Poisoning Late at Night, AI Below for You to Eat?

By Super Neuro

If you are still struggling over whether to order takeout, I advise you not to read this article anymore.

Because your AI robot is baking a delicious pizza, filled with your favorite charred bacon, fatty sausage, and plenty of cheese, with a first-class crust. And such a pizza does not require a Michelin chef or a reservation at the door of an Internet celebrity restaurant, you can enjoy it at home.

No chef required for delicious food

Let me digress a little. There is an animated film in Citigroup called "Heavenly Gourmet Food". In the film, there is a scene where a huge amount of food rains down from the clouds in the sky.

The protagonist of this story is a small town scientific geek who is full of creative ideas, but for a long time, he has been disliked by the whole town because of his immature and impractical inventions.

The residents of the small town have only been eating sardines, so the protagonist is committed to making a food machine. Due to an accident, the food-making machine he invented floats into the air, and accidentally realizes its special function: it can magically obtain water from the clouds, generate food after some changes, and then fall to the ground.

More importantly, because of the continuous supply of clouds, it can create food continuously. As long as the computer issues instructions, any kind of food can be obtained.

From then on, the people in the small town said goodbye to eating single sardines and enjoyed the feast that came from the sky.

Of course, this is an animated film, so there are definitely some illogical places because of the plot. But there are also many interesting settings, such as the ice cream snow scene, the jelly palace, and the out-of-control spaghetti tornado later.

In reality, if you want to have something good happen to you, it is probably just a daydream.

In real life, we rely on ingredients and chefs to have a good meal. But recently, many people have begun to study how to use AI to remove the necessity of "chefs" in a good meal.

Robot Pizza Chef

Last year, Zume, a pizza company in San Francisco, began using robots to make pizza for customers. It can currently produce 400 pizzas per hour, far exceeding the speed of humans.

Moreover, the company also has a set of intelligent unmanned delivery solutions.

They use intelligent planning to find the best delivery route.

Moreover, AI can analyze and discover the patterns in a large number of orders based on the data of user consumption behavior, and thus predict the time and place where the next order may occur.

During the delivery process, the nearly finished pizza will be placed in an intelligent automatic delivery vehicle and delivered according to the user's needs.

Using a GPS-based prediction algorithm, the delivery truck's oven will be turned on 4 minutes before reaching the destination to start baking the pizza to complete the final steps and ensure that when it arrives at the destination, the pizza you unpack is freshly baked and hot.

Machine-automated production and optimal delivery service ensure that users can get delicious pizza in the shortest time possible.

If you don’t trust AI, you can also let AI supervise

Another pizza giant called Domino's, which you may have eaten, also started using AI to monitor the quality of pizza in 2017.

This AI system is called DRU AI Pizza Checker, and it is mainly used to solve customer complaints, such as wrong pizza ingredients, baking errors and poor quality, which can get timely feedback and improvements from it.

Its main body is a camera and a sensor, which are placed to monitor the preparation and cooking process, using AI to capture and analyze pizza photos to ensure the correct production process to meet consumer satisfaction.

In addition, the system will process information intelligently. The store will receive quality data of all pizza orders, and the customer will also receive a photo of the pizza.

Domino's itself claims that the system can complete analysis and reporting within 3 seconds, which effectively improves the quality of pizza production.

Although these robots have mastered the steps of making pizza and are even more skilled than humans, and AI has already intervened at the consumer level, basically all they can do is replace the complicated labor and make recipes according to the chef's design.

Can AI be made smarter? For example, what would happen if we let AI make recipes?

You can also let AI come up with pizza recipes

According to a report in September this year, AI that can generate recipes has finally arrived.

Pinar Yanardag, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT Media Lab, and his friends developed an AI model that can generate new pizza recipes by combining hundreds of pizza recipes on the Internet.

This allows AI to leap from a waiter and supervisor to an absolute chef.

The key to the model's ability to learn recipes across the entire network is that it has a powerful text generation network module - textgenrnn, which is often used to generate phrases from text datasets.

The research team validated the AI model’s usefulness by testing the AI-generated recipe with the chef at a local pizza restaurant.

The results show that AI can indeed create many new recipes that would not appear in conventional methods, such as blueberry spinach feta pizza, bacon avocado peach pizza, etc.

However, since it is difficult for AI to analyze human taste perception, adding human perception of different ingredients and seasonings into the recipe will be somewhat unsatisfactory, such as the lack of some meat, sauces and cheese.

However, the model also made a lot of pizza recipes that sounded strange but tasted good, and even got the chef's approval, such as a pizza with shrimp, jam and Italian sausage.

But according to their research, if these recipes are to be turned into delicious food on the table, they still need to be made manually, because their plan does not involve the production steps.

The AI model is only responsible for providing the recipe, while the chefs are responsible for processing and baking. They hope to show that AI will not only not take away human jobs, but will become a good assistant to humans.

Hand over the entire process to AI?

I know you have a wild idea: what if you combined a robot that makes pizza and an AI that creates recipes?

Emmm, for us, the spectators and pizza eaters, we should just wait quietly for the scientists to combine them.

Also, please don’t develop a robot that can eat pizza, otherwise, we will just be spectators the whole time.

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