With AI taking the world by storm, it can be said that sci-fi novels and movies weren't wrong about its adoption and the subsequent rise. What if there were other books and films that showcased a vision of artificial intelligence under the guise of a different genre? But first, "The content expressed here are my opinions and not hard facts." Now that's out of the way; I can share my controversial opinion in a risk-free and carefree manner. Could I please get a drum roll first?

Art has long been considered the exclusive domain of human creativity. But turns out machines can do a lot more in the creative realm than we humans can imagine. In October 2018, Christie's sold first AI-generated painting for $432,500. Titled Edmond de Belamy, the artwork was expected to sell for $10,000. Obvious art created this masterpiece using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) algorithm by feeding the system with 15,000 portraits created between the 14th and 20th century.

IBM Watson and Daybreaker hosted the World's First Cognitive Dance Party in San Francisco by using Watson Tone Analyzer, Watson Personality Insights, Chef Watson and Watson Beat. With Personality Insights API Daybreak was able to base the colors, music playlists, kick-off fitness session, healthy breakfast, and intention card all on the each attendees' personality. Tone Analyzer drove the color of a rising cognitive sun based on sentiment analysis of tweets of around the country. While Watson Beat created new riffs using inputs from pianist ELEW, using one or several of his musical filters. Even the Breakfast was courtesy of Chef Watson, which featured unexpected ingredient combinations, tailored again to attendee personality.

IBM's Watson computer has many talents. It discussed music with Bob Dylan, beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy! and even ran a food truck. Now, the artificial intelligence project has picked up another skill: bartending. Working with foodies and chefs from Bon Apétit magazine and the Institute of Culinary Education, IBM programmers put the software through culinary school. The project, known as "Chef Watson," generates original recipes based on ingredients a user selects, Christopher Trout writes for Engadget. "The system doesn't look at ingredients the same way chefs do," software engineer and chef Florian Pinel, who helped IBM develop Chef Watson, says in a video showcasing the cloud-based cook.

I know this isn't Instagram, but fuck it. I'm writing an article about what I had for lunch. If you haven't tuned out already, don't worry. Earlier today, I attended a press event for IBM's Watson at London's iconic Wimbledon tennis grounds. Sandwiching the presentations and panels (pun 100-percent intended) was a'cognitive breakfast' and a'cognitive lunch.' Say what?

Food is a powerful force. As a former nurse, someone who's volunteered feeding hungry children in some of the poorest regions of the world and a healthcare technology executive, I've seen firsthand food's power to bring people together and help them to learn from each other. So last month at Mobile World Congress when I had the opportunity to sit down to an intimate meal cooked by Michelin-starred chef Carles Abellán and talk augmented intelligence with other experts, I jumped at the invitation. The meal began with an unexpected yet welcome combination of peach bloody mary and oysters, and ended with a strawberry cream cake. Throughout the meal, we shared a lively discussion on technology and how it's affecting our world today. Back in the kitchen, an unseen guest aided the chef to bring the unique flavors -- and vibrant discussions -- to life: Chef Watson.

Collectively, those food stuffs might not sound like the most obvious combination of ingredients to satiate one's palette. Yet it turns out they do work together in a satisfying enough manner, at least for some taste buds. Chef Watson, that's who, or rather, what -- if you want to get technical about it. The Chef hat is just one application gaining more mainstream attraction for IBM Watson, a ground-breaking cognitive system so far more synonymous with ambitions for revolutionizing healthcare and education rather than anything as basic as kitchen recipes. Watson stepped into the national spotlight in 2011 with its winning performance on the decades-old TV game show Jeopardy as an artificially intelligent computer able to recognize and respond to questions posed in natural language rather than tech speak or code.

Mike Rhodin is senior vice president of IBM Watson. DETROIT -- IBM Watson initially won fame as the artificially intelligent computer system that won $1 million for whipping former Jeopardy! Since then, under the leadership of 1984 University of Michigan graduate Mike Rhodin, Watson has morphed into a muscular big business with lots of tentacles and more than 2,000 employees. Earlier this month in Ann Arbor, I interviewed Rhodin, the New York-based senior vice president of IBM Watson who was in town to speak with two groups of University of Michigan business students and budding entrepreneurs. Rhodin smiled when I asked the sci-fi question he hears often: When will machines turn on humans and take over the world?

If you haven't yet finished holiday shopping, here's a bonus suggestion for your tech-inspired gift list: chocolates made using a recipe that is generated by a computerized chef. Nunu Chocolates, which has shops in Boerum Hill and Park Slope, enlisted IBM's Watson to create recipes for several of its latest confections. Among the artificial intelligence platform's many applications, it turns out, is coming up with novel combinations of ingredients. For Nunu, Chef Watson (yes, that's its actual name) came up with three varieties: a brown ale, espresso, yogurt and lime zest truffle (ambitious!); a strawberry and cranberry truffle and a lemon and Earl Grey caramel. Watson earned its chef's hat by analyzing some 100,000 recipes sourced from Bon Appétit as well as the chemical profiles of hundreds of ingredients.

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