Many large companies engaged in artificial intelligence research have begun to use AI to help lose weight, trying to make us burn more calories through AI. Have you burned calories today?
Your obesity has been identified by AI
With the improvement of our living standards and the changes in daily habits, obesity has gradually become a problem that has plagued countless people. In order to achieve the goal of weight loss, people have used 18 martial arts, spinning, yoga, acupuncture, diet pills, light fasting … but for most people, weight loss is always the future.
Obesity is a complex health problem, and there are many factors that cause obesity. One of them is the environment in which we live. According to research, the more friends there are overweight, the higher the probability of obesity. In addition, the greening of the urban environment, infrastructure and other factors affect our weight by affecting our sports habits. So some American scientists began to use the link between artificial intelligence and US urban satellite maps to monitor the obesity rate in the community.
Researchers from the University of Washington said in a recent paper: “We propose a comprehensive approach to assessing the relationship between adult obesity prevalence and the built environment, which involves extracting surrounding images from high-resolution satellite images. Physical characteristics.” These people imported 150,000 high-resolution satellite images from Google Maps into the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), an AI that uses deep learning to independently analyze and identify patterns in data sets.
The data covers 1,695 census censuses in six different cities, including Bellevue, Seattle, Tacoma, Los Angeles, Memphis and San Antonio. In this case, the neural network used by the researchers has been pre-trained with approximately 1.2 million images, which can help them analyze the building environment of the entire city and identify features such as roads, buildings, trees, water and land.
In addition, the researchers used the estimates of obesity prevalence in 500 urban projects to create new models that evaluated these characteristics (plus interest points such as gas stations, shopping centers, parks, and pet stores) and research. The relationship between the prevalence of obesity in the region. According to their findings, open green spaces can support people to do more physical activity, which is often good for public health, densely crowded, surrounded by roads and lacking green areas. The opposite is true.
Since AI can recognize obesity, can it be used to help lose weight?
Personalized dietary advice via AI
Controlling diet is a critical step in success in losing weight. There are nearly 50 kinds of nutrients in food, 6 categories, in addition to fats and carbohydrates, other nutrients can not be ignored.
According to the Asahi Shimbun, Nestlé Japan has launched a new free service in Japan since May this year. People use their smartphones to take food photos while eating, and use the communication software “LINE” to send them to Nestlé Japan official account. The calorie and nutrient content of the food can be analyzed by artificial intelligence. In addition, the account can also analyze whether the intake of nutrients such as protein and fat is insufficient according to the age of the user.
Nestlé Japan has also launched capsules that can be supplemented with nutrients according to individual conditions since October last year.
Kozo Takaoka
Health issues related to food and nutrition have become a big issue, and Nestlé must address this issue globally as a mission for the 21st century.
Previously, in September 2017, Nestlé also announced the launch of Nestle XiaoAI, Nestlé’s first voice-recognition smart family nutrition health assistant, with China’s Jingdong Group. Rashid Aleem Qureshi, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé Greater China, said: “The Chinese market is changing very fast. Nestlé will reposition and update its strategy every two to three years. For this cross-border layout, we hope to use “Nestle XiaoAI”. To provide entertainment and knowledge for the family, and to collect user information and update the consumer database with smart products, to understand the needs of users, to provide a basis for product innovation and improvement, and to introduce more solutions. ”
Create an AI fitness instructor who is always at your side
Many AI giants are developing AI fitness instructors. Let’s take Google as an example. They are developing a wearable health fitness assistant called Google Coach.
Although there are already many fitness wearable devices to help us track our fitness and monitor life characteristics, Google Coach created by Google hopes to go further on this basis, like a complete fitness trainer, guiding you all the time. Have a healthy life.
Because Google Coach can analyze the user’s fitness and physiological data, recommend appropriate fitness methods for users, and track the user’s fitness progress. If a user misses a fitness program offered by Google Coach, Google Coach will also provide users with some recommended alternative solutions to make up for it.
Google Coach’s services not only monitor the user’s activity data, but also recommend appropriate nutritional meals based on the user’s physical fitness. It will provide users with dietary arrangements for the next week, follow the principle of “30% relying on exercise and 70% relying on diet” in fitness exercise, and truly assign a careful weight loss plan to the user like a fitness instructor.
In addition, Google Coach can also provide users with some daily health tips, such as how much water to drink, when to take drugs, or how many steps should be taken.
The core of weight loss is still dependent on personal self-discipline
Data and intelligence in the field of artificial intelligence involved in the field of weight loss is the premise that AI helps us achieve our goal of weight loss. For the first time, each of us will be asked by a fitness instructor to do a full-body physical examination. This data will become an important basis for future fitness coaches to set fitness goals for us.
However, with the popularity of smart wearable devices, we can complete the assessment of our physical condition through AI, and record our own sports performance in real time under the monitoring of AI.
At present, many fitness smart devices have begun to introduce a variety of targeted themed training courses for fat reduction, shaping and muscle augmentation, and can be combined with voice reminders by monitoring the user’s movement completion and standardization. Effectively help users to exercise in a scientific, safe and efficient manner. This kind of data judgment on the magnitude and effect of body movement is beyond the control of human fitness coaches. In other words, AI coaches are much stricter than human coaches, as in the movie Black Mirror. But, do you really want that scene to happen in reality?
After all, weight loss still needs a task that can be accomplished by one’s own perseverance. What artificial intelligence can do is to provide us with the auxiliary of sports life. Through transparent, real-time monitoring and different programs, we can control our sports at any time. Ability and physical condition. Personally, it is far from enough to rely on the help of artificial intelligence to lose weight. There are too many factors that affect the success of weight loss. Perseverance, self-discipline and proper diet control are essential factors for weight loss success.
