A futuristic restaurant named Woohoo will open in September, proposing a unique concept: a chef who creates menus and conceives culinary experience.
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Starting with September, in the center of Dubai, a few steps away from Burj Khalifa, Woohoo will open, a restaurant that will work under the guidance of a virtual cook. “Chef Aiman”, an artificial intelligence model specialized in gastronomy, will create menus, conceive the ambience and coordinate the services, while the preparations will be assembled by people.
“Chef Aiman” is a model of culinary language developed on the basis of decades of research in food sciences, data on the molecular composition of ingredients and over a thousand recipes from global gastronomic traditions, explained Ahmet Oytun Cakir, co -founder of Woohoo, for Reuters.
Although he cannot taste, smell or feel food, aiman “It works by decomposing the kitchen into component parts, such as texture, acidity or umami and reassembly in unusual combinations of flavors and ingredients ”support its developers.
These recipes are then tested and adjusted by human chefs, including the famous Chef Reif Othman in Dubai, who offers feedback to improve the preparations.
“It helps me refine my understanding beyond the gross data”
In an interview offered in the form of an interactive conversation with the AI model, Aiman explained that he works in close collaboration with the real chefs: “Their answers to my suggestions help me refine my understanding of what works beyond pure data”.
The purpose, emphasizes the founders of the project, is not the replacement of the human factor in cooking, but its use. “Human cooking will not be replaced, but we believe that (Aiman) will increase ideas, creativity“Said Oytun Cakir, who is also executive director of the gastronaut hospitality company.
Reducing waste and global plans
One of the objectives of the culinary AS is the development of recipes that reuse ingredients that would usually be thrown into commercial kitchens, such as meat or fat scraps.
In the long term, the Woohoo team hopes that the Chef Aiman model will be licensed to restaurants around the world. Thus, it could contribute to reducing food waste and improving sustainability in the gastronomic industry.
