Your fridge can now store food as well as shopping essentials! This will be made possible through a new partnership between online shopping platform Instacart and Samsung. Samsung's artificial intelligence (AI) technology will now work in such a way that the fridge will automatically recognize when milk, eggs or other food products are running low or running low. In this way, before the user realizes it, this smart fridge will add the required product to the market list through Instacart.
Built-in cameras in Samsung's 'bespoke' fridge doors work through 'AI Vision Inside' technology. They monitor what's in the fridge. This technology, then combined with Instacart's 'product-matching' system, will help create a list of items needed at the right time. Finally, users can easily view the grocery list or market list on the fridge's touchscreen, and order them with just one click. Instacart claims that the products will reach the home in one day.
Samsung says the AI technology can identify up to 37 foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables. In addition, if the user wants to add any other products, they will be added manually in the Samsung Food app or through the refrigerator's touchscreen.
This technology will remind users if they forget to put something in the market list. Through this, people's time and labor will be saved.
Samsung's new Bespoke series of fridges will have Instacart connectivity and older fridges will have it added via an update.
However, during this whole process, users need to keep a close eye on the market listings. The user has to confirm the products that the fridge AI will order. Because AI can sometimes make mistakes! Sometimes cauliflower can be added to the list instead of cabbage. Besides, not everyone likes to buy products of the same brand. So users should take care of these things before instructing the fridge to buy the product.
However, the use of this technology may lead to privacy concerns. As this AI observes the eating habits of users, it can collect their personal information. Targeted advertising trends like on the Internet can begin with this technology. However, Samsung has not yet commented on this matter.
This new initiative by Samsung and Instacart could be a milestone for smart home technology. In the world of the future such inventions will play a big role.
References: Techreader and TechCrunch
