Recently, there has been a ChatGPT whirlwind around the world. Bionic chatbots can answer any questions and even communicate like friends, everyone watching with wide eyes as their industry will be transformed by this hurricane. The same is true in the catering circle, artificial intelligence has long been quietly around us, changing the form of catering. Today, this video will help you sort out what impact AI Chat GBT has had on the catering industry.
Before we start talking about the impact of ChatGPT, let's talk about the fact that AI has not suddenly arrived in recent years, but has slowly affected the restaurant industry with a slow and precise pace. Many high-tech companies and startups have begun to launch new services through AI technology. Here are a few areas I've curated AI to date, and I'm starting to contribute.
1.AI recipes
What I want to talk to you about is AI recipes. This is arguably the most entry-level project. When I was testing chat GPT myself, my first question about cooking I asked him: What do you think is the best egg dish? He gave me a recipe for the classic hair ornament Ou Peony. But before the advent of Chat GBTT, Watson, the artificial intelligence of the American tech giant IBM, published a recipe book in 2015. It is divided into chapters of healing deliciousness, surprising creativity, and the coordinated operation of ingredients. This recipe book mainly hopes to provide chefs with a more unlimited vision and use AI to collect information about dishes on the Internet. In addition to this exquisite cuisine on the cover, Watson also tries to break through the limitations of the human brain and find new and bizarre cooking combinations, such as Spanish macaroons and shrimp and croissants.
Spanish macaroons
2. Research and development of innovative ingredients
The second type I think is very interesting, and it must be done by AI with more computing power than the human brain, do you remember Beyond Meat, which caused a whirlwind a few years ago? Instant meat is the key product of modern food science research and development. In fact, it is not just vegetarian meat that replaces meat, there is now a new food company called NATCO. The company's aim is to remove the creatures completely. The catering chain is not just about slaughter, but also about the hope that even products such as custard can be replaced by innovative ingredients. NAPCO hopes to combine various substances through different algorithms to combine into plant-based alternatives to replace all animal products, so that end consumers can eat and feel the same food. At present, they have launched Knot Milk, which replaces milk, and Knot Burger, which also replaces beef.
Vegetarian meat
3.AI type of catering
Create a sustainable industry. Improving people's lives with science and technology is the direction of the joint efforts of all scientific and technological people. In agriculture, the biggest challenge is how to solve famine. This company, Mineral, is a company that received huge investment from Google. The purpose of the company is to understand and improve crops from a nanoscale perspective through technology.
According to their website, if humans do not change the mode of producing crops, by 2050, in order to feed the rising number of human beings in the world, forests will be cut down, and global warming will rise by 2 degrees, reaching the tipping point of warming. Through AI technology, we can collect and sort out problems in depth and understand the operation of soil crop growth. It may seem abstract to say this, but we can understand this company as Miyamoto Musashi who is grading the soil and cultivating the field, using his body, mind, and soul to grow crops in every possible way and save the global village. And the hoe in his hand is AI technology. Do you say tall? There's really no higher goal than that. After listening to the tall application, let's return to real life.
Miyamoto Musashi AI painting generation
4. Personalized catering design
Amazon has a home feature, AI - Alexa. As long as you buy Amazon's speaker home device, you can install many small Alexa functions through your computer. One of them is Alexa Meal Planner. It's as simple as telling Alexa I want pizza tomorrow and he'll put him on your itinerary. Or you can say I want to eat healthier tonight, and Alexa will recommend you some healthy cooking options. You can also ask him to arrange for the whole family, such as a dinner proposal for 5 people. And this meal planner can also work with other gadgets to complete more meal arrangements, such as grocery shopping arrangement menu calorie calculation. These modern people are very particular about the applications required for efficiency. Of course, the most important thing behind all these services is to collect your data. Alexa will give you a series of personal recommendations based on your preferences, health goals, and dining habits, improving the quality of life and making manufacturers profitable.
5.ChefGPT
Build a ChefGPT-based website that lets you enter what ingredients are in your fridge, how much to portion, what cooking equipment you have at home, and then suggest recipes based on what you give. And the great thing is how easy it is to choose a recipe. Since its launch in January, the site has amassed more than 40,000 users and generated more than 35,000 recipes. Over time, ChefGPT can push you recipes you might like to eat, even before you know what ingredients you have at home.
After talking about all the above examples of AI going deep into the catering circle, everyone may have the same problem in their hearts as me.
Is it possible that chefs will one day be replaced by machines? I think it's still very early, and it's obvious why cooking requires actual people to operate. In fact, before ChefGPT was officially released, the New York Times used a series of Thanksgiving recipes produced by ChefGPT to test. After a round of testing with many people, they came to the conclusion that food is not easy to make, beautiful and not necessarily delicious. It's not hard to produce a recipe, it's hard to have too many details in the process of execution, and personal preferences and whims are mixed in. Many small details that are often overlooked in cooking will become the key to whether the final product is delicious or not. Many of these things can't be found on the Internet, even in books, and ChefGPT can't scrape them out to provide you with good advice. So jokingly, the chef hides a hand after not only to prevent people, but also to prevent AI.
Chat GPT is limited by its own limitations in collecting information and providing the right amount of content, so it can't make it 100% delicious, let alone how to make the food human. Cooking is a combination of reason and emotion, something that machines may never understand. It's as if Michelin restaurants like to add sensory experiences to cooking rituals, or take down a well-known dish and reassemble it. Therefore, cooking will always need a human element.
Which AI project are you more interested in? Want to know more about technology changing the restaurant industry?