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.
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I like 5 of the 7 suggestions ... Might as well go with it.
I just wish ChatGPT would do the cooking and clean-up too.
And I use ChatGPT for technical questions all the time... Much faster than parsing through searches yourself... I stay away from political and cultural questions...
Recent eats>>>
Aldis ground lamb to make lamb burgers. All lamb is grass fed. Aldi price is just above 5 dollars a pound and is surprisingly low fat
Buy their organic ketchup too!
Worcestershire sauce cheap at Dollar Tree. But must be reduced down to one third the volume. Too thin otherwise
Top sirloin steaks. Too thick, so cut them in half longitudinally. Pan fried/ seared in olive oil. Three minutes.
Microwaved whole yellow squash and zucchini. 3 to 5 minutes. All the flavor is kept inside
Sigh - today’s generation can’t walk or exercise without a special ‘watch” (which is always watching), or a magic mirror, or a streaming ‘personal trainer” - and now they can’t feed themselves without a magic 8-ball program...
Who else thinks the Human race is doomed?
I was surprised Soylent Green was not on the list—obvious programming error—we gotta save the planet ya know!
So can your grocery store. Even if you have no loyalty card and pay with cash. Privacy doesn’t exist in this world.
Who says it’s running their lives? What is the real functional difference between asking ChatGPT for meal ideas and looking through a cookbook? Or going to recipes.com? Or asking your mom? Or wandering around the grocery story looking for ideas (which is what I did Friday, I wasn’t in a mood to pre-plan)? It’s all the same.
That’s been in use a long time. I know a build a salad place that’s been using “choose your protein” since last century. If you think about it it’s actually very useful. For one thing you’ve got various sections of our culture that don’t consider fish to be meat. Then you’ve got the whole hard boiled egg thing. And of course it’s a salad place so there’s tofu. We all grew up with the food pyramid: fruits and vegetables, starches, proteins, milks and dairy, fats and sugars.
So it really ain’t new. And it ain’t part of some conspiracy.
There isn’t. But you know these leftist morons that followed lock-step with every covid mandate (masks, lockdowns) etc. are going to do what the AI says, and we’ll but inundated with moronic articles going forward “ChatGPT told me to.....” These people are total followers with zero brain cells. And the scary thing is public policy will be influenced by these brain dead leftists who will claim that Chat GPT, like snopes, is some sort of authority. We’ve already seen articles in the MSM where Chat AI claims that the Bible says homosexuality and trannyism are A-Ok, and the article cites the AI as an “unbiased” authority. That is my concern going forward with AI. Programmed by leftists and communsits, and will be cited as an “expert” when liberals push through their anti-God agendas.
Sorry but you’re just ranting silly. People who follow orders follow orders. Where it comes from ain’t the problem.
I wonder if I can get an answer as how to open the pod bay door manually?
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You sure as heck ain't gonna allow yer tastebuds to do it; RIGHT?
or Twinkies; either.
Of course; that is after it has been consumed by a chicken.
2023
Choosing your own food from what you see has been dangerous for a long, LONG time.
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
You are right......... my wife asked me yesterday what I wanted for supper next week and I have yet to tell her.
I’d better get mind in gear.......... right now!
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