🔬 Science Jun 26, 2026 · Ben Sullivan

Trained on 2,216 Recipes, AI Built a Burger That Beat the Big Mac

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The machine had never tasted anything. It had never smelled a grill, never felt the give of a bun, never known whether salt belonged anywhere near beef. What it had was 2,216 burger recipes, scraped and tidied from the sprawl of a public cooking website, and a question its makers had bolted on top: not which burger was likeliest, but which burger was best. From that, with no rules about flavor written into it anywhere, it taught itself the rough shape of what humans want to eat. Then it went loo

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