- A small team at Google used artificial intelligence and a technique called "Bayesian Optimisation" trying to design the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
- The team gave a computer nothing except a series of ingredients and told it to bake a cookie.
- After two months, Google teamed up with Bourke St Bakery to then cook the ultimate smart cookie and Business Insider had a taste.
Can AI cook? That was the question a small research team at Google set out to answer last year.
Using artificial intelligence and a technique called "Bayesian Optimisation", the team spent two months trying to design the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
The team gave a computer a series of ingredients, without any other information, and told it to simply bake a cookie.
"And the first batch was terrible," Anil Sabharwal, VP of Comms and Photos at Google, said during a press event in Sydney today.
"But after that it started to get a little better… and after 59 batches they actually perfected the cookie."
Google Australia teamed up with Bourke St Bakery to then cook the ultimate smart cookie, and Business Insider had a taste.
Our verdict? Not great.
Instead of a crumbly or gooey biscuit, the cookie tore off with a texture somewhere between a cake and plastic.
And instead of a sweet, vanilla flavour, it was overpowered by a harsh cardamom taste.
Its only saving grace — the chocolate chips.
At least we know bakers won't be out of a job when the robots take over. Yet.
Here's the recipe Google took two months to perfect to try for yourself.
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