About whether ChatGPT is already clever enough to be a useful cooking assistant.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether ChatGPT is already clever enough to be a useful cooking assistant.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
As long as these models constantly keep switching up things like the temperatures at which a steak will be medium rare or at which temperature to season cast iron, you will never be able to trust them for cooking. My mother ruined a nice waterfowl for Christmas by listening to Gemini.
And this is inherent to how LLMs work.