Creativity is Dead
"I do not know what to eat."- an uninspired person
I love to make up dishes on the fly. All I have to do is look inside a fridge and I can create a dish. So for me cooking is not hard. It is pleasurable.
When I hear that people throw out maybe a third of the foods that they buy I have to believe that they are not creative. Why would someone get in their car, drive a while, stand in line, wait for the waiter, wait for the meal and then quickly eat their food? As someone who has been in the kitchens of some fancy restaurants, I can tell you that their cleanliness is not the best either.
To me the creative process is such that I am proud of most things I prepare. I tend to eat better and healthier foods by preparing them myself. I know what I put in vs. what the restaurant put in them.
So what is the answer for the creatively challenged?
Well IBM has the Watson super computer. It has beat chess and jeopardy champions. So if you tell Watson what you have in your fridge it will kick out 100 recipes of what you can make with those ingredients. It actually can produce more but they limit it to 100. 10 seemed too low and 1000 seemed too big.
So if you need an idea of what to cook and can not creatively come up with one, Watson can suggest 100 ideas. It made me think of what else we can do with
Today's question is:
"Do you need the brute force of asupercomputer to overcome a creativity challenge?"
"I do not know what to eat."- an uninspired person
I love to make up dishes on the fly. All I have to do is look inside a fridge and I can create a dish. So for me cooking is not hard. It is pleasurable.
When I hear that people throw out maybe a third of the foods that they buy I have to believe that they are not creative. Why would someone get in their car, drive a while, stand in line, wait for the waiter, wait for the meal and then quickly eat their food? As someone who has been in the kitchens of some fancy restaurants, I can tell you that their cleanliness is not the best either.
To me the creative process is such that I am proud of most things I prepare. I tend to eat better and healthier foods by preparing them myself. I know what I put in vs. what the restaurant put in them.
So what is the answer for the creatively challenged?
Well IBM has the Watson super computer. It has beat chess and jeopardy champions. So if you tell Watson what you have in your fridge it will kick out 100 recipes of what you can make with those ingredients. It actually can produce more but they limit it to 100. 10 seemed too low and 1000 seemed too big.
So if you need an idea of what to cook and can not creatively come up with one, Watson can suggest 100 ideas. It made me think of what else we can do with
Today's question is:
"Do you need the brute force of asupercomputer to overcome a creativity challenge?"
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