Did you burn calories today? In recent years, with the improvement of our living standards and the change of daily habits, obesity has gradually become a problem that confuses countless people. In order to achieve the goal of weight loss, people have used 18 martial arts, spinning, yoga, acupuncture, weight loss pills, light fasting... But for most people, weight loss is always the future. After fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, the body weight was not lost at all in the end.
Recently, many scientists and large companies engaged in artificial intelligence research have begun to use AI to get involved in the field of weight loss, trying to make us burn more calories with the help of artificial intelligence.
Go against the sky!U.S. scientists use AI to identify obese communities from space
Obesity is a complex health problem. There are many factors that cause obesity, one of which is the environment in which we live. According to research, the more overweight friends around people, the higher the probability of being obese. 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 artificial intelligence to connect with satellite maps of American cities to monitor the obesity rate in the community.
Researchers from the University of Washington said in a newly published paper: “We have proposed a method to comprehensively assess the relationship between the prevalence of adult obesity and the built environment. This method involves extracting the surrounding environment from high-resolution satellite images. Physical characteristics." These people input 150,000 high-resolution satellite images from Google Maps into a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), which is an AI that uses deep learning to independently analyze and recognize patterns in data sets.
These data cover 1,695 census areas 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. These experiences can help them analyze the built environment of the entire city and identify features such as roads, buildings, trees, water, and land.
In addition, the researchers also used the estimated obesity prevalence of 500 urban projects to build a new model to evaluate these characteristics (plus data points of interest such as gas stations, shopping centers, parks, and pet shops) and research The relationship between the prevalence of obesity in the region. This is not the first time scientists have done such a thing, but researchers say their technology is the most comprehensive effort to date.
According to their research results, open green spaces can support people to do more physical activity, which is usually good for public health and densely crowded neighborhoods surrounded by roads and lacking greenery. The opposite is true.
Nestlé provides users with personalized diet through AI
In the process of losing weight, controlling your diet is a very critical step for success. There are nearly 50 kinds of nutrients in food, 6 categories, in addition to fat and carbohydrates, other nutrients should not be underestimated.
According to the "Asahi Shimbun" report, Nestlé Japan has launched a new free service in Japan since May this year. People use smartphones to take photos of food while eating, and use the communication software "LINE" to send them to the official Nestlé Japan account. The calorie and nutrient content of food can be analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, the account can also analyze whether the user's intake of protein, fat and other nutrients is insufficient according to the user's age.
Nestlé Japan has also launched capsules that can be supplemented with nutrients according to individual circumstances since October last year.
Kozo Takaoka, President and CEO of Nestlé Japan, believes that “health issues related to food and nutrition have become a big problem, and Nestlé must solve this problem on a global scale and make it its mission in the 21st century.”
Previously, in September 2017, Nestlé also announced the launch of Nestlé's first voice recognition smart home nutrition and health assistant with JD Group-Nestlé XiaoAI. The chairman and CEO of Nestlé Greater China, Luo Shide, said that the Chinese market is changing very fast. Nestlé will reposition and update its strategy every two to three years. In this cross-border layout, we hope to use Nestlé’s small AI to provide families with Entertainment and knowledge content, on the other hand, use smart products to collect user information and update consumer databases to understand user needs, provide a basis for product innovation and improvement, and introduce more solutions.
Google artificial intelligence wants to create a fitness coach all the time
Many AI giants are developing AI fitness coaches. Let’s take Google as an example. They are developing a wearable fitness assistant called Google Coach.
Although there are already many fitness wearable devices to help us track our own fitness and monitor vital signs, Google Coach created by Google hopes to go further on this basis, like a complete fitness coach, guiding you all the time Live a healthy life.
Because Google Coach can recommend suitable fitness methods and track the user's fitness progress by analyzing the user's fitness and physiological data. If users miss the fitness plan provided by Google Coach, Google Coach will also provide users with some recommended alternative solutions to make up for it.
Google Coach's service not only monitors the user's various activity data, but also recommends appropriate nutritional meals based on the user's physical fitness. It will provide users with diet arrangements for the next week, follow the principle of "three points by training, seven points by eating" for fitness exercises, and truly specify a careful weight loss plan for users like a fitness coach.
In addition, Google Coach can also provide users with some daily health tips, such as how much water to drink, when to take medication, or how many steps should be taken, and so on.
AI+ weight loss is a panacea?In fact, we still have to rely on personal self-discipline
Data and intelligence are the prerequisites for AI to help us achieve our weight loss goals when artificial intelligence is involved in the field of weight loss. Every one of us will be asked by a fitness coach to do a full-body physical test the first time we go to the gym. This data will become an important basis for fitness coaches to set fitness goals for us in the future.
But with the popularity of smart wearable devices, we can complete the assessment of our own physical condition through AI, and record our own sports performance in real time under the monitoring of AI.
Many people believe that fitness coaches will gradually disappear in artificial intelligence. At present, many fitness smart devices have begun to introduce more and more various targeted themed training courses suitable for fat loss, shaping and muscle gain, and it can be effective by monitoring the completion and standard of the user's action, combined with voice reminders. Help users perform fitness exercises scientifically, safely and efficiently. This kind of data judgment on the magnitude and effect of body movement is beyond the control of human fitness coaches.
But after all, weight loss still needs to be done by our own perseverance. What artificial intelligence can do is to provide us with assistance in sports and life. Through transparent and real-time monitoring and question types, we can control our sports ability and body at any time. Condition. But relying solely on the help of artificial intelligence is far from enough. There are too many factors that affect the success of weight loss. Only persistent determination, self-disciplined exercise and diet control are the most indispensable factors for weight loss.