Technology @lemmy.world dominiquec @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

aeon.co Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI | Aeon Essays

We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14276504

Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

science @lemmy.world dominiquec @lemmy.world 3mo ago

Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

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"AI" is probably simple machine learning?

reads article

Yes, it is.
- Machine learning is a form of AI, much more sophisticated than if else loops that are also AI, in fact. What did you think AI was, lol?
  
  AI is about making a system seem intelligent, by having it do human-like tasks. This is the type of machine learnig that is the opposite of that.
- I mean it says Graph Neural Networks, dont know how more AI can it get
  
  AI has been co-opted by all the GenAI people. The number of times I've heard things like "AI is the next big thing for X business" and they're only talking about GenAI is way too high.
- Im sooooo tired of everything being called AI. Words don't mean anything anymore. Its just a word to get clicks.
  
  I mean they called bots in video game AI for decades now.
- That is by any definition AI.
- Just a few years ago, AI was a simple program that had hardcoded answers and inputs in if else conditional blocks and ML was ML. After ChatGPT got popular, AI is no longer a simple if else program. The worst of all is that ML is no longer called ML.
- The term has been hijacked, at this point being pedantic about it is moot.
Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.01.504602v2

Open replication: https://github.com/BioMachineLearning/openpom
They can't even smell...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_nose
  
  An electronic nose is an electronic sensing device intended to detect odors or flavors. The expression "electronic sensing" refers to the capability of reproducing human senses using sensor arrays and pattern recognition systems.

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