Researchers say they've trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to create burgers that diners rated as highly as those offered by a world-famous fast-food chain.Stanford University researchers fed 2,216 burger recipes from Food.com into their AI tool, BurgerAI, to generate new burger recipes.Some of the AI-designed burgers matched or outperformed a reconstructed version of McDonald's Big Mac in blind taste tests, the researchers reported in a study published in npj Science of Food.WHY HOMEMADE PRIME RIB CAN BE ‘EVEN BETTER’ THAN AT A STEAKHOUSE, EXPERTS SAYBurgerAI generated a recipe resembling the Big Mac "without explicit supervision." The researchers noted that the Big Mac "was never part of the initial training data." Instead, the AI arrived at a similar recipe by learning from people's taste preferences.Researchers have developed an AI tool that creates burger recipes that are rated as better-tasting, environmentally sustainable and more nutritious than some popular restaurant offerings.(iStock)BurgerAI can also tailor burgers to be more nutritious, more environmentally sustainable and more personalized for gender, age and physical activity, according to a Stanford Report news release."Food choices are some of the most consequential decisions humans make every day," said Vahidullah Tac, a researcher who worked on the project.AMERICA'S FAVORITE FAST-FOOD CHAIN NAMED: MCDONALD'S WINS HEARTS BUT NOT BEST BURGER, SURVEY SAYS"Food was an easy motivator.
With one arrow, you can hit two targets — planetary health and personal health.It's a great and impactful research area.""We see food as a model system for a much larger vision: AI as a partner in scientific and engineering discovery."Ellen Kuhl, a Stanford professor of mechanical engineering who led the research, said most AI systems "are trained to predict what already exists."We wanted AI to invent what should exist next," Kuhl added.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS"BurgerAI does not ask, 'What b...