Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is too complex and personal? Strangely, no
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Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI
"AI" is probably simple machine learning?
reads article
Yes, it is.
44 0 ReplyMachine 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?
16 0 ReplyAI 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.
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Im sooooo tired of everything being called AI. Words don't mean anything anymore. Its just a word to get clicks.
14 0 ReplyI mean they called bots in video game AI for decades now.
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I mean it says Graph Neural Networks, dont know how more AI can it get
11 0 ReplyAI 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.
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That is by any definition AI.
7 0 ReplyThe term has been hijacked, at this point being pedantic about it is moot.
5 0 ReplyJust 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.
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Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.01.504602v2
Open replication: https://github.com/BioMachineLearning/openpom
5 0 ReplyThey can't even smell...
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