I've been playing around with GPT-4o and was wondering if it could help me cook a meal. As a test I decided to take something I knew how to cook (did not want to have to cook twice in case the experiment went awry). I was planning to grill burgers and wanted to see how GPT-4o could help with this.
This is one of those examples of having a GenAI mindset. It's an activity you do day to day but you don't stop and ask yourself - WWGD (what would GenAI do)? I've been trying hard to develop this mindset as I feel that this is the future and so the reason for this experiment.
I was planning to grill some burgers (nice easy experiment to run) and I started off by taking a picture of the ground meat with my camera and asked it to give me a good recipe and how many burgers I could make (this way I'd know how many patties to make).
This was the response.
I've always wondered what Medium High heat is and so asked it to clarify that (should have been specific in my prompt that I was using a grill and not a stove top).
My son plays a lot of tennis and is doing a tennis camp and his coach wants him to increase his protein intake as he needs to build up some muscle and eat healthy. So I decided to take a picture of his meal and ask GPT-4o what the nutritional value of this meal was and if he was missing anything. These are the kinds of questions we have but in the past would have been hard to do.
It is able to identify what is on his plate, what the meal consists of and then tell him exactly what it contains and what is missing. No more maintaining a nutritional notebook and writing down what he is eating and trying to approximate what his calorie and protein intake is.
The last question was whether the burger was medium or medium rare. I tend to overcook burgers but always hear that medium rare is the way to go. So I asked GPT-4o for it's opinion and I had cooked a medium rare burger (I think next time I will go back to medium).
Bottomline, the experiment was successful and I am curious to try this out with something new. I was able to get some additional insights around nutritional value that I would normally not have got.
Why am I excited about this and felt compelled to write this in my newsletter. I think this is the glimpse of the future with GenAI. Just like when Google first came out and search was a novelty or the iPhone first came out and taking pictures and showing them to everyone was a novelty, this is the future of how we will be doing things.
I know a lot of people are on the fence but think about this - once Apple Intelligence is released, this process will look very seamless (at some point) - You take a picture of your ingredients with your camera and it will tell you what meal you can cook. You might even. take a picture of your fridge and it will look at what you have and suggest something to cook. It will then tell you how to cook the meal and once you serve the meal and take a picture of the meal, it will update your nutrition app with data on what you ate. No more data entry. It can tell you what to buy from the store and generate a shopping list and place an online order for you.
I know this sounds like sci-fi but we will all be using GenAI and not even talk about GenAI it will be how we do things.