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As someone with a few allergies, I effectively had to throw away and replace a third to half of the ingredients in every Hello Fresh meal. That's the #1 reason

As someone with a few allergies, I effectively had to throw away and replace a third to half of the ingredients in every Hello Fresh meal. That's the #1 reason I stopped using it. An AI should be able to know what to substitute to make the whole kit edible for me.

gffrd 3y ago
Are you thinking "Rather than having a cook compose recipes with 1000 variations based on permutations of allergies, just produce one recipe with intended outcome, and let an AI figure out the variants"? How do you train an AI on taste? Would a chef state what's allowable for a recipe? "This one you can sub the soy out, but this one falls apart without it"
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  > How do you train an AI on taste? You keep shoveling piles of recipes at it, and as long as most of the recipes are positively tasteful (as opposed to just randomly generated, or worse, engineered to suck out of spite), the AI should eventually pick up on taste in general.
  - gffrd 3y ago
    One thing I’m curious about … Having done a lot of user research, sometimes the most important things to a person aren’t stated, or even consciously known. If I’m shopping for chocolate chip cookies, they’re a proxy for another need: hunger, yes, but also emotions: wanting to feel taken care of, missing a place, etc. If chocolate chip cookies are unavailable, I’m not now considering snickerdoodles or shopping chocolate bars; I’m shopping for the feel: maybe it’s pie, maybe soup. I’m interested to see if the AIs we build will have the ability to identify this, so when someone says “I want a steak frites” the AI doesn’t strictly recommend steak recipes—“they’re asking for steak”—but realized the constellation of what the asker is actually asking for—they’re asking for a recipe that reminds them of when they lived in that apartment in that city X years ago. It will be fun to see what’s possible …

gffrd 3y ago

Are you thinking "Rather than having a cook compose recipes with 1000 variations based on permutations of allergies, just produce one recipe with intended outcome, and let an AI figure out the variants"? How do you train an AI on taste? Would a chef state what's allowable for a recipe? "This one you can sub the soy out, but this one falls apart without it"

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> How do you train an AI on taste? You keep shoveling piles of recipes at it, and as long as most of the recipes are positively tasteful (as opposed to just randomly generated, or worse, engineered to suck out of spite), the AI should eventually pick up on taste in general.
- gffrd 3y ago
  One thing I’m curious about … Having done a lot of user research, sometimes the most important things to a person aren’t stated, or even consciously known. If I’m shopping for chocolate chip cookies, they’re a proxy for another need: hunger, yes, but also emotions: wanting to feel taken care of, missing a place, etc. If chocolate chip cookies are unavailable, I’m not now considering snickerdoodles or shopping chocolate bars; I’m shopping for the feel: maybe it’s pie, maybe soup. I’m interested to see if the AIs we build will have the ability to identify this, so when someone says “I want a steak frites” the AI doesn’t strictly recommend steak recipes—“they’re asking for steak”—but realized the constellation of what the asker is actually asking for—they’re asking for a recipe that reminds them of when they lived in that apartment in that city X years ago. It will be fun to see what’s possible …