The Hot New Dubai Restaurant Run by an AI Chef
At Woohoo, the mastermind behind the menu is a $1 million-plus large language model that also does podcasts.
The AI-driven Woohoo, is steps from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Source: WoohooOn a slow afternoon a few years ago, Dubai restaurateur Ahmet Oytun Cakir was in his office considering menu inspiration. Then the hospitality veteran, whose empire includes the popular hangouts BohoX and rove, had a brainstorm: He’d turn to ChatGPT.
Seconds later, the newly-released chatbot delivered a recipe for spiced lamb. Cakir decided to try it. “It was amazing, amazing,” he recalls. “Immediately we shot the photo, we put it on the menu. It became a bestseller.” That hit dish sparked a bolder thought: What if an entire restaurant could be powered by artificial intelligence?