Who Won the Great AI Fritter Feud?

Everybody.

Here is an AI Treasure for you if you like delicious food and an AI battle over pride of best recipe.

The other day, while pleasure-reading “Gnomon”, Nick Harkaway’s challenging novel about a future high-surveillance society, I puzzled over his mention of Kolokitho keftedes. So, I looked them up on OpenAI’s ChatGPT where I learned about their high likelihood for yumminess. I immediately prompted the AI for a precise step-by-step recipe to make some. (The word “precise” did a lot of work in ChatGPT’s response, particularly in weights and measures.)

But then I wondered- would Google’s Gemini tweak ChatGPT’s Kolokitho keftedes recipe? ChatGPT said it expected that yes, Gemini almost certainly would tweak it, but in a way that would increase failure risk.

Gee, does ChatGPT have pride of ownership? So, I replied to it, let’s just ask Gemini, shall we.

Gemini was thrilled when I logged into it: “It’s not every day”, it responded, “that I get to engage in a cross-platform culinary debate! I’d love to see if ChatGPT gets even more protective of its recipe”.

Paid subscribers enjoy the full true-story of ChatGPT and Gemini’s Great Fritter Feud as well as their (divergent) ideas about what goes into a great recipe for a successful dinner.