On this week’s episode of the AI Podcast, developer Tim Anglade shares his experience developing “Not Hotdog,” an app that spawned as a joke on HBO’s Silicon Valley TV show, but is now available on iOS and Android stores. Anglade, who also works as a consultant for the series, used NVIDIA GPUs, TensorFlow, and Keras to train the app.
Users can now determine if any food or object they photograph is or isn’t a hot dog. “It’s a defining problem of our time,” quipped Anglade. In the show, “Not Hotdog” was developed when character Jian-Yang tries to create a food recognition AI app, only to have it backfire when it can only identify hot dogs. To develop the app, Anglade relied on existing research and libraries covering image recognition.