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Machine learning has entered the kitchen, and I for one welcome our AI culinary overlords

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Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have both opined about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, with Musk famously comparing it to "summoning a demon," and Hawking suggesting it could end mankind. But when they said that, I don't think they were talking about an undercooked chicken leg. That's right, AI is making its presence felt in all parts of life, and nowhere is this more pronounced than in the kitchen. Today, MIT announced it had created an artificial intelligence program that could look at a picture of a food item -- like a cookie -- and tell you its constituent ingredients. Pic2Recipe works by returning ten recipes that it feels most closely represent the photo of the dish.