Giving Compass' Take:

• The Atlantic details an artificial intelligence-powered app called Gastrograph uses data entered by a multitude of users to place food and drink in specific flavor and taste categories, with the hopes of helping consumers lead healthier lives.

• How will new AI technology improve our food system in general? How can we make sure everyone has equal access?

• Here's another example on how AI is impacting agriculture.

Flavor, the conjunction of taste and smell, is not a sensation that yields easily to analysis. Unlike sights and sounds, which can be captured by cameras and microphones, there is no widespread way to measure flavor. What people experience when they eat has heretofore been largely ineffable and uncomputable.

“If I go to a farmers’ market, I can take a picture of a really lovely mushroom, but I cannot take an exact ‘flavor image’ and show it to someone and have them understand,” says Tarini Naravane, a doctoral student at the University of California at Davis who studies flavors. This goes right to an age-old philosophical question. “How do I know what I call red is what you call red? This happens far more in flavor than it does in the visual world,” Naravane says. Flavor “is far more complicated.”

But an artificial-intelligence app called Gastrograph aims to introduce a way to reliably measure flavor. If it succeeds, it will give the company that makes it a digital handle on food. And as with everything else, once flavor is digitized, it will be that much easier to understand—and control.

Read the full article on this food intelligence app by Amos Zeeberg at The Atlantic.