Dubai restaurant’s ‘AI chef’ designs futuristic dishes, stirring debate over tech in fine dining

Summary

An AFP feature carried by RTL Today describes Woohoo, a Dubai restaurant that markets itself as having the world’s “first AI chef”, an algorithm named Aiman trained on thousands of recipes and research in molecular gastronomy to generate novel dishes such as a pricey “dinosaur tartare”. While the AI system proposes menus and flavor combinations, human chefs still cook and plate the food, and prominent local chefs quoted in the piece question whether AI—lacking memories, emotions and ‘soul’—can ever truly replace human culinary creativity.