By AAP
Publication Date: 2025-12-11 01:18:00
A renowned New Zealand chef and restaurateur has urged Australians to take their creativity seriously, warning the rise of artificial intelligence cannot replace ingenuity.
Ben Shewry, the owner of award-winning Melbourne restaurant Attica, tested the limits of AI by giving it a simple recipe and then serving the dish to 90 guests.
“Create a dish from the world’s 50 best restaurants in the style of Ben Shewry,” the chef, known for using native Australian and New Zealand ingredients, wrote in ChatGPT.
In return, Taranaki-born Shewry received a comically over-the-top recipe called “The First Rain on Dry Earth,” which consisted of paperbark-smoked kangaroo tortilla, edible clay crisp, local herb oil and “raindrop broth.”
Speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, he told a crowd that he had tried to get the artificial intelligence chatbot to improve his recipe, but he repeated similar flawed ideas.
The dish was “soulless” and “horrible”, with the raindrop broth…
