Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

  • PorkRollWobbly
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    362 years ago

    Another way to look at this is that AI figured out a recipe that would end hunger for the rest of our lives.

    • Bakkoda
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      62 years ago

      We’re not even gonna get close to something like Rokos Basilisk. We’re just gonna Idiocracy this shit aren’t we?

      This one goes on your ear, this one goes in your mouth and this one goes in your butt. Wait. Ok this one…

      • @[email protected]
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        AI obedient to a dictator, paperclip maximiser, AI that is arguably benevolent.

        Those are our plausible long-term choices. Yeah, the second looks most likely right now.

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    This is actually hilarious, but unfortunately we can’t have stuff like this because at least one person will lack common sense and will actually die due to making something like this

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I guess we don’t really. Though personally I could have a lot of fun entering some weird combinations of ingredients and then cooking whatever it comes up with (as long as it’s safe to eat ofc). As I said, it’s funny and maybe sometimes useful. But it’s probably better for the world if they stop doing this

      • exscape
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        62 years ago

        Because it might work if you don’t enter that your leftover ingredients are bleach and ammonia.

        • stopthatgirl7OP
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          72 years ago

          It shouldn’t even let you enter in stuff like that, since it’s not food.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 years ago

          If it can’t discern bleach from ingredients, the actual recipes are probably quite bad too. Another example recipe in the article suggests it’s just throwing any ingredient you give it into a random recipe, substituting in literally anything indiscriminately. So it doesn’t work for the purpose of generating useful recipes.

          Fun automated madlibs game tho

  • @[email protected]
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    972 years ago

    "A spokesperson for the supermarket said they were disappointed to see “a small minority have tried to use the tool inappropriately and not for its intended purpose”.

    oh come on, it’s predictable and hilarious

      • @[email protected]
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        272 years ago

        True, but it’d be funny to instead get “HA! Our beta testers weren’t demented enough to try THAT! Thanks for helping improve our product, everybody!”

  • 👁️👄👁️
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    572 years ago

    This big AI rush is going to figure out soon that LLMs are horrible for verifying any sort of factual accuracy.

    • Raltoid
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      Part of the problem is that they slap “AI” on everything, and many people think it’s actually intelligent, and not what amounts to the old school chat bots with more power.

  • Toad_the_Fungus
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    52 years ago

    there are things that we absolutely do not need computers to do for us and this is one of them

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    This thing (saveymeal-bot.co.nz) is hilarious. I think I could genuinely use it to finish up leftovers and things that are about to go off, but for right now it’s given me “boiling water poured over toasted bread, inspired by contemporary dance” and “weetabix and oatmeal with toothpaste and soap”. Fun for now, but I might use it for real at dinner time.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 years ago

    Who’d guess misusing things can be harmful? Next, we chop off a finger to prove a kitchen knife can be dangerous.