AI will help you lose weight. All you need to do is record yourself eating

Artificial intelligence will soon be able to monitor every spoonful of food we eat and precisely calculate the amount of calories and nutrients.

No more counting calories yourself

Scientists from Canada are working on new technology that will be able to analyze video recordingsshowing what we eat and in what quantities to determine the nutritional value of our diet.

Current food portion estimation algorithms assume that users take photos of their meals several times a day. This may be inconvenient and makes it impossible to capture all the ingredients of meals, e.g. we will not be able to see the exact contents of the stew.

– say scientists from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Instead of looking at a photo of what's on the plate, the new AI system will track every bite we eat. Thanks to this, we will receive more precise data. AI is able to calculate the volume of food consumed with a really small margin of error, about 4%.

Work on the new technology is ongoing. Scientists strive to ensure that the system recognizes exactly what we eat. So that he can easily recognize as many food products as possible, even those he has not seen before.

We are moving on to using large language models such as ChatGPT. We want to be able to ask questions like: “Is that a chicken?”

– say scientists.

There is something to work on. New dietary technology must be able to recognize even a dish without a name. After all, in the case of people who cook at home, a meal is often a mix of what they have in the fridge.

Last month, the World Health Organization also launched its own AI-powered health promoter. SARAH (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health) is to answer users' questions about diet and health 24 hours a day.

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