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Former Google Researcher's Startup Hopes to Teach AI How to Smell
"AI is already able to mimic sight and hearing," writes CNBC. And now a startup named Osmo "wants to use the technology to digitize another: smell." Co-founded by a former Google research scientist, the company built an AI that's "superhuman in its ability to predict what things smelled like," the...
CoinTelegraph describes how the company invented a training dataset from scratch — a kind of "smell map" with labelled examples of molecular bond associations to teach the AI to identify specific patterns. The team also hopes to develop a method to recreate smells using molecular synthesis. This also means scent could join sight and sound as part of the marketing and branding world.
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