Would you let an AI help out in the kitchen?

IBM's Jeopardy-winning computer, Watson, has a new calling - as a chef

When IBM's Watson computer won a special episode of US game show Jeopardy, many hailed the event as a threshold of a new era of computing: the end, as IBM's Florian Pinel puts it, of "the era of programmable computers, where you had to write code to get a computer to do what you wanted. Now, we have cognitive computers, which can learn what you want".

But Watson's Jeopardy victory was only ever intended as a proof of concept, designed to get the artificially intelligent computer system in the mind of the public.