A mega-powerful supercomputer has written a cookbook packed full of its own weird recipes.
IBM's Watson machine used its massive artificial brain to dream up dishes for a book called "Cognitive Cooking", which goes on sale tomorrow.
Food experts from the Institute of Culinary Education joined forces with IBM to train "Chef Watson", programming it with "food pairing theories and hundreds of thousands of complex relationships between flavor compounds".
The book includes recipes like Kenyan Brussel Sprouts and Swiss Thai Asparagus Quiche, which apparently contain flavours designed to please the human palate.
IBM wrote : "Chef Watson is able to learn recipes, dish types, and ingredients, understand human taste preferences, and then rearrange and redesign the data to generate unique combinations of savory ingredient pairings.
"Given the numerous different combinations of possible ingredients in the world, it’s impossible for a single person to imagine and reason about them all."
Last year, the supercomputer was installed in a food truck to cook for guests at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
The computer may be a dab hand in the kitchen, but its expertise also makes it good at working on cures for diseases and researching different applications for medical treatments.