The Week contest: AI pizza
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This week's question: A startup founded by a group of rocket scientists is trying to devise an artificial intelligence system that can make pizza from scratch. What would you name a specialty pie created without the use of human hands?
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THE WINNER: "Bot-a-Bot-a-Bing"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
SECOND PLACE: "The Stringylarity"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
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THIRD PLACE: "Deepfake Dish"
Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Deep Blue Dish Pizza"
George Strong, Plano, Texas
"The HALapeño Special"
Joel Nelson, Goleta, California
"Papa Tron's"
Hunter Burgan, Los Angeles, California
"De-droid Style Pizza"
Claire Williams, Louisville, Kentucky
"The Mind's Pie"
Matthew Kohler, New Haven, Vermont
"Piesaac Asimov"
Karen Christian, Sacramento, California
"University of Chicago-style Pizza"
Colleen McEwen, Franklin, Massachusetts
"Ghost in the Pizza Shell"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Heuristic Pizza"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
"Beep Dish"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
"Artificial Italiano"
Scott Ludwig, Senoia, Georgia
"M3gaherita"
Troup Miller, Austin, Texas
"R2-Deep Dish"
Tim Nicholson, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
"CAD/CAM, W/Ham"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
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