Inspired by pandemic baking, Sara Robinson, who works on AI for Google Cloud, started working with artificial intelligence to create inventive new recipes like the Cakie—an original 50% cake, 50% cookie hybrid. The recipe calls for a few simple ingredients like sugar, butter, flour and an egg, plus a few others, but it's the way that the ingredients are measured and combined that creates the unique taste and texture. According to Robinson, "It is yummy. And it strangely tastes like what I’d imagine would happen if I told a machine to make a cake cookie hybrid."
The project is continually being improved with bigger sets of data, tools and models to provide insight into what makes a cookie a cookie, a cake a cake and what makes breads breads.
As part of the project, a new hybrid recipe for a "breakie" (a bread-cookie) was also created.
AI-Created Hybrid Recipes
The "Cakie" is a Cake-Cookie Made with Machine Learning
Trend Themes
1. AI-created Hybrid Recipes - The use of artificial intelligence in recipe creation is disrupting the food industry by exploring unique taste and texture combinations.
2. Data-driven Recipe Development - Applying machine learning algorithms to culinary experimentation provides a more data-driven approach to recipe development and could revolutionize the way we innovate in the food industry.
3. Innovative Recipe Hybridization - AI-generated recipe hybrids such as Cakie and Breakie opens up new opportunities for reimagining traditional dishes and exploring new flavor combinations.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - The food and beverage industry stands to benefit from AI-driven recipe creation by providing consumers with unique, never-before-seen food products.
2. Technology - As AI-made recipe hybrids gain more traction, the technology industry can capitalize on this trend by creating more advanced machine learning algorithms and platforms specifically catered to culinary innovation.
3. Hospitality - Hotels and restaurants can provide customers with unique culinary experiences that are exclusively composed of AI-made recipes, fostering loyalty and attracting new customers.