counting program.
it finds all the internet stuff with specific keywords, then counts the word/phrases in each source, thence deducting the ā€˜the truth is made by the highest word/phrase count’

. . . . as more and more examples of ā€œAIā€ continue to point out. . . .

Actually, it is more than that.

Given that AI-generated books recommend deadly mushrooms, this shouldn’t surprise anyone.

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I am not sure if you are serious or just joking but if it is serious you are completely wrong

That is why I have never had a fail with them. Same holds true for me with RecipeTinEats where she also does extensive/obsessive testing.

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Oh, I had no reason to trust that site. I will take your word and check it out.

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Im really skeptical of this. Any decent program would exclude non-food items like gasoline and bleach from potential inclusion in recipes. seems like brainless clickbait to me.