Kroger Uses AI to Match a Picture of Your Fridge Shelf with a Recipe

The grocer created Chefbot with 360i as a way to cut food waste

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Kroger is using visual recognition AI to help people make better use of the leftovers in their fridge.

The grocery chain and agency 360i recently launched a Twitter account called Chefbot that can identify up to three foods in user-submitted images and search a database of recipes for the best match. The makers claim the bot is trained to recognize 2,000 ingredients and pulls from a log of around 20,000 recipes.

While the tool is fairly rudimentary for now, Kroger

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