Weekly meal planning is a major chore, and
gift giving can be daunting, with various birthdays and holidays throughout the
year. And any adult who has read books for children knows that it can become
repetitive, and the books are not always relatable to a child’s situation or
growing pains.
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Here is how AI can help.
Meal-planning superpowersFoodies and private chefs have been
enthusiastically using AI to sketch out comprehensive meal plans that consider
people’s preferences and dietary restrictions. (Cooks are less gung ho about
AI-generated recipes, which can be a disaster if a bot screws up.)
It turns out that brainstorming meals is a
borderline superpower for a chatbot like ChatGPT or Bing. As always, the more
detailed you are with your requests, the better.
For example, a private chef posting on
Reddit shared an example of a prompt asking for a three-day meal plan for a
diabetic vegan with a nut allergy.
I asked ChatGPT for a meal plan formatted
in a printer-friendly chart that can be stuck on the refrigerator. Here is my
prompt:
Act as a private chef. I have a family of
two, me and my wife. Plan meals for us for five days, including breakfast,
snacks, lunch and dinner. We like Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Italian food. I
like meat; my wife prefers chicken and seafood. We have no restrictions. We are
trying to shed a few pounds after the pandemic.
The chatbot answered with: Certainly, here
is a five-day meal plan tailored to your new preferences, incorporating
Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Italian cuisines, while keeping the meals lean and
healthy for weight loss.
It listed a breakfast, lunch and dinner,
and two snacks, for each day.
Generative AI often produces different
results from the same prompt. If you want to shuffle the deck and get slightly
different menu suggestions, you can always enter the prompt again. And by all
means, tweak the instructions for different results.
What about the actual recipes to make these
dishes? I followed up with this prompt: “Can you find recipes for all of those
meal suggestions? Please include a link to the recipes online so I can check
the source.”
ChatGPT responded with a long list of
recipes from sites including The Food Network, BBC, and specialist food blogs.
(The subscriber-only version with GPT-4
produced the best results here; the free version with GPT-3 returned some
broken links, presumably because its training data is older. Microsoft’s Bing’s
chatbot is also good at this type of query, but Google’s Bard bot declined to
return specific links to recipes.)
One last trick: Ask your bot to compile a
list of ingredients for all the recipes. It can even group them by grocery
store aisle.
As always, to play it safe, double check
the recipes to make sure your bot isn’t hallucinating.
Give better gifts
Let us move on to gift giving — a talent
that some of us possess more than others. There are several AI tools that aim
to make selecting a gift easier, including a website that comes up with gift
ideas based on someone’s Instagram profile.
I preferred DreamGift, which uses a chatbot
to ask you a series of questions about your gift recipient’s age, gender, interests
and hobbies, along with how much you’re willing to spend, and automatically
provides ideas and links to order the items online. (My wife confessed that she
liked some of the bot’s gift suggestions, which included an indoor herb-growing
kit, more than some of the gifts I’d given her over the years. Ouch.)
If you prefer to use a chatbot, that will
work, too. Bing and Bard, which are connected to search engines, are powerful
shopping assistants. The trick to getting bespoke recommendations is to share voluminous
details about your budget and the people you’re shopping for.
Tricks for bedtime
Let’s end with something more creative. You
can use AI to create a customized bedtime story or even your own hard-copy
children’s book.
Give a chatbot like ChatGPT or Bard a
detailed prompt that includes your child’s preferred storytelling style, any
details you’d like to include and the situation that you want the story to
address.
Here is a prompt I wrote for a hypothetical
child who is unhappy about moving to a new home. I asked it to involve some
familiar characters:
Act as a children’s book writer, mimicking
“Frog and Toad.” My kid is going through a rough time — we are moving to a new
home and changing schools. Write a story to help him process that. Incorporate
our dogs, Max and Mochi the corgis, as characters.
The chatbot generated a heartfelt story
about Max and Mochi, a pair of furry siblings. They enjoyed playing in the park
and were sad to move to a new home. But they supported each other and
eventually went to a new school, where they made new friends: Bella the
sprightly beagle and Charlie the cheeky chihuahua. Everything worked out in the
end.
If you are feeling extra ambitious, you can
generate illustrations to accompany the text. I asked Midjourney to produce an
illustration for a children’s book of two corgis playing in a park together.
To produce a full book, I’d ask Midjourney
to generate images to accompany each paragraph of the chatbot’s story. Then I’d
use a photo service that offers a book option, such as Google Photos or
Shutterfly, to have the custom-made children’s book printed and shipped to me.
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