Chefling
There were a few products on the CES show floor using AI to identify the content and dietary information of a plate of food. There are already plenty of smart fridges out there that let you see inside your fridge to see if you’re out of milk, but what struck me about Smarter’s internal fridge camera was that they use similar technology to facial recognition.
The “new” cameras aren’t necessarily as new as they seem, but the product slate including the new FridgeCam2 has some new editions with bigger batteries, including one with a fist-sized battery that the company claims lasts up to three months before needing a recharge. The company rep told me they were using DeepMind technology and machine learning to identify products within the fridge.
Smarter recently purchased the company Chefling, so it wants to add the startup’s food database for its image recognition tech.
These products make me imagine a world where the predictive software was used to identify yogurt brands rather than the tool for dystopian levels of over-policing, especially when such systems fail they can pose harmful, even deadly consequences. -Kyle Barr
