As a lot of my friends know, I am somewhat obsessed with AI. From the hyper-realistic image generation and research capabilities, to the general use case of it replacing a typical search engine, it fascinates me. So much so that I'm trying to build a vision of what I think the future impact of AI will hold in terms of nutrition, diet, and overall health.
When trying to explain and extrapolate out the future effects AI is going to bring to this world, a lot of people dismiss what I tell them. I was at a party last weekend and started asking people an extremely random and weird question: “Do you think you will have back pain in 60 years?”. I don't remember why the hell this was the first thing that was in my mind, but regardless, their answer was all but unsurprising: “of course I will!”. I knew this was always going to be their response, because the question is kind of rhetorical when taken at face value.
My larger point is that no, you won't have back pain in a few decades. If anything, that is going to be the absolute least of our problems anymore. My reasoning is that as AI continues to develop and improve itself month after month, and year after year, it's going to dominate in fields such as the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare as a whole. But what does this mean exactly, and how does it apply to your stabbing back pain? Well for instance let's take the pharmaceutical industry as an example. Their business model is essentially to make new drugs and sell them. But they are faced with a massive bottleneck: the current technological limitations imposed on research and development (R&D).
When AI models begin to take over the healthcare and paramedical industries they are going to accelerate drug discovery, optimize clinical trials, improve manufacturing processes, and personalize medicine to a degree we cannot even imagine. Here's an example where AI has already been used to drive a new optimized pipeline for the popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs: AI-Driven Efficient De Novo design of GLP-1RAs with Extended Half-Life and Enhanced Efficacy. So no, you won't have back pain anymore. But you will have tenth-generation GLP weight management drugs with zero side effects and no one will ever have to worry about their weight ever again! Pretty cool right?
Anyways, rambling aside, I mention all this to build the case for my current business venture I am developing right now.
Die Less.
A small baby step in the AI health revolution empowering you to make informed choices in regards to the food you eat and your overall diet. People use AI for in depth research, drafting essays, preparing data, etc. Why shouldn't we also use it to quantify on an individual personalized basis what it means to eat the perfect diet? This is the motivating factor.
Die Less is about designing an algorithm which will be able to quantify a person's diet quality based on factors such as nutritional quality, ingredients, brand reputation, and toxins. We're going to give users a numerical score of their diet quality representing how fast they are dying and what they can do to Die less.
The end goal–with additional research– is being able to extrapolate real world implications to a user's Die Less score. For example, a low score could be linked to factors such as increased weight gain, worse mood, and other bad health outcomes. Similarly a high die less score would be more favorable for outcomes such as a longer life, a low body weight, a better body composition, mental state, mood, etc.
Essentially my vision boils down to the question of: How can humans utilize AI to perfect their nutrition on a personalized individual level. That's really it. I truly believe deep down to my core that this is where the future is headed; It's only a matter of when. And since I have absolutely zero clue of when we will realize these advancements, it only makes sense to start now before it's too late. I don't want to be left in the dust, and neither should you.
-Nick