Collaborating with New York’s Institute of Culinary Education, IBM has developed a computer system that can generate over a quintillion food recipes to help enhance human creativity in the kitchen.

The IBM Food Truck carries the system – called computational creativity – that can ‘think’ about and process much larger ingredient combinations than human chefs. Generating over a quintillion dish possibilities, the system then uses data on the chemistry of the ingredients, as well as the psychology of people’s flavour likes and dislikes, to predict which recipes might prove the most surprising and pleasant to the human palate.

Arguably this takes away the role of human creativity in building a memorable dish, but it could potentially push the boundaries and highlight what can be done with food in a positive way.