Real AI for the Workaday World

Artificial intelligence might one day be used to power genuinely humanlike cyborgs or other figments of humanity's fertile imagination. For now, Ingo Stork is using the technology to help restaurant chains waste less food and do more with fewer workers. Dr. Stork is co-founder of PreciTaste, a startup that uses AI-based sensors and algorithms to accomplish one fairly specific task: predict how much food people will order at any given moment, and make sure that it's being prepared in a timely fashion.