OSAKA – Japanese sushi restaurant chain Kura Sushi has brought a smartphone app on synthetic intelligence that can assess the quality of tuna, a popular sushi dressing.
The app, Tuna Scope, promises to be a useful tool for advertising buyers, who are suffering a scale in suppliers due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Tuna Scope evolved through Japanese advertising leader Dentsu and its partners.
Kura Sushi says the smartphone app can determine the quality of tuna temporarily and accurately, and will help you get a normal source of high-quality tuna, even if buyers can’t inspect fish abroad in person.
The freshness and taste of tuna vary considerably. Human experts judge the quality of tuna through the cross-sectional segment of the tail. Tuna Scope accesses a knowledge base of quality tests conducted through human connoisseurs and a wealth of knowledge of symbols to make judgments.
After digitizing the symbol of a cross section, Tuna Scope evaluates tuna on a three-level scale: more sensitive quality A, quality B and normal quality Mr. Screening takes a few seconds and gives 90% accuracy, explains Kura Sushi.
Purchasing managers historically stop at production sites and processing plants at home and to evaluate the taste and quality of tuna and signal procurement contracts.
“Even if we can’t check [the quality of the tuna] on the site, we can get the best quality tuna without any problem,” says Makoto Tanaka, executive vice president of Kura Sushi.
Kura Sushi sells more than 70 million tuna sushi dishes a year and buys 70% of its sushi toppings abroad. It plans to use a similar AI application to assess the quality of other fish species in the future.
Tuna Scope’s A-rated tuna is sold as kiwami jukusei AI premium maguro (tuna) in Kura Sushi restaurants and for two hundred yen ($1.86), consistent with the dish, tax-free, for a limited time, starting July 10.
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