We all know there are apps that let you take a picture of your food and count the calories. Well, keep your forks and spoons handy because researchers at the University of Waterloo are taking it to the next level! According to Sky News, they are working on AI that can monitor every bite you eat in order to track your calorie intake. Yes, you read that right! This high-tech system will work with forks and chopsticks too! Can you imagine having your utensils keep track of your every bite? Well, the future is here!
This new technology evaluates the nutritional value of your diet by analysing videos of the food you are eating! “We are moving towards using larger language models like ChatGPT (…) to understand what is in food or maybe a basic question (like) ‘Is this chicken?'” Yuhao Chen at the University of Waterloo in Canada told New Scientist, as quoted by Sky News.
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Talking about the benefits of this technology, Yuhao Chen says, “In most cases, especially for people eating at home, the dish has no name. It can just be a dish made by mixing things available in the refrigerator.”
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada say that “current (…) food portion estimation algorithms assume that users take pictures of their food once or twice.” “(This) can be inconvenient and may fail to capture foods that are not visible from a top-down perspective, such as ingredients submerged in a stew.”
According to the researchers, this new AI tracking system can calculate the amount of food you are eating with only a 4.4% error margin.
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Currently, the system doesn’t recognize the food you put on your spoon. Trainers are teaching it how to recognize what you’re eating. Once fully developed, the system will be able to recognize a wide variety of foods, including ones it hasn’t seen before.
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