AI for People and Business

Chapter 10. An AI Vision Example

Now that we’ve covered AIPB, and how to create an AI vision in detail, let’s create an AIPB AI vision using a hypothetical example.

Our AI vision example was inspired by Grant Achatz, a highly renowned chef and restaurateur, famous for his Chicago-based restaurant, Alinea. Alinea was ranked the second best restaurant in the United States and seventh in the world according to Restaurant magazine’s list of the world’s 50 best restaurants. Alinea was also awarded three Michelin stars eight consecutive years at the time this book was published!

Very unfortunately, Mr. Achatz was diagnosed with stage 4b tongue cancer at the young age of 33. Despite most oncology experts telling Achatz that the only treatment option required removing 75% of his tongue and effectively destroying his sense of taste permanently, another opinion provided by a University of Chicago Medicine oncologist named Everett Vokes suggested an innovative treatment option. His plan was geared toward saving Achatz’ tongue and taste buds with targeted chemotherapy and radiation, which proved to be successful, although it did result in a temporary loss of his sense of taste. Today, Achatz is now cancer free.

Achatz’s sense of taste eventually returned, and his story presents a compelling AI opportunity. Let’s build an AIPB vision based on this example. What if technology-based mouth sensors could be combined with AI algorithms to map sensory inputs to what we call tastes? Let’s try to ...