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Researchers say they’ve trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to create burgers that diners rated as highly as those offered by a world-famous fast-food chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stanford University researchers fed 2,216 burger recipes<\/a> from Food.com into their AI tool, BurgerAI, to generate new burger recipes.<\/p>\n

Some of the AI-designed burgers matched or outperformed a reconstructed version of McDonald’s Big Mac in blind taste tests, the researchers reported in a study published in npj Science of Food.<\/p>\n

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BurgerAI generated a recipe resembling the Big Mac “without explicit supervision.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The researchers noted that the Big Mac “was never part of the initial training data.” Instead, the AI arrived<\/a> at a similar recipe by learning from people’s taste preferences.<\/p>\n

BurgerAI can also tailor burgers to be more nutritious<\/a>, more environmentally sustainable and more personalized for gender, age and physical activity, according to a Stanford Report news release.<\/p>\n

“Food choices are some of the most consequential decisions humans make every day,” said Vahidullah Tac, a researcher who worked on the project.<\/p>\n

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“Food was an easy motivator. With one arrow, you can hit two targets \u2014 planetary health and personal health<\/a>. It’s a great and impactful research area.”<\/p>\n

Ellen Kuhl, a Stanford professor of mechanical engineering who led the research, said most AI systems “are trained to predict what already exists.<\/p>\n

“We wanted AI to invent what should exist next,” Kuhl added.<\/p>\n

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“BurgerAI does not ask, ‘What burger is most likely?’ It asks, ‘What burger best satisfies these important and complex objectives?'”<\/p>\n

Over 100 diners took part in a blind taste test of the AI burgers prepared by an executive chef at a San Francisco restaurant, the researchers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared with the Big Mac<\/a>, BurgerAI’s Delicious Burgers scored the same or better in overall liking, flavor and texture, the researchers wrote.<\/p>\n

“Its mushroom burger achieves an environmental impact score more than an order of magnitude lower; and its bean burger attains nearly twice the nutritional score,” the study said.<\/p>\n

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“We expected some trade-off between sustainability and consumer acceptance,” Tac said. “But we found a burger with dramatically lower environmental impact could still compete with one of the world’s most successful burgers.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to McDonald’s for comment on the findings.<\/p>\n

Generative AI has the potential to transform many areas beyond food, including pharmaceuticals and product design, the researchers said.<\/p>\n

“For centuries, food design has been a matter of intuition, experience and trial and error,” Kuhl said. “We are beginning to show that AI can transform food design into a quantitative science with applications in other important fields.”<\/p>\n

She added that the burger “is just the beginning.”<\/p>\n

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“We see food as a model system<\/a> for a much larger vision: AI as a partner in scientific and engineering discovery.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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