Meet the researchers bringing bizarre AI creations to life

"The larger goal of the project is to democratize AI for the public. Currently, the creative usage of AI is within the reach of AI practitioners," computer scientist Pinar Yanardag, the MIT postdoctoral researcher who founded the group, told Futurism. Most of the projects used machine learning algorithms that, upon being trained with thousands of examples of pizzas and perfume recipes, spat out unique creations that were sort of like the thing they were supposed to create, but just a little bit off. Often, the results were outlandish and alien. For instance, several pizzas called for fictional ingredients or skipped crucial steps in the baking process.