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It's not exactly an ai-task, I guess? Like pretty much the only ai-related thing there is to classify stuff in ocr-ed receipts (technically, one can opencv whatever is in the fridge, but I suspect it won't be reliable enough).
Bruh. If AI is being taught to drive cars on the open road then I feel like cameras to detect what's in your fridge is pathetically easy in comparison and very much an AI task
Probably would make sense to start with the receipts for what you purchase and aggregate lists from there (pantry, freezer, fridge, etc.).
Yeah, kinda. Except you'll likely need a camera or two for each shelf of the fridge (given the layout remains unchanged), and also you have to make sure they don't get covered with ice/spilled milk/whatever or blocked by a box of some stuff. Aaaalternatively, you install a receipt scanner and touch scrreen which asks you what you took and updates an internal db accordingly.
No, not even kinda. Fully. Amazon has stores you can walk in and take whatever you want off the shelf and leave. If you put it back somewhere else, even if not on the same shelf, it can still track that.
A fridge is a joke.
Given you re-design it from the ground up, that'll work 🤷
I think it would be a perfect function for ai. It’s more than just determining what is/is not in the fridge. Compiling the grocery list and determining which store has the best price for the goods would be great but also the ai knowing the mode of transportation as well as the weather and time of day would be critical as well to determine if it is worth going to multiple stores or not.
AI could potentially do, “write me a python script that scrapes a website for grocery prices and compares them with another” or something.
What is an "ai task"? Their task is anything we assign them to do.
The problem is that "AI" is a completely ill-defined term. The commenter above used the definition of it just being a more complex program and then they argued that you don't need a more complex program. That's as good of a definition as any other.
By "ai tasks" I mean smth where ai is actually useful, such as object/pattern recognition, object classification, making predictions based on past data, etc. Can one train an ai to predict they need to buy onions when they have less than X in their fridge? Yap. Can one do the same with an if statement and prevent themselves from running into issues when ambient temperature on Mars rises? Also, yes.
An AI task would be literally anything impossible or slow for a human to do that a computer could do instead (without having developers specifically work for months to provide explicit instructions on how to do it). Kinda weird to see technology evolving like this and still set arbitrary defining parameters like that
Hmm, guess I wasn't clear. It's not "arbitrary defining parameters", but more of "ai is a tool that better solves specific types of tasks" kind of thing. Can you replace an if statement with an ai? Yes, but that's somewhat like hammering a screw (that is to say, inefficient).
AI is just a program that learns from the information you provide it to predict the next element in a series.
If you want a program to check whats in your fridge, a simple spreadsheet updated whenever you empty a bag is just as good.
An use for AI could be to update the spreadsheet with images from the inside of the fridge but you would need cameras that can work inside fridges.
so it is an ai task, but requires some setup
Why are so many of you trivializing the fact that providing perfectly formatted input data that having set logic figure something out is a VERY different thing than providing a firehose of data and then asking the software to make sense of it? Like have you been paying attention here at all?
In my experience, most things touted as AI are mostly rule-based or graph-based, with a sprinkling of some classification somewhere for a manager to get that sweet VC money.
That's not to say that this couldn't be done with AI, particularly one that is trained on top of a rule-based system to find the best options for given circumstances.