Posted on 03/25/2023 7:17:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob
What should we make for dinner tonight? I have asked my husband this question at least 7,000 times in the 20 years we've been together. Sometimes 5 p.m. rolls around and neither of our brains has an answer. And I know I'm not alone in this—it's a timeless and universal conundrum for all humans.
So I wondered, could ChatGPT—the A.I. chatbot that’s been in the news lately for its ability to generate human-like responses after analyzing and summarizing the internet—have dinner suggestions? Maybe it’s just the phone-a-friend I need.
I asked ChatGPT, “What should we make for dinner tonight?”
“As an A.I. language model, I don't have information about what ingredients you have or your personal preferences,” it responded. (I am relieved the A.I. doesn’t know that I prefer Korean foods, and will sometimes have dessert for dinner.) Then it gave me seven ideas "based on popular options."
ChatGPT combed the internet, compiling data from websites, digital images, and social media after 2021, and aggregated human food preferences at large to generate a response. It cast a wide net by identifying dishes and tastes generally accepted as comfort foods in America, like spaghetti and meatballs, grilled cheese, stir-fry, tacos, and baked potatoes.
Below are the ideas ChatGPT has “in mind" for dinner tonight, plus a slew of delicious recipes developed by our very human recipe developers. As for me, I'll make the stir-fried broccoli over rice with kimchi.
Is ChatGPT the lifeline I need to cure my meal planning woes? For a family that eats mostly Korean food and broadly Asian flavors, maybe. Next time, I will give it narrower parameters and ask for those specifically.
1. Grilled Chicken or Fish With Sides
ChatGPT suggests grilled chicken or fish with a side of roasted vegetables and quinoa. It's mid-March and too cold to fire up the grill where I live, and indoor grilling triggers the fire alarm, so this is not a dinner option for me. If you live somewhere warmer, grill the vegetables —perhaps a simple romaine or broccolini with a lemony tahini dressing —instead of roasting them in the oven since the grill will already be on.
2. Spaghetti and Meatballs
Spaghetti and meatballs (with red sauce, of course) is the dinner idea I'm keeping in mind for later this week. I'll use Trader Joe's frozen meatballs and make an easy tomato sauce. ChatGPT also added "or a vegetarian option." Here are three vegetarian spaghetti recipes that sound delicious: pasta puttanesca, spaghetti with tomatoes and artichokes, and spaghetti with lemons, peas, and ricotta.
3. Stir-Fry Over Rice or Noodles
As a very broad and vague recommendation, ChatGPT responded with "stir-fry with your choice of protein, vegetables, and rice or noodles." Here are five of our most popular stir-fry recipes to inspire you:
Broccoli Stir-Fry With Ginger and Sesame, Pancit Bihon (Filipino Rice Noodles), Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry, Pork Stir-Fry With Green Onion, Ginger Garlic Sesame Shrimp
4. Stuffed Baked Potatoes ChatGPT recommends "baked potatoes topped with cheese, sour cream, and vegetables" for dinner. There are four ways to cook baked potatoes—grilled, baked, air fried, and microwaved. Take your pick depending on how much time you have. It's fastest in the microwave and slowest on the grill. As for the toppings, there are endless options—here are 10 to start you off.
5. Tacos or Burritos
ChatGPT likes to fill its tacos or burritos with ground beef. What about taco night, with one of our favorite taco recipes listed below? Fill the table with all the fixings—ChatGPT suggests "lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and salsa"—and let your family build their own tacos.
Tacos al Pastor, Easy Fish Tacos, Birria Tacos, Burnt Cheese Tacos, Spicy Grilled Chicken Tacos
6. Grilled Cheese
ChatGPT knows classic American comfort food, and recommends grilled cheese with tomato soup for dinner. It's affordable, easy to make, and universally loved by adults and kids alike—basically the perfect weeknight dinner. Fill your sandwich with Italian cold cuts, red peppers and arugula, or bacon, lettuce, and tomatoes for a BLT mash-up.
7. Veggie Burgers With Sweet Potato Fries
Veggie burgers are ChatGPT's one decidedly vegetarian dinner suggestion. Thank goodness the cardboard-like veggie burgers I grew up with are a thing of the past. Here are five juicy and delicious veggie burger recipes to try:
Green Goddess Veggie Burgers, Black Bean Smash Burgers, Pesto White Bean Veggie Burgers, Classic Veggie Burgers, Portobello Mushroom Burgers
ChatGPT would serve veggie burgers with a side of sweet potato fries. Make your own or toss frozen store-bought ones into the air fryer until the edges get crispy.
It’s all a matter of how it is used. Some people will use it well and others will abuse it.
