Digital personal assistants are all the rage this year,
but what about digital personal trainers? Sony has been working on its Lifelog
app and it can now analyze the food
you’re about to eat. It’s simple - just
snap a photo and let the artificial intelligence behind the scenes figure it
out.
The app can use what it has learned about you and the
goals you’ve set for yourself to offer advice on your diet. So it goes beyond
telling you to skip the triple fudge cake, the app will help you adjust your
long-term diet for a change towards a healthier lifestyle.
And here things take an Orwellian twist. Sony is
launching the Meal Image Analysis software in Japan first. There it will
collaborate with businesses which want to keep their employees healthy -
instead of sitting on the desk all day and eating junk food. Call me crazy, but
if employers actually cared, they would provide easily-accessible healthy food
in the office, no need for extra smart software. Oh, well.
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