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Curious to hear people's thoughts on AI applications in the food space.
Curious to hear people's thoughts on AI applications in the food space.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ai-po...
I used Hello Fresh for a year, not sure if recipe variety was my problem. I think there's a lot of other possibilities to use LLMs in that product though, e.g. to help users express complex preferences, or to create best menus and schedules out of existing recipes. I'd say tampering with recipes would be the worst part of the AI integration. I think it's unfortunate that businesses look into using AI for something es…
I tried hello fresh. Unpacking a meal to find a fast food-sized mayonnaise packet as ingredient made me feel deeply sad
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I tried hello fresh. Unpacking a meal to find a fast food-sized mayonnaise packet as ingredient made me feel deeply sad
Why? Are you going to make your own mayonnaise for 2 tablespoons?
- This company and its supply chain went to the trouble of packaging a single serving of mayonnaise for me to personally discard as my token contribution to waste. Sure, an extra mayo packet won't make a difference, but simply not caring feels bad, you know?
- I have a jar of mayo in the fridge. I didn't even need this.
- Come to think of it, everything in this meal kit is wrapped in packaging that may well outlive me, depending on where it ends up. All for one meal's worth of food that I could have obtained more cheaply, less wastefully, and with more control over customization had I mustered the effort to plan ahead.
I feel like generating recipe ideas/titles is the easy part, and advanced AI techniques are not necessary. Even the article notes that there is not really any difference between 1 round of training and 40 rounds of training with their model. Actually generating a recipe is obviously much harder, and should be effectively impossible unless you include a humanoid robot that can cook and taste. I think the best you coul…
I feel like generating recipe ideas/titles is the easy part, and advanced AI techniques are not necessary. Even the article notes that there is not really any difference between 1 round of training and 40 rounds of training with their model. Actually generating a recipe is obviously much harder, and should be effectively impossible unless you include a humanoid robot that can cook and taste. I think the best you coul…
Would be interesting if you could prompt, LoRA distill, or use modern LLM tricks against a well-labeled and curated set, similar to how other tagging problems are handled with modern pretrained models.
[0] https://open.nytimes.com/our-tagged-ingredients-data-is-now-...
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Why? Are you going to make your own mayonnaise for 2 tablespoons?
I'm not who you're replying to, but have experienced the same sadness when using meal kits. Why? - This company and its supply chain went to the trouble of packaging a single serving of mayonnaise for me to personally discard as my token contribution to waste. Sure, an extra mayo packet won't make a difference, but simply not caring feels bad, you know? - I have a jar of mayo in the fridge. I didn't even need this. -…
I used Hello Fresh for a year, not sure if recipe variety was my problem. I think there's a lot of other possibilities to use LLMs in that product though, e.g. to help users express complex preferences, or to create best menus and schedules out of existing recipes. I'd say tampering with recipes would be the worst part of the AI integration. I think it's unfortunate that businesses look into using AI for something es…