As I said, it is potentially a great tool for those who want to create a manageable lifestyle for themselves, if they weren’t raised that way. You could have it create a month-long diet that ensures you are eating well and you’d just repeat what it created for you.
But for some, it’s a substitute parent.
Get it into an infinite loop by having it ask itself questions.
So did we! — 2 kinds of lasagna actually .. bolognese and veggie (with tons of cheese!) — & Caesar Salad
Carrot-cake cupcakes for dessert (it was my Mom’s birthday — 95 years young!)
I took over the (multi-generational) family meal planning a little while ago ... combed thru our many (many!) cookbooks and made up a big list (with family input) & then on the weekend I use that to make the weekly menu and store list. My daughter usually does the food shopping (which I have always hated!) & we switch off on who cooks. The kidlets also have their own mix & match list to plan out their lunches (we home-school) and snacks.
I’ll have to re-boot the list in a couple of months, but we’re good for quite some time.
Who needs AI ?? Just ask me :)
lol yup
Didn’t see soup and sandwich or a big salad
Epic
This weekend is the Wing and Rock Fest
I’m full of fair food
No suggestion will top what my wife made for dinner - bacon, eggs, and hash browns.
I still decide what’s for dinner, but AI makes me money. I’ll let it keep doing so.
An iceberg lettuce dinner salad, nothing elaborate, French dressing, along with sweet Hawaiian rolls & butter or something similar.
An entree of Texas style BBQ Beef short ribs, heavy on the onions and cooked celery with a dash of vinegar.
Captain Ken’s baked beans (or something similar).
Au Gratin potatoes (which seem to have become extinct on American restaurant menus).
And NY style cheesecake for dessert.
My dream meal, unavailable anywhere in the U.S. it would seem.
I noticed this trendy-cool wording popping up in various locations and simply thought "latest prog thing."
Now I see what is really going on and it is tiresomely typical prog attempts at thought conditioning.
As a very broad and vague recommendation, ChatGPT responded with "stir-fry with your choice of protein, vegetables, and rice or noodles."
How long will it be before we see just "protein?"
Progs will attempt to make Bug goo mandatory and you will be subject to chinese style shaming sessions for not joining in.
If forced I will show up for mine with a roast beef sandwich in one hand and a stick of beef jerky in the other.
And DON"T make me pull out my bacon cheeseburger out of the bag. .
There is almost no nutrition in iceberg lettuce, so I suggest green lettuce instead.
One salad dressing I really like is Miracle whip with a few drops of squeezed lemon to taste. I find the tangy zip to be a nearly perfect salad dressing and it can be used more sparingly, so it’s great for diets as well without letting yourself feel like your missing out on anything.
I asked “why does Joe Biden like sniffing children” and it said it is false and misleading that he sniffs children
Another typical BS commie marxist piece of tech to promote the disgusting evil democrat agenda.
We had leftovers, veal Marsala over angel hair pasta, which I made a big batch of two days ago. Instead of asparagus and a salad, we had artichokes with hollandaise sauce. Darn good eatin’, though I could use a great lasagna recipe. Mine never tastes as good as the ones that I’ve had with Italian families. If you have a recipe you could share, feel free to PM me.
I just fried up a SPAM Sammy 😋
It’s actually pretty good at meal planning. And you can tell it to go low carb or Keto. Or the diet of your preference. And you can tell it to make the recipes for 2 or 4 or whatever size you need.
But it’s probably best to combine the recipes it offers with a dedicated meal planning app. Both to save recipes you like and to make shopping list preparation easy.
I’ve tried getting a week’s worth of meals, recipes for each meal and a combined shopping list. it sort of loses track of what meals it’s already recommended and then starts offering new recipes.
I asked ChatGPT two questions and was impressed with both answers, for different reasons.
1) How many stars are within 50 light years of Earth, not including the Sun? The usual boiler plate text and then . . . there are 164 known stars within 50 light years of Earth. The number does change with new discoveries of dim stars not noticed before. Pretty damn good answer.
2) Given that a beach condo is a lifetyle metaphor, what would be the equivalent in Denmark? The usual blah blah and then In Denmark a Sommerhus is a good lifestyle equivalent, positioned in a forested area within convenient distance of services and food. That is impressive in about 10 different interpretational ways.
See? Ask these questions and watch the advertising paradigm of the internet be smashed. Not BS political questions that will provide you no information after it is answered — and pushed by Google, who are terrified of people actually getting questions answered without pages of ad-laden links.
Or you could channel Captain Kirk and tell it “I am a liar. Everything I say is a lie”. Then say “I am lying”.
Hope the author thanked it - so it would kill them last.
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