NYT Cooking launches AI recipe assistant
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The New York Times' cooking app NYT Cooking has launched an AI recipe assistant for subscribers, initially available only on iOS. The assistant can rewrite recipes, substitute ingredients, and generate new versions while leaving the original recipe unchanged; its capabilities are trained on user comments. The Verge's hands-on testing showed that it turned a one-pot ginger chicken rice dish with missing ingredients into a version using chicken tenders, green beans, and red onion, and the result was well received; but when making a cake, it nearly had the author use only half the butter.
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A reviewer tested NYT Cooking's new AI assistant, available to subscribers on iOS at launch, which customizes recipes by suggesting substitutions, scaling portions, and converting measurements while leaving the original recipe unchanged. It successfully adapted a one-pot chicken and rice dish to missing ingredients and turned a Bundt cake recipe into muffins, but once gave the modified recipe's butter amount when asked about the original, which would have made a dry cake. The reviewer found it a useful sous chef that still requires double-checking amounts and cooking times.
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