alt Hacker NewsFrom the text of the article I believe the author is implying there are apps doing exactly this, and so this is why it was studied that way.
Had the author written the article themselves rather than an LLM their motivation probably would have been clearer.
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ozgung • today at 1:51 PM
The author uses the prompts and method from an open-source app that connects to insulin pump, a medical device. I think AI food identification is an experimental feature in the app.
> The prompt was adapted from the one used in the iAPS open-source automated insulin delivery system — it’s a real production prompt, not a toy example.
https://github.com/Artificial-Pancreas/iAPS
I think these are the prompts in the app: https://github.com/Artificial-Pancreas/iAPS/tree/5eabe22e7e2...
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> there are apps doing exactly this
Yeah, for sure there are. And people will just ask ChatGPT as well.
The funny thing is that for people who are just trying to lose weight without managing any health issues precisely, this type of extreme variance doesn't really matter, because the mere act of consciously quantifying food consumption is, based on my experience counting calories, the single biggest factor in success with weight loss.