Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities

Probably because Cal AI is effectively a scam? There’s no way to get a useful approximation of calories from pointing vision models at finished meals…

I used the app. You have to do a ton of work to get it accurate.

The requisite information just isn’t in the arrangement of photons that touch the camera lens!

Especially since good weight programs rely on fairly minor caloric deltas where e.g. physically invisible amounts of butter can switch you from a deficit to a surplus.

Indeed. It's less hassle to just visually arrange and eat smaller portions than go through all that cataloguing work.