AI may not with nukes or by sabotaging the power grid. It might just murder us with dangerous recipes. My daughters love when I make crepes on a lazy Sunday morning.
My go-to recipe comes from a Family Circle Encyclopedia of Cooking, published in 1990. It calls for three eggs, three-quarters of a cup of flour, one cup of milk, two tablespoons of melted butter and a quarter teaspoon of salt. Easy-peasy.
And safe to eat! There is something to be said for time-tested recipes that come in book form. That something is as follows: the printed words were not generated by an artificial intelligence that may encourage you to add pebbles to the batter. Google recently unveiled an “experiment” from the company’s Search Labs.
The basic idea is to use generative AI to provide a summary answer instead of just links. This is potentially helpful until you a read a headline this week such as: “Google’s Latest Search Tool Is Telling Us to Put Glue on Our Pizza — And Eat Rocks.” It seems “AI Overviews” needs to work out a few kinks before a hungry user gets rushed to the ER with acute symptoms of cement gut and epoxy jaw.
I thought this was a joke. But a user shared a screen grab of an AI cooking tip for when cheese does not stick to pizza dough. AI: “You can also add 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to give it more tackiness.
” First, I didn’t know tackiness was synonymous with stickiness. But can you imagine walking into a Pizza Hut and spotting a slop bucket of Elmer’s on t.
