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2026 Aprilraincole

About whether voice requests will soon build complete personal apps like a fridge-nutrition tracker.

take pictures of the food in my fridge to compile the nutritional benefits

AI nowadays can't even do this very first step reliably. But since we have accepted AI hallucination collectively as a species, I agree that this future is just around the corner.

AI reliably identifies the food in photos of a fridge and compiles its nutritional content.

Has this happened?

Yes 57 (45%)Not sure 45 (35%)No 26 (20%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.