Absolutely, says Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. His team is using artificial intelligence to grow basil and other produce in enclosed climate-controlled environments, and, thanks to hundreds of sensors, crunching data to come up with "recipes" for growing the tastiest, most nutritious crops on the planet. Harper is not alone in using AI to revolutionize the future of food. Scientists, chefs, agronomists and techies are collecting vast catalogs of data around everything from food flavors and aromas to growing climates and plant biochemistry and creating algorithms for tastier, healthier, safer and more sustainable food. While chefs look at recipes for ingredients, artificial intelligence looks at the chemical composition of an ingredient to suggest combinations--creating new recipes based on the ingredient. Food pairing, for example, uses algorithms to help professional chefs come up with unexpected ingredient matches based on what foods and drinks go well together.