Gadgetory

this isn't your average fish and chips and not just because it's made with raw snapper and plantains remember what's in the IBM supercomputer that won jeopardy two years ago yeah well Watson is a chef now we started this project about two years ago we wanted to see if computers could be creative if they could not only reason about the world as it is but try to create new new products things that I've never seen before that I've never been seen before and that are also valuable this is really a collaboration between the human and the computer there's that constant interaction with the system you know you you choose you choose what you want to make because you have to kind of direct the computer in a certain direction and then the computer gives you suggestions it tells you oh you chose chicken chicken is used a lot in maybe Singaporean cuisine do you want to make it Singaporean dish and then it's going to give you a list of dishes that you find in Singaporean cuisine so that's that's that interaction that happens all the time then the system about what makes the system creative is that it's able also to assess the products that it creates so once it generates combinations of ingredients it can tell you what combinations are going to be novel and surprising by comparing them to existing recipes and you can also predict the pleasantness of the dishes it can predict how pleasant the dish will smell and taste when you when you start combining ingredients the number of possible combinations grows exponentially if you have a recipe with maybe 10 ingredients it's not rare to have something like a trillion or a quadrillion of possible recipes using those 10 types of ingredients of course this is way more than any human could possibly think of who are not even true not even to mention try what makes transitive computing different is that the computers are able to to learn new things and reason about the world as it is and also now we see that they're able to create new products that have never been seen before we have a lot of ideas about what we could do with this technology we're here at South by Southwest precisely to learn what people expect from a cognitive system from cognitive computing and figure out then what we can do next to help them in their daily lives