. >> janel victor is the senior editor of food and wine at "the chronicle" and helped develop chowbot. what sort of things did you ask it at first? what have you tried? >> well, at first we tried to stump it a bit, but in terms of actual things i've asked. where can i get great pizza near the 16th street bart station, where can i get delicious detroit-style pizza? where could i get gluten-free food in oakland? all kinds of things that our critics have written about over the last two years and then get spit out by this bot. >> that's the exciting thing, right? this is really good information. there's no computing phrase garbage in and garbage out and this is chronicle reviews dating back from a long time. >> yeah. well, it's funny, before woe started developing this i was just poking around on chatgpt and asking it where should i get brunch in oakland and it recommended the kitchen which, unfortunately, is a wonderful restaurant that closed years ago. so these chatbots that just look at the internet give you a lot of bad, outdated information. so what we did was we feed our bot only gu