THREE KEY FACTS: The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, is redefining how we interact with technology by automating routine tasks. As much as a third of the world’s produce is wasted, costing the global economy a staggering US$1 trillion ($1.6t) a year.
However, innovators are using AI to fight back. Some of the key concerns around AI use relate to its lack of understanding of the human experience. Kim Knight is a journalist with the New Zealand Herald’s premium lifestyle team and has a master’s in gastronomy.
OPINION Statistically, the average New Zealand woman will consume 30,395 dinners before she dies. To put this another way: I will spend more of my lifetime deciding how to cook a potato than I did choosing a husband. As a control freak who likes to cook, what’s for dinner is largely determined by me.
All that admin adds up. Months of my existence will be devoted to planning, procuring and prepping for an evening meal. I don’t mind, because understanding exactly what width of pasta should be served with finely grated bottarga is my love language.
Until it is not. “I do all the cooking!” I scream. This is an argument that has more holes than havarti.
It wilfully ignores my significant other’s excellent fish curries, home-made pizza bases and mushroom omelettes . It does not account for restaurant meals, or dinners made by whānau, or those times when a pinot gris paired with tomato sauce and a bowl of fries definitely counts as a vegetarian option. My.
