Artificial Intelligence Informs Eating

The FoodVisor app harnesses the image recognition power of deep learning convolutional neural networks to recognize the food on a plate. "CAUTION" my iPhone warns me, highlighting the word for good measure in a bright red circle. No, I wasn't about to overuse my data plan, or even try to make sense of a Donald Trump tweet. Instead, I had, like some Instagram-obsessive, just taken a photo of my breakfast for the first time, and an artificial intelligence (AI) resident on my phone didn't like what it saw. My poached eggs and toast also included … a sausage.