Chef Acknowledges ChatGPT Invented His Hit Pizza

“As a chef, I wouldn’t mix these ingredients ever on a pizza, but still, the mix of flavors was surprisingly good.”

A pizza recipe was created by a chef in Dubai using OpenAI‘s chatbot ChatGPT, and it turned out that the dish took off.

The international pizza business Dodo Pizza’s head of menu development, Spartak Arutyunyan, told the BBC that the resulting dish “was actually a huge hit, and it’s still on the menu.”

To truly capture the essence of Dubai’s food culture, ChatGPT went all out and recommended an unusual combination of ingredients.

As per the source, the recipe consists of “tahini sauce, Middle Eastern Za’atar herbs, Indian grilled paneer cheese, and Arab shawarma chicken.”

Put simply, the chatbot chose not to develop anything particularly original, but rather a cross-cultural hodgepodge of ingredients to be put together on a pizza. Either way, it appears to have touched a raw spot.
“As a chef, I wouldn’t mix these ingredients ever on a pizza, but still, the mix of flavors was surprisingly good,” Arutyunyan stated to the BBC.

The Rejects on the Menu

Some ChatGPT recipes, such a pie with blueberries and breakfast cereal or a pizza with spaghetti and strawberries on top, were eliminated, according to Arutyunyan.

We’ve already seen a number of sloppy attempts to profit on the buzz surrounding AI in the food industry. For example, BetterBlends, a questionable “bespoke smoothie shop” in San Francisco, closed its doors last year because their highly customized smoothie recipe business failed to gain traction.

Dallas-based taco shop also experimented with generative AI, with similarly contradictory outcomes.
The BBC was informed by Venecia Willis, the culinary director of Velvet Taco, that ChatGPT generated some “funky combinations.”

“I think AI is a great tool to use when you’re in a bit of a creative slump, to get the brain going again  ‘that combination might actually work, let’s try it,'” she stated.

“The AI can suggest something maybe I wouldn’t have thought of.”

The employment of AI chatbots in the kitchen was met with much greater skepticism from other specialists.
According to linguistics professor Emily Bender, a vocal opponent of AI, “if you can get ChatGPT to spit out something that looks like a recipe, then it’s because there are recipes on the internet,” she told the BBC.