Can AI come up with tasty and sustainable recipes? Indian researcher Ganesh Bagler developed an algorithm that combines ingredients into new dishes. Chef Manjit Gill tests how these AI-generated recipes measure up.
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00:00The recipe that's being tested out here has been generated by artificial intelligence
00:06with an algorithm called Ratatouille.
00:09Ganesh Bagla, a scientist and computational researcher in Delhi, India, developed the tool.
00:18Ratatouille is meant to be a creative counterpart of a chef.
00:23Something which captures the culinary legacies that we have created over a long period of time through an algorithm.
00:32Ganesh Bagla believes Ratatouille can help people discover new, creative ways of cooking
00:37and in the long term, tackle the challenge of feeding the global population in a sustainable way.
00:43Ratatouille can be made to generate recipes which are fitting to certain constraints.
00:49If I want recipes which are below a certain cost, imagine,
00:53or if I want a recipe which is having a certain calorific value, it will be able to generate that.
01:00Manjeet Gill, a popular Indian chef, is following an AI-created recipe.
01:05He wants to see how clear the instructions are and how it tastes.
01:09Italian chicken was the recipe suggested by Ratatouille.
01:12Chef Manjeet Gill gets to work. This is his first brush with computational gastronomy.
01:20Computational gastronomy is a new science that blends food with data and computing,
01:27thereby creating innovations in the areas of recipes, flavours, nutrition, health and sustainability.
01:35The Italian chicken is now ready.
01:38It's very good. Perfect. I think it's a great combination. Few ingredients, but fantastic.
01:46Manjeet Gill then takes the Turing test for chefs.
01:49Ganesh Bagla created this test to check whether AI-generated recipes
01:53can fool chefs and experts into thinking they were created by humans.
01:58So far, in 70% of cases, people couldn't tell that Ratatouille's recipes were created by AI.
02:05Chef Gill, however, managed to detect most of the AI-generated recipes.
02:11So, Chef, do you think my invention is going to put your job in jeopardy?
02:17Not at all. Not at all. It will make my job much easier.
02:22I will be able to be more productive and more precise with my recipes.
02:27I guess experiencing, at a sensorial level, a dish is something that only a human can do.
02:36An AI can never replace a chef, but a chef using AI will definitely replace a chef not using AI.
02:44Ganesh Bagla wants to bring more variation to Ratatouille so that the recipes meet certain criteria,
02:50like fulfilling specific nutritional requirements or producing a smaller carbon footprint.
02:57He's excited to share his invention with the world.