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A step closer to digitizing the sense of smell: Model describes odors better than human panelists

A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearing, food into taste, and texture into touch. Smell is where these sensory relationships get more complex and perplexing.

Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor

September 6, 2022

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Experiments reveal LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve

Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it'll politely decline. Ask the same system to describe that scent to you, and it'll wax poetic about "an air thick with anticipation" and "a scent that is both fresh and earthy," despite having neither prior…

August 15, 2024

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AI model mimics brain’s olfactory system to process noisy sensory data efficiently

Human brains are great at sorting through a barrage of sensory information—like discerning the smell of tomato sauce upon stepping into a busy restaurant—but artificial intelligence systems are challenged by large bursts of unregulated input.

May 22, 2025

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AI Generated Robotic Content