Have you ever stood in front of your fridge, staring at its contents, hoping that a ready-made meal would suddenly appear before you? I have. Too many times. But instead of accepting my fate and ordering pizza, I decided to harness the power of machine learning.

In this post, we’ll build a simple—but fun—proof of concept. Here’s the idea: we’ll snap a photo of some ingredients, send the image to ChatGPT via its API, and hopefully ChatGPT will recognize what’s in the photo. Then it will shoot back three recipes that you can make with those ingredients, complete with step-by-step instructions.