LINE adds meal-photo logging and nutrition estimates to Agent i
LY Corporation has added a meal assistant to Agent i that accepts photographs and short food descriptions, including through a linked LINE account. The service estimates calories and nutrients and uses earlier entries to suggest later meals. Daily and weekly reviews accompany the food log, while the company warns that AI output may be inaccurate or incomplete.
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A food log can start inside LINE chat
LY Corporation, the company behind LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN services, has added a meal-recording assistant to Agent i. Users can send a photograph or describe food in a few words, and the assistant estimates calories and nutrients. The feature works inside Agent i; linking the assistant’s official LINE account provides another route for submitting meals through the messaging service.[1], [2]
The company says the feature is intended to reduce the effort of keeping a daily food log. Setup begins with a meal photograph and answers to 6 questions. Information including the user’s age and purpose for using the service shapes later suggestions. The assistant uses that initial information together with meals subsequently entered into the log.[1]
Earlier entries inform the next meal suggestion
A detailed ingredient inventory is not required to enter a meal. Short descriptions such as eggs or bread can be used instead of a picture. The assistant can refer to previous entries, so a person can record breakfast by saying it was the same as yesterday. For a named packaged product, it can search the web for calorie information and include that information in the food log.[1]
Reviews draw on the accumulating food log
Based on recorded meals, the assistant proposes options for the next meal and prepares daily and weekly reviews. The company says the suggestions address nutrients that may be lacking and foods consumed frequently. Agent i combines earlier Yahoo! JAPAN and LINE assistants under one brand and connects to models supplied by Google or OpenAI. LY Corporation asks children under 13 to refrain from using it and does not guarantee the reliability, accuracy or completeness of AI output. These functions concern food logs and nutrition estimates; the announcement provides no clinical evaluation in people.[1]
