How AI Learns to Smell with Alex Wiltschko - #771

AI has advanced primarily by learning from the digital world, text, images, audio, and increasingly video. It's how animals detect disease, identify food, navigate environments, and communicate through chemistry.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, right, including: But many of the problems people want AI to solve live outside these modalities, in the physical world.

1. 01His team is building what they call olfactory intelligence, AI systems that can model, predict, and design scents while creating the data sets and infrastructure needed to bring sm
2. 02In this conversation, we explore what it takes to give computers a sense of smell, why scent is such a difficult AI problem, and what it teaches us about the next generation of fou
3. 03And I think that it's really worth adding other kind of alien forms of intelligence to our AI models