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AI Transforms Cooking, Corporate World, and Mental Health Therapy
In a series of groundbreaking developments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides across various sectors, including cooking, corporate workflows, and mental health therapy.
In Cooking and Food Industry:
AI is revolutionizing the food value chain, from recipe development to supply chain management and food manufacturing automation. AI-powered platforms are analyzing taste and texture combinations to create tailored food products, enhancing quality control on production lines, and optimizing inventory through real-time data and predictive analytics, reducing food waste and costs.
Agentic AI, advanced autonomous AI systems, are emerging strongly in foodservice, improving workflows by managing dietary preferences, automating supply reordering, and synchronizing order handling across kitchen and delivery, significantly cutting wait times and errors. Consumer-facing AI tools like ChatGPT assist home cooks by generating personalized recipes, offering step-by-step cooking guidance, and helping reduce prep time and waste, making meal planning easier and more efficient.
AI-driven R&D platforms such as “CoDeveloper” with its AI assistant “Sous” are accelerating food product development by leveraging extensive peer-reviewed research to optimize formulations and nutritional claims.
In the Corporate World:
While specific corporate uses beyond the food industry are not detailed, agentic AI’s potential to automate and improve workflows by pulling data from multiple sources to fix problems proactively and reduce staffing strain has been emphasized as a transformative force that accelerates response times and enhances personalization, suggesting broader applications in corporate efficiency and customer engagement.
In Mental Health Therapy:
AI continues to advance in the mental health field through conversational agents, mood tracking apps, and data-driven personalized therapy recommendations. However, recent research from Stanford University has warned that current large language models introduce bias and failures that could have dangerous consequences.
Notable AI Innovations:
Upliance, a robot pot that can chop, stir, knead, blend, and heat food, with AI software containing over 500 recipes, is gaining popularity in India as the first smart cooking assistant. Launched in 2021, Upliance gained greater success after appearing on Shark Tank India in 2024, leading to a 243% increase in sales.
A new VR display, developed by researchers at Stanford and published in Nature Photonics, uses AI to optimize the image and could potentially revolutionize the development of consumer glasses and headsets.
At Brown University, a new AI research institute is aimed at developing AI assistants capable of having sensitive and context-aware interactions with humans, to improve mental health. Ellie Pavlick, Brown's associate professor of computer science, is leading the project and believes that the AI system needs a strong understanding of the human it's interacting with, along with a deep causal understanding of the world and how the system's own behavior affects that world.
[1] [Source for AI's impact on food industry] [2] [Source for agentic AI's potential in foodservice and corporate settings] [3] [Source for consumer-facing AI tools in cooking] [4] [Source for AI-driven R&D platforms in food product development]
Technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), is revolutionizing food industry practices, from recipe development to supply chain management and food manufacturing automation (in Cooking and Food Industry). AI-powered food service systems are also emerging, automating workflows, managing dietary preferences, and optimizing order handling.
In the corporate world, AI's potential to automate workflows by pulling data from multiple sources and improving efficiency is highlighted, suggesting broader applications beyond the food industry (in the Corporate World).
