Deboned Loin of Lamb with Pinenut Crust. A recipe from IBM’s Watson #CognitiveCooking

Date: January 13, 2015

Author: Andy Hadfield

At a recent event with IBM at The Griffin, the Incogvino JHB team got to experience some cognitive cooking (and human wine pairings). The recipe below was generated by Watson, IBM’s SuperComputer.

Inputs used to generate this recipe:

Primary ingredient: Lamb
Primary style: Traditional
Combination recipe using flavour profiling (not necessarily unique).

Pairs with: Rust en Vrede Cabernet Sauvignon 2012.

IBM’s Watson can cook (quite well actually)…

Date: January 13, 2015

Author: Andy Hadfield

Categories: Food Experiences

Comments: 3 Replies

Towards the end of last year, the JHB Incogvino team got to hang out with the geeks at IBM who were showing off their latest Watson trick. Watson, if you haven’t heard about it before, is the first stab at Artificial Intelligence. A very, very clever computer that can do some pretty interesting things by crunching enormous sets of data.

The Chef at The Griffin telling the story of what it’s like to get his instructions from a computer…