Google is scaling up Search Generative Experience (SGE) for holiday shopping. The company announced Thursday that its AI-powered search bot can now spit out gift ideas, photorealistic images of product types and virtual try-ons of men's tops. Google SGE launched in May, offering AI-driven answers and suggestions to complement the search engine's standard web results. The company has since added follow-up queries, better translations and interactive definitions in more complex subjects. The tool requires Chrome on desktop or the Google mobile app on smartphones.

The large population of home cooks with dietary restrictions is under-served by existing cooking resources and recipe generation models. To help them, we propose the task of controllable recipe editing: adapt a base recipe to satisfy a user-specified dietary constraint. This task is challenging, and cannot be adequately solved with human-written ingredient substitution rules or existing end-to-end recipe generation models. We tackle this problem with SHARE: a System for Hierarchical Assistive Recipe Editing, which performs simultaneous ingredient substitution before generating natural-language steps using the edited ingredients. By decoupling ingredient and step editing, our step generator can explicitly integrate the available ingredients. Experiments on the novel RecipePairs dataset -- 83K pairs of similar recipes where each recipe satisfies one of seven dietary constraints -- demonstrate that SHARE produces convincing, coherent recipes that are appropriate for a target dietary constraint. We further show through human evaluations and real-world cooking trials that recipes edited by SHARE can be easily followed by home cooks to create appealing dishes.

When you're trying to come up with gift ideas for someone who likes to cook, you want to find something that's both personal and practical. But finding a gift for a home cook that strikes that balance can be hard, especially if you're the kind of person whose fridge is filled with takeout containers. That's why we've gathered 35 of the best gifts for every type of home cook on your list--from the newbie who just wants to make a good grilled cheese to the home cook who has it all--all of them are available on Amazon, most of them with two-day Prime shipping. ChefSteps Joule Sous Vide, 1100 Watts, All White ($179) They might not think they need a sous vide machine, but that's exactly what makes it a great gift for an experienced chef, who can use it to make always-tender steaks, never-overcooked fish, and even soft-scrambled eggs. Echo Show (Second Generation) ($230) The new generation of the Echo Show has louder speakers and a bigger screen than before, so they can follow along with recipe videos and tutorials from any one of Amazon's partners, or ask Alexa to set a timer.

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. People who love to cook are particular about their tools. They want the pan that feels right in their hand when they're flipping an omelet, the tea kettle that heats water to the perfect temperature for green tea, or the spiralizer that works so well they don't mind giving it valuable real estate in their kitchen gadget drawer. It's all well and good until you're trying to buy a gift that the picky home cook in your life will actually love.

I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create. It was the brainchild of the engineer who brought us the iPhone's camera and Ammunition, the design firm that gave us Beats headphones. "We take very hard technologies, AI, deep learning, and lots of sensors, and we apply that to creating a well thought through, simple interface that just makes your life better," says June cofounder Matt Van Horn, another Apple alum who cofounded Zimride, today known as Lyft. "Our MO is we just want to inspire people to cook more."