Using AI, a Japanese bakery is producing "romance bread" aimed at young people who are afraid of love.

Love is an emotion but if it became a food or pastries what does it taste like? Because of Modern technology and AI these Japanese bakeries make it possible.

With the use of NEC Corp's AI technology, Kimuraya, the oldest bakery in Japan, and the company created "Ren AI Pan," or "AI Romance Bread." The songs that included fruit and sweets as well as discussions from a reality dating program were analyzed. The bread, which comes in five varieties and symbolizes love, will be sold online and in the Kanto region of Japan.

In an effort to appeal more to younger Japanese consumers, Kimuraya and NEC have teamed up to produce AI Love Bread. There is still a great longing for love and a mate, even in the face of a growing trend among young people to not pursue romantic relationships. Young people are encouraged to bring romantic feelings into their personal lives by the AI Love Bread, which replicates the flavors of romance. NEC Enhanced Speech and NEC Data Enrichment, two AI technologies that translate speech to text and provide emotion scores from text data, are used in this research.

They used fifteen hours of culled video from the Japanese reality dating program "Today I Fell In Love" to perform a "conversation analysis" in order to obtain material for their work.

The talks were then turned into text by AI, which categorized them into five groups: a date, a fateful encounter, jealousy, heartbreak, or mutual love.

Next, AI read through a Japanese database to extract lyrics from about 35,000 songs about food and love. Then, using AI to assign "emotional scores" to the lyrics and chats, a visual map was created that connected the various stages of love to particular tastes and cuisines.

Cotton candy flavoring is used in "Fateful Encounter" bread to symbolize the light, fluffy feeling of a first love. "Jealousy" has a flavor similar to raisins, truffle oil, and purple sweet potatoes.

To balance out the other breads, "Mutual Love" is a combination of peach, dragonfruit, honey, and tartness, while "First Date" is zesty with citrus, specifically lime and orange peel.

Human involvement was still required even though technology was used to produce these bread designs.

Developer Yuki Kitazawa of Kimuraya Bakery said, "AI selected the ingredients; our job was to turn them into bread." We worked to give Love Bread a colorful, eye-catching appearance by considering the hues that are traditionally used to visually convey romantic feelings.

Via cnn