How Google's artificial intelligence is baking chocolate chip cookies - Tech News The Star Online

Jeanette Harris would have never put two teaspoons of cardamom in a recipe for a dozen cookies. The spice is strong, polarising and typically associated with India and Asian cooking, not gluten-free chocolate chip cookies. "Humans have internal biases about these sorts things, especially cooks and bakers, we have these ideas that these are the tried and true ways," Harris said while she combined ingredients for her cookies during a cooking demo Monday at her bakery in Garfield. Two teaspoons of cardamom is not one of those tried and true ways. But when an artificial intelligence designed to optimise parts for airplanes and spaceships told her two teaspoons of cardamom was the right amount, she listened.