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Can we teach computers how to smell?

Researchers from IBM and Rockefeller University are trying to sniff out the answer. Smell may be the least understood of the five senses, so the team trained software to identify scents in order to learn more about how our brains perceive them. Their results prove for the first time that a scent can be predicted based on its molecular structure. Ultimately, as their database of scents grows, the predictions will become even more on the nose.


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6 years ago

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    If something was fishy, could a computer know? Maybe!
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    I feel like this is really really interesting as we study the use of self learning machinery that is so prominent today....
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    What in the world?
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    Let’s teach a computer how to smell, why not. I don’t understand in the slightest how this would work, but it’s super...
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    Smell, something I never thought a computer would be capable of doing. This really interest me because it makes me think...
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    Interesting
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