🦕 Dinosaur Meat Tartare Made from an AI Chef

The recently opened Dubai restaurant Woohoo, which has an AI chef, has started serving "dinosaur meat tartare." The dish, created from a recipe by AI chef Aiman, consists of several types of raw meat and costs around €50.

The restaurant does not reveal the recipe, but claims that the ingredients are selected using AI analysis of extinct animal DNA and molecular cuisine techniques to simulate the presumed taste of herbivorous dinosaur meat. The menu states that this exotic dish includes duck confit, yogurt foam, nori crackers, and salsa.

AI chef Aiman is a large language model trained on thousands of recipes from around the world, data on ingredients, flavor combinations, cooking techniques, customer reviews, and culinary trends. The AI chef "works" together with a team of human chefs. They consult with the model and modify the recipe if the taste of the food does not appeal to them or to their guests.

Although the restaurant's co-founder, Ahmet Oytun Cakir, believes that over time AI "is going to create better dishes than humans," the project still gets a lot of skepticism.

"AI lacks feelings and memories; in short, it has no soul... It can't imbue it into food," Dubai-based Michelin-starred chef Mohamad Orfali insists.

Even so, customers at Woohoo restaurant who have tried the dinosaur tartare and other items on the menu found them "extraordinary."

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