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When I tell people I can cook, it doesn\u2019t mean I do.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, if I absolutely must enter the kitchen, my food will be edible. It may not win any Michelin stars, but neither will it be on Singapore Food Agency\u2019s blacklist. It will be sustenance even if not satisfaction.<\/span><\/p>\n The whole shebang of preparing a meal from scratch, from ideation to plating, invariably reminds me of one of life\u2019s harsh truths: Just because you can do something doesn\u2019t mean you should.<\/span><\/p>\n So when I was invited to a festive cook-off with OpenAI Singapore in early December that promised to show how ChatGPT could help with planning and cooking for the holidays by getting attendees to participate in a mock culinary contest, I was, obviously, sceptical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unless the artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot literally dons an apron and seasons my chicken for me, it is just a backseat driver. I need less, not more, chatter when I\u2019m trying to remember if I\u2019ve salted my pasta.<\/span><\/p>\n But I often tout the common refrain, \u201cI want AI to do my dishes and laundry\u201d, which proposes that in its ideal state, AI should grant us more time for the work we love by taking on the chores we don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I wanted to give ChatGPT a chance to prove it could indeed help with my most hated chore. After all, I was obsessed with Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars, so perhaps making the leap from couch to kitchen wasn’t <\/span>that<\/span><\/em> unimaginable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the very least, I hoped its often-sychophantic persona would hallucinate that I was reality TV material\u00a0<\/span>so I\u2019d be motivated to prove it right.<\/p>\n The rules were straightforward \u2013 or as straightforward as they could be for people who should\u2019ve never passed Home Economics in secondary school.<\/span><\/p>\n Attendees were split into groups of four to five for the cook-off, which was held at The Providore Cooking Studio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA PROMISING START?<\/h2>\n