Caterers in China Are Using AI To Spot Unhygienic Cooks, Report Says (venturebeat.com)

If you've ever harbored doubts about the hygiene of the cooks flipping your burger and frying your fries, you're definitely not the only one. From a report: Thepaper.cn reports that local authorities in eastern China have tapped artificial intelligence (AI) to clamp down on unsanitary cooks in kitchens -- and to reward those who adhere to best practices. According to the report, a camera-based system currently being piloted in the Zhejiang city of Shaoxing automatically recognizes "poor [sanitation] habits" and alerts managers to offending workers via a mobile app. It's reportedly the fruit of a six-year project -- Sunshine Kitchen -- that seeks to bring transparency to food preparation in catering, hotels, school cafeterias, and restaurants.

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Re:That is a great idea

[CrimsonAvenger]

Some may find that as creepy but honestly if I were a cook I would welcome something that alerted me if I could be doing better with food safety.

So, how do you feel about TFA, which isn't talking about something to alert the cooks to food safety problems, but alerting the EMPLOYER of the cook to food safety problems caused by the cook?

Myself, I wouldn't mind at all using an app that tried to teach me better food safety by warning me when I was doing something dumb. But I'm not that enamored of the idea of an app to warn my employer that I'm doing something dumb without bothering to let me in on the problem (and attempt to correct it) first....