Why is the cheese sandwich the downfall of AI carb counting, even with “3D scanning”?
A slightly rhetorical question, I’ll admit, but a pertinent one. Once again, I have been trying out the latest (read most heavily pushed on Facebook […]
Carb COunting
I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.
Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. […]
Beyond Snaq-qing. Digesting your glucose patterns.
I spent a long time discussing Snaq’s use of AI for food recognition in the previous article. In this one, I’m looking at what it […]
Snaq. A diabetes AI to help you carb count. Badly.
Here we review Snaq, a diabetes management app that aims to simplify carb counting through food photo recognition. Despite its functionality, the app struggles with food identification and portion sizes, often leading to inaccurate outputs. Users must contribute data to improve its learning, raising concerns about its subscription cost versus effectiveness.