> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data
wow, if you feed a bunch of burger recipes into an AI, it's able to output burger recipes. really groundbreaking research.
> Beyond rediscovery, the model generates new burgers with varying degrees of novelty, illustrated by two representative recipes, the Delicious Burger 1 with SDS = 3 and the Delicious Burger 2 with SDS = 6, which exhibit progressively more distinct ingredient profiles while retaining familiar burger structure
"novelty" is doing some heavy lifting here.
their "Delicious Burger 1" as shown is 151g (5.3oz) of meat, 75g each of tomato and pickle, 50 grams of onion...supported by a paltry 30 grams of bun. that thing is going to fall apart the second you pick it up.
that made me wonder if, when they conducted the taste test, did they actually follow the AI's recipe, which led to this:
> Our AI-generated recipes specify ingredients and quantities only, and do not include the processing or cooking steps needed to prepare the actual burgers. We therefore engage an executive chef to translate each ingredient list into standardized preparation, cooking, and assembly protocols, including ingredient handling, cutting, seasoning, cooking method, and burger assembly
huh would you look at that, I'm shocked to learn that hiding behind the "AI demonstrates amazing results" headline there's a "well obviously we also hired a human expert to fill in the gaps".
this is less of a scientific paper and more Stanford running a full-employment program for executive chefs in the Bay Area.
> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data
wow, if you feed a bunch of burger recipes into an AI, it's able to output burger recipes. really groundbreaking research.
> Beyond rediscovery, the model generates new burgers with varying degrees of novelty, illustrated by two representative recipes, the Delicious Burger 1 with SDS = 3 and the Delicious Burger 2 with SDS = 6, which exhibit progressively more distinct ingredient profiles while retaining familiar burger structure
"novelty" is doing some heavy lifting here.
their "Delicious Burger 1" as shown is 151g (5.3oz) of meat, 75g each of tomato and pickle, 50 grams of onion...supported by a paltry 30 grams of bun. that thing is going to fall apart the second you pick it up.
that made me wonder if, when they conducted the taste test, did they actually follow the AI's recipe, which led to this:
> Our AI-generated recipes specify ingredients and quantities only, and do not include the processing or cooking steps needed to prepare the actual burgers. We therefore engage an executive chef to translate each ingredient list into standardized preparation, cooking, and assembly protocols, including ingredient handling, cutting, seasoning, cooking method, and burger assembly
huh would you look at that, I'm shocked to learn that hiding behind the "AI demonstrates amazing results" headline there's a "well obviously we also hired a human expert to fill in the gaps".
this is less of a scientific paper and more Stanford running a full-employment program for executive chefs in the Bay Area.