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MIT built the ‘Shazam for food’ app that HBO’s 'Silicon Valley' couldn’t
This app has all the ingredients to be successful.
The team at MIT CSAIL has created Pic2Recipe, a new AI-driven software that can spit out ingredients and cooking directions for a dish just by analyzing a picture of it.
Think Shazam for food -- kind of like that app the guys from HBO's "Silicon Valley" tried building.
How does Pic2Recipe work?
CSAIL researchers borrowed from cooking websites to build a database of over 1 million recipes and then connected it to an aggregate of modified versions of pre-existing food recognition platforms.
The team then trained a neural network to link a picture that’s uploaded to it with one in its database of food images and, eventually, a recipe.