Image Scoping Machines

In the “As Much as I Loathe AI I Cannot Escape It” department, I’ve been accumulating some stray experiences with technologies that analyze, interpret information from photos, likely somewhere inside lurks what we lump as AI. And indeed, it’s useful. And interesting. Here’s a buffet of tidbit experiences and no grand conclusion. Carbs and Nutrition from Photos of My Food A huge key to my improvement over the last year or two of managing my diabetes is the RXFood app — right from the web site “Because we know what’s on your plate, we deliver better health outcomes- Clinical grade, AI-driven personalized nutrition powered by RxFood” At meal time, from a photo I tak eof the food I plant to eat, the app analyzes it and determines a total amount of carbohydrates. Sending this number to my insulin pump delivers the appropriate amount of insulin to ideally keep my blood sugar from spiking high or dropping low. I do my best to help the app by typing some general description like “scrambled…