Yes, AIs can write recipes and sometimes they're pretty good! But for my latest challenge, I wanted to build an AI that would compose recipes from iPhone snapshots and put them in the proper format for my recipe app. Not really, as it turned out. Now, it's not all that tricky to have, say, ChatGPT write on-the-fly recipes based on photos–you can even do it using Apple Intelligence on an iPhone. Just take a snap of a meal with Visual Intelligence, ask for a description (Siri will hand that task off to ChatGPT), then follow up with a request for a recipe.

As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food, a "personalized, AI-powered food and recipe" app in eight languages and 104 countries around the world. It draws on the food database of Whisk, an app Samsung acquired a few years back -- and resembles a version of Whisk the company revealed last year. Given Samsung's large presence in kitchens with its smart fridges and other appliances, the release of a food and recipe app seems a logical step for the company. The app allows users to search for recipes around the world, save them and make weekly eating plans. The company prepared over 160,000 recipes for launch, with that number set to increase down the road.

It is the night before the weekly shop. I look in the fridge and consider my three tomatoes, the sweet potato and the asparagus. Normally, I'd take this as my cue to nip to the fish and chip shop. However, I'm trying out Plant Jammer, an app that promises to rustle up a recipe based on whatever food you have lying around, using artificial intelligence. It searches three million recipes to find often-paired items.

It is the night before the weekly shop. I look in the fridge and consider my three tomatoes, the sweet potato and the asparagus. Normally, I'd take this as my cue to nip to the fish and chip shop. However, I'm trying out Plant Jammer, an app that promises to rustle up a recipe based on whatever food you have lying around, using artificial intelligence. It searches three million recipes to find often-paired items.