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Glass Block Outbuilding by Baracco+Wright Architects in Melbourne.View quoted post on X
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There's a secondary application here that I think could be even bigger than quality, which is seafood fraud and provenance
Before starting my fintech company, I spent some time researching the enormous problem of seafood fraud. In a 2013 investigation, Oceana found that 87% of fish sampled and sold as snapper were actually mislabeled.
Shinkei is already identifying individual fish at the point of catch. You can imagine a world where every fish that passes through a Shinkei machine gets a verifiable digital passport with species, origin, vessel, catch date, etc.
The problem Shinkei potentially solves, which I never had a good answer for, is how you get fishermen to adopt a system designed to prevent fraud downstream when they don't necessarily benefit from doing so
Wish I'd thought of this
Before starting my fintech company, I spent some time researching the enormous problem of seafood fraud. In a 2013 investigation, Oceana found that 87% of fish sampled and sold as snapper were actually mislabeled.
Shinkei is already identifying individual fish at the point of catch. You can imagine a world where every fish that passes through a Shinkei machine gets a verifiable digital passport with species, origin, vessel, catch date, etc.
The problem Shinkei potentially solves, which I never had a good answer for, is how you get fishermen to adopt a system designed to prevent fraud downstream when they don't necessarily benefit from doing so
Wish I'd thought of this
we have a winner for the most absurd AI startup ever
this Peter Thiel backed company uses AI robots to stab fish in the brain so they taste better and last up to 3x longer
it's called Shinkei and it modernizes a centuries-old Japanese technique
dozens of Michelin-star restaurants are already lining up to buy the fish
here's how it works:
> the problem is when a fish gets caught, it usually just suffocates on the boat
> that stress floods the meat with hormones and lactic acid, which hurts the flavor and texture
> the old Japanese fix for this was spiking the fish through the brain right after the catch, which stops all that
> but doing it by hand is impractical for most American fishing crews
> so Shinkei built a fridge-sized robot that sits right on the boat's deck
> the crew feeds in a fish and AI identifies the exact species, so it knows exactly where the brain and gills are
> the robot then drives the spike through the brain and cuts near the gills in about 7 seconds
> the fish goes into an ice slurry so the blood drains out
> so the fish doesn't sit there stressing out, and that tasty flavor and texture is preserved
example number 5,392,417 of how AI can be applied to literally anythingView quoted post on X
if i press the right keys on my keyboard, i too will get to grow old with my wife in a beautiful new england modernist home
Little Harbor House
Gray Organschi Architecture
Guilford, Connecticut
Photos by Mark MahaneyView quoted post on X
