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Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson
- quinndupont 11y agoI'm excited to buy a copy. It looks beautiful, and in addition to the interesting recipes there looks to be a decent discussion of how the computation works (at a high-level, conceptual level; not code).
- FreakyT 11y agoI'm glad they decided to expand the content of their original work into a full-fledged cookbook! Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing how some of these taste.
- madcaptenor 11y agoJust heard about this book on the Sporkful podcast on the way into work this morning.
- gd2 11y agoI try a byte of that.
- pesenti 11y agoI have read the book and tried Watson food a few times. The book does not hide the fact that the Watson recipes have been curated/modified by a real Chef (the book usually tells you about the major modifications). So you could ask: how is it really different from randomly generated stuff? My experience is that there is something really distinctive about Watson food: a very unusual association of a handful of tastes that a regular chef wouldn't have thought about but that works surprisingly well.
- ta9090 11y agoUtter marketing fluff. Watson cannot do simple arithmetic, and by extension certainly does not know how to cook, nor can it learn to understand any cooking technique. I know folks want to expect a lot from Watson but this is simply not realistic.
- jlas 11y agoI think the interesting part here is that it seems Watson is making recipe suggestions based on Machine Learning (read: statistical) analysis of other recipes.
- mark_l_watson 11y agoI do this in my cookingspace.com web app: I use the statistics from about 100K recipes to know which ingredients tend to be most often used together, and I use these relationships to suggest extra ingredients for recipes.
- jlas 11y agoReally cool, the web interface needs work, but the idea is great.
- kitd 11y agoWatson cannot do simple arithmetic, and by extension certainly does not know how to cook Why should cooking be an extension of arithmetic?
- ta9090 11y agoWith regard to proportion of ingredients (e.g., acid vs. oil, salt vs. sugar, regular seasonings), surface area, heat transfer over time, and the like, there is some basic math intrinsic to cooking.
- vonklaus 11y ago> Watson cannot do simple arithmetic Can you provide some sources? I assumed that if Watson could win at Jeopardy, it would be able to do simple math problems. Edit: I am not sure what you mean about Watson's inability to do arithmetic. "The two major goals for IBM and RPI are to improve Watson's mathematical ability and to aid its recognition and interpretation of new words." http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-supercomputer-rpi/26038/ http://www.gizmag.com/ibm-watson-supercomputer-rpi/26038/ All accounts seem to allude to Watson's ability to infer natural language and problem solve, including arithmetic. I have not found anything explicitly saying it can not perform simple arithmetic.
- joshuaheard 11y agoTake a food combination chart, feed it into an algorithm with a randomizer and grouping parameters, have a chef pick out some good ones, and voila, a computer-generated cookbook to use as publicity for your computer and cooking school. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Food_Combining_Chart.png http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Food_Combining_Chart....
- avmich 11y agohttp://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1986/AAAI86-044.pdf http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1986/AAAI86-044.pdf Apparently cooking with AI has some successes in its history.