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A lot of the testimonial photos for this show the AI literally deciphering the text Nutrition Information label.

Any other interpretive situation based solely on a camera has so many inherent flaws as to render this almost useless.



I think even if you have volume factored in like photogrammetry/lidar, the inside of the food could be something else too like a chunk of meat inside potatoes


The nutritional information label that lists the calories in the food? What is the point of that?


Steelmanning this: You take your phone out and snap a picture and it gets added to a running total without typing into a tiny keyboard or doing any math. You consult your total next time you're thinking of eating.

Critiquing: You still need to figure out serving sizes - it's going to need to ask how many servings. Nutrition labels also aren't available for any number of things.




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