Ejercicio 9-10 - Respostes obertes sobre el text · Inglés Majors de 25 anys (Catalunya) Tribunal ordinari Serie 2 2026

CAN AI MAKE BETTER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPES THAN HUMANS?

At the risk of upsetting millions of grandmothers everywhere, we set out to find an answer.

We recruited Dan Souza, chief content officer for America’s Test Kitchen, for our experiment. He matched the Test Kitchen’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe against recipes from two AI programs, ChatGPT and DishGen.

Why chocolate chip cookies?

“Cookies, when you make small changes to ingredients, we find that you get some pretty massive differences,” Souza told Morning Edition ’s A Martínez. So, it’s kind of a fun recipe to use as a litmus test for how successful a recipe development could be.

The taste test

Souza asked each AI program to come up with a chocolate chip cookie recipe. The results were nearly identical.

In our view, the cookies from ChatGPT and DishGen were pretty good but a little boring. A variation on the ChatGPT recipe that was intended to make the cookies more chewy actually made them too chewy.

The Test Kitchen’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe lived up to its name. The cookies were crunchy on the edges and chewy in the middle. They had a nutty flavor with a hint of toffee.

Souza said the Test Kitchen recipe has many innovations that the AI engines could not pick up on, and concluded that the AI recipes have a lot of potential, but that the technology is not quite there yet.

Text adapted from an article by Barry GORDEMER and A MARTÍNEZ. National Public Radio [online] (August 6, 2024)

litmus test: prova de foc / prueba de fuego

chewy: gomós / gomoso

edge: vora / borde

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