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From your two comments: a service that can deliver fresh or at least reasonably high quality food, which is customizable to individual preferences I'm envisio
by Mz 9y ago
From your two comments:
a service that can deliver fresh or at least reasonably high quality food, which is customizable to individual preferences
I'm envisioning a facility tied to an Amazon warehouse or something similar that might be preparing food for >10000 people every day
I really don't see these two things being reconcilable. I eat at eateries very regularly and I become a "regular customer" and people know my name and become familiar with the tweaks I am going to make to my order. Over time, preferences of mine get learned by regular staff.
I don't think AI is anywhere near that point. There are a thousand small things going on that you would have to think to program into the AI and probably wouldn't without deploying and iterating.
- opportune 9y agoYou and I have different definitions of high quality then. I am thinking of the kind of food produced at the Googleplex or at a similar facility, except with slightly more choice. I would wager most would view this similarly, since most people (at least nobody I know) aren't gourmands with personal relationships at where they eat. I'm not talking about a premium restaurant experience, more like restaurant takeout a la ubereats but without the prohibitively high cost.
- Mz 9y agoI don't have the money for premium restaurants. I'm quite poor. But I am a gourmand and tend to have personal relationships with people where I eat regularly. Guilty as charged. So, um, yeah, it sounds like your idea of quality food and mine are not at all on the same page. I think there are ways to get quality food at a reasonable price (I think this because of the aforementioned not wealthy status and years of eating well anyway), but I have serious trouble imagining that a meal-in-a-box delivery service would be it and I have difficulty imagining your idea would be it either. But thank you for clarifying.
- prawn 9y agoAre you talking about quality food or quality, personalised food? At a pricepoint, I think you could definitely manage the former. I think the latter is less common and is best left to premium services or home cooks more often than not.
- Mz 9y agoMy comments in this section of this discussion are basically in response to this: What there is really a market for is a service that can deliver fresh or at least reasonably high quality food, which is customizable to individual preferences, for a reasonable cost (~$5 or so), on-demand, and in a timely manner.