{"id":10640,"date":"2014-03-07T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2014-03-07T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T12:42:52","slug":"supercomputers-making-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/supercomputers-making-fast-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputers Making Fast Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030714_1241_Supercomput1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This economy has been tough for everyone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/watson-finds-a-job\/\">When we last checked in<\/a> on IBM&#8217;s supercomputer, Watson, it was sending resumes with a requested salary of a billion dollars to the top companies around the world. As it turns out these days it is flipping burgers at a fast food joint for, we presume, minimum wage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watson has been scanning the world&#8217;s recipes to identify patterns in ingredients and cooking methods.<\/li>\n<li>It is then using this data to create new dishes that are likely to appeal to the human palate.<\/li>\n<li>Its ideas so far have included a &#8220;Swiss-Thai asparagus quiche&#8221; and an &#8220;Austrian chocolate burrito&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Interested customers can go to a food truck in Las Vegas to see the supercomputer at work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the initiative over <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/12912\/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/12912\/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/03\/assorted-links-1073.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This economy has been tough for everyone. When we last checked in on IBM&#8217;s supercomputer, Watson, it was sending resumes with a requested salary of a billion dollars to the top companies around the world. As it turns out these days it is flipping burgers at a fast food joint for, we presume, minimum wage: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/030714_1241_Supercomput1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10640\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}