I have always been a fan of watching AI become more powerful and more useful. This interest began back when Cleverbot was released, and my friends and I had far too much fun seeing all the ways we could confuse it to get weird responses. ChatGPT is the main AI bot that I have been paying attention to recently, as it is an extremely well-rounded AI that can help with an extremely wide variety of topics. I’ve asked it to explain math concepts to me, I’ve asked it to explain Vulkan concepts to me, and I’ve even asked it to create recipes for me, to which is succeeded with a recipe I found to be extremely delicious, and extremely easy to make! Now, we have round two of recipe requests! This time, for some salads to try!

Starting out, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to ask for, but I know I like spinach, so I figured I would start from there, and this already sounds delicious! However, I like to have chicken in my salads, so naturally I continued the request.

I was genuinely curious if ChatGPT would alter the current recipe or give me a whole new recipe. As well, I was curious if it was simply going to add chicken in and not even consider the other items in the recipe.

I wasn’t too surprised to see it simply added the chicken and gave me a quick addition of “roast the chicken,” however, I was intrigued that is included a recommendation of seasoning the chicken with herbs and thyme or basil!

Now, one cannot simply eat the same thing every day, and I would likely not eat is every other day as I would likely get tired of it. However, I was curious if ChatGPT would understand how to contrast flavors and make a decent option for the opposite days as the first salad.

To my surprise, it seems to have done exactly that! The first recipe seems to be a lighter, fruitier option due to the strawberries, while the second recipe seems to be focused on a more earthy flavor from the kale, with some sourness from the lemon juice.

However, I am not a fan of kale or quinoa, so the requests must continue!

The dressing of this salad is nearly identical to the first, but I am very interested in seeding the roasted carrots and bell peppers, and how they will combine with the cherry tomatoes and pine nuts! Now, one of the biggest problems with a recipe is keeping everything organized, trying to make a shopping list for the store, and inevitably you are sure to miss something, because recipes are great for cooking, but not for shopping. However, what if I simply ask ChatGPT to do that for me, as well, while it already has the recipes right there waiting for me?

And there you have it! A fully functional shopping list, organized by type! Now, obviously there are bound to be issues, such as the store I commonly go to might arrange things differently than, say, the store you go to, and therefore it’s hard to guarantee that they will have it in the order they were given, and I doubt any of you are grabbing the meat and produce before the canned good anyways, unless your store is specifically set up that way. However, most stores are set up to have the dry good with other dry goods, meat with other meats, and so on so forth, so this at least helps narrow it down, so I can simply go to the dairy section and know exactly what I’m looking for!