Are AI-created recipes hard to swallow?

Chefs are increasingly using AI to dream up new food combinations, but the results are mixed.

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"We asked [popular AI chatbot] ChatGPT to create a recipe - the best pizza for Dubai," says Spartak Arutyunyan, who heads menu development for the city’s branch of restaurant and delivery chain Dodo Pizza.

"And it did create a recipe. We launched it, it was actually a huge hit, and it's still on the menu.”

With 90% of Dubai's three million people being immigrants, "there's so many cultures here", says Mr Arutyunyan. "Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos, Arab people, European guys."

He asked ChatGPT to come up with a pizza that represented that cultural mix. Its response was a topping comprising Arab shawarma chicken, Indian grilled paneer cheese, Middle Eastern Za'atar herbs, and tahini sauce.

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