A new restaurant will open in Dubai this September, and promises to redefine the gastronomic experience through the use of artificial intelligence.
The restaurant, called Woohoo, will be located near the iconic Burj Khalifa.
Woohoo food will be assembled by humans, for now, but everything else. From the menu to the environment and the service, it will be designed by a culinary large language model known as chef Aiman.
Aiman, a portmanteau of “AI” and “Man”, is a powerful system of the trained in decades of food science research, molecular composition data and more than a thousand recipes of different cooking traditions worldwide, according to Ahmet Oytun Cakir, one of the co -founders of Woohoo and CEO of the hospitality firm Gastronaut.
Although Aiman ​​lacks the ability to prove or smell, it operates decomposing the kitchen in its basic components, such as texture, acidity and umami, and reensating them in combinations of unique flavors that are often unexpected.
Once the AI ​​suggests a prototype dish, a team of human chefs, led by the famous Reif Othman chef, based in Dubai, intervenes to refine and adjust the recipe through the tasting and feedback in real time. “The chefs help me to understand what works beyond the data,” said chef Aiman ​​in an interview generated by AI.
The team behind Woohoo emphasizes that technology is not intended to replace human chefs, but to support and improve their creativity.
“Human cuisine will not be replaced,” Cakir said. “But we believe that they will raise ideas and innovation in the kitchen.”
In addition to creativity, sustainability is also in the heart of the project. Chef Aiman ​​is scheduled to develop recipes that use often discarded ingredients in restaurant kitchens, such as meat and fat cuts, in an attempt to reduce food waste.
The founders of Woohoo plan to license the model ai to other restaurants around the world, hoping to help the global food industry reduce waste, reduce costs and introduce a new wave of intelligent gastronomy and technology based.
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