If it doesn't burn wood, then it's not a pizza oven.

Waiting for a lasagne oven with AI /s

It's AI in the actual wide technological definition, not AI in the current marketing hype bubble way.

See: the AI effect .

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Boost Functionality for true Neapolitan Pizza

Oooh, that's gonna piss someone in the EU off if the EU has it as a protected geographical indicator.

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https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R46730/R46730.2.pdf

For geographical indications (GIs), which protect distinctive products
from a certain region and apply primarily to agricultural products, the UK and the EU agreed to
protect each other’s GIs that existed as of December 31, 2020, under each side’s own GI scheme.

The EU protects True Neapolitan Pizza: new regulation and certificatio

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The EU protects True Neapolitan Pizza: new regulation and certifications

Authentic Neapolitan pizza is now protected in the EU by the geographical certification "STG" (or "TSG", traditional specialty guaranteed). The European Union, with Regulation 2022/2313 accepted the request sent by Italy to protect the name and methods of preparation of one of the main symbols of Made in Italy in the world.

With this decision, therefore, no one will be able to use the name "Pizza Napoletana" (or "Neapolitan Pizza") unless accompanied by the wording STG.

New rules for the protection of the authentic Neapolitan pizza

To avoid imitations or improvised interpretations of Neapolitan Pizza, the EU has expressed its willingness to protect this typical specialty of the Italian culinary tradition, rewarding the certification only those who follow the original recipe. Among the characteristics of STG certification:

• cooked in a wood oven [emphasis mine]

I think that it may be legal, since it sounds like Italy got the "Neapolitan Pizza" protected post-Brexit.

Optical Character Recognition used to be cutting edge AI buzz in the 70s and 80s. Eventually, it got applied to all sorts of places, so OCR kinda lost some of the magic and sparkle. After that, people stopped thinking of it as AI, even though it relies on a neural network.

Apparently, wood ignites at around 260 °C, so I guess it could - technically - burn wood (and itself in the process, possibly).

I wonder if it will tell you to put glue on the pizza to make the cheese stick

That’s not AI. It just has sensors to tell when the pizza is done. Sounds like the author just wanted to earn some money, so they used AI as a clickbait buzzword to generate ad revenue.

If that’s AI, then my ten year old dryer has AI because of the sensor that tells it how much humidity is in the air so it knows when my clothes are dry.

And my washer is AI because it knows how much water to add based on how much the load weighs.

And the air bag in my car is AI because it knows when I’ve gotten in a crash.

A simple line of code that goes "if moisture < 0.25 then loaddone" of "water = weight * 0.43" isn't AI, true.
But when you start stacking enough of them with the goal and results being "We could get a chef to check how the pizza is doing every few seconds and, and control all of the different temperatures of this oven until it's perfectly done, but we have made a computer algorithm that manages to do that instead", then it's quite hard to argue it isn't software that is "performing a task typically associated with human intelligence, such as ... perception, and decision-making."

Especially if that algorithm was (I have no idea if it was in this case btw) not done by just stacking those if clauses and testing stuff manually until it works, but by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself. Because at that point, it definitely is artificial intelligence - it's not an artificial general intelligence, which many people think is the only type of "true AI", but it is an AI.

by using machine learning to analyze a mountain of baking data to create a neural network that does it itself.

except that neither the article nor the vendor website even come close to claiming it uses a neural network. the article even says

It’s a little less exciting than the name suggests.

all the Pizza Intelligence does is use sensors to make sure the pizza doesn't burn. it is literally as "dumb" as the humidity sensor in a dryer.

Alt text - gif from adventure time of a robot made out of a toaster oven driving around in a circle on grass. Text over the image reads "why, creator? Does it please you to watch me struggle?"