Original shorts depict how Cognitive Computing changes life in the future

The popular game Steins;Gate is collaborating with IBM's next-generation computer research initiative "Cognitive Computing" on a series of original anime shorts. IBM's Mugendai (Infinity) website is hosting the first Sōmei Eichi no Cognitive Computing video, "Cooking":

Text on sign: Future Gadget Laboratory

Mayuri: Tutturu! Hey hey, listen! Right now, Mayushi and Kurisu...

Kurisu: Are going to make fried chicken.

Okabe & Daru: Huh!? Wh... What did you say...!?

Okabe: Don't! If you do that, this lab will fall into the depths of Hell!

Daru: I'm in firm agreement!

Kurisu: You're acting way over the top.

Mayuri: It's OK. Today, we have a super special secret tool to use.

Okabe: A secret tool? Could it be...!?

Kurisu: It's not the anime-like tool you're imagining. It's this!

Oopa: Hello! I'm Oopa! To be more specific, I'm a cognitive computer within this terminal!

Okabe: Cogni...? Wait, so you're saying that you'll get help from this thing?

Oopa: Yes! I'll support them. I'll intricately give instructions on ingredients, cooking method, and other things.

Daru: They'll be oK this way, right?

Okabe: Fine. I'll believe. Oopa! No, cognitive doll! Show me you can help Mayuri and Kurisu make a perfect dish!

Kurisu: Why are you acting so high and mighty?

Mayuri: Well... That's just Okarin.

Oopa: First, I will show the recipe for the fried chicken.

Kurisu: Chicken thighs, flour, and potato starch.

Mayuri: Then for flavor, sake and soy sauce.

Okabe: So... What is this?

Oopa: Beef, chocolate, apricot puree, flour, eggs, banana, and others.

Okabe: This is completely different from fried chicken!

Daru: This is just sad...

Mayuri: We didn't have the correct ingredients in the lab...

Okabe: Then why didn't you go buy them!?

Kurisu: But it sure is weird... There's no potato starch, but there's a rare ingredient like apricot puree... Who was it who- Huh!? Hashida!?

Daru: I figured that I might get a girlfriend and we'd cook at the lab.

Kurisu: Leaving Hashida's delusions aside, no matter what kind of logic you use, it's probably impossible to make fried chicken with these ingredients...

Okabe: Just go buy ingredients.

Oopa: Well then, let's think about what we can make with these ingredients.

Mayuri: Wow! You can do that!?

Oopa: Leave it to me!

Mayuri: It's done!

Kurisu: It's complete!

Okabe: Wh... What is this...?

Oopa: Chocolate buritos!

Daru: It doesn't look bad.

Mayuri: Right? Okarin, Daru, take a taste test.

Okabe: Hmph... Fine. You all worked so hard. I'll resolve myself. Daru, please go ahead first.

Daru: Wha-!? You said all that, and you're just going to push it on me!?

Okabe: You just said it didn't look bad!!

Mayuri: Okarin... If you act like you hate it so much, Mayushi gets sad...

Okabe: ...Fine! It'll be OK if I eat it, right!? ...It's good.

Kurisu: Well that was obvious. You got too freaked out.

Okabe: It appears I'm seeing- No, tasting an illusion. Yes, this is the possibility of technology...

Kurisu: You aren't honest with your feelings.

Mayuri: And it's all thanks to Oopa.

Okabe: This is so good.



"Cooking" and the other three shorts ("Navigation," "Fashion," and "Kaigi" or Meeting) show how computers will improve life in the future.

The original game features a plot-critical "IBN 5100" computer, modeled after the real-life IBM 5100 computer that IBM sold in 1975. The current collaboration came about when Steins;Gate creator and MAGES. President Chiyomaru Shikura talked with IBM Japan's representatives.

Source: MoCA News