What a dumb article. The picture of the sandwich is essentially just a picture of bread. You can’t see what’s inside. A human wouldn’t be able to tell you. These are essentially AI hit pieces.

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tsimionescu 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is based on a real app that someone is selling to real people. It's not a hit against AI, but it is very much a legitimate hit against uses of LLMs for this purpose.

Also, if LLMs worked as they are often advertised, they should have easily been able to answer "there isn't enough information in this picture to give you an accurate estimate. Try taking a picture of the label, or at least of the inside of the sandwich, or list the ingredients used".

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sjhatfield 17 hours ago | parent [-]

iAPS is not software you pay for. This is open source software to dose insulin where you assume full responsibility for the outcomes.

	▲	tsimionescu 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's irrelevant to my point. Feel free to replace "selling" with "distributing" - my point stands: using an LLM to estimate carbs from a picture is a real use case that real software developers are suggesting to real people is a real solution. It's not some contrived idea that the researcher concocted to make AI look bad. The GP, and much of the thread, is basically acting as if it should be obvious to anyone who is not an idiot that this is not possible to do precisely; and that the researcher just made up some use case that LLMs can't do and wrote a paper about it to disparage AI.

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nextlevelwizard 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And it can be made better easily. Take a picture of the nutrition label of the bread and cheese first and then feed in this picture and you should get way better results

	▲	sjhatfield 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The sandwich example is silly because you almost certainly know the fill nutiritonal info from the packaging so just use that...

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lolc 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As a diabetic I have done this exact exercise: Look at photos and guess carbs. Two slices of bread is easy mode.

Why assume trick ingredients?