00:00Pickles in a lemon tart? It's one of the flavor combinations AI has come up with in Japan.
00:05Japanese convenience store chains are turning to AI for ideas they might not have thought of themselves.
00:11And some of those ideas bring together unlikely combinations.
00:17Take this canelé, a French pastry made with sweet potato puree and finished with caramel sauce.
00:24The chain behind it, Family Mart, says it aimed to find a fresh idea that customers would want to buy.
00:30At rival chain Lawson, AI suggested adding pickles to a lemon tart.
00:35It's good. It's good. It's good.
00:41I thought it was good, but it's good. It's good, isn't it?
00:45It's good, isn't it? It's good. It's a different taste, but it's good.
00:49It's good. It's not a thought.
00:52Pickles and this, I don't think it's a human being.
00:57Just AI.
00:58Lawson put the flavor on sale in Tokyo and surrounding regions in September.
01:03We do eat well in October.
01:03We alloway for it to be among you in the year.
