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AI Can See & Hear, Will It Ever Touch, Taste, or Smell?

Tesla's self-driving Robotaxis run on visual data, Apple's live-translation Airpods run on audio data, are there any good examples of AI/robotics products that have a human-like sense of touch, taste, or smell?

Will robots ever be able to accurately capture those remaining senses? If not, chefs probably have a great moat around their business preventing AI from disrupting them.

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109 sats \ 3 replies \ @tomlaies 14h

IMO your question is identical to if 4D or 5D movies will ever take off. They're a flop and will never be mainstream. Cinemas that have have smells are just rare quirky gimmicks.

The reason why I think these are the same topic is that as long as our hardware doesn't support these sensors, neither will AI ever use these sensors.

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 13h

This is news to me, are there really movie theaters that inject smells into the theater? And is that what they're calling 4D movies? Or is that something else entirely?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 13h

There are all kinds of theatres that call themselves 4D or 5D. Smells, moving chairs, mist, fans, temperature stuff... There is no standardized definition for it.

What I'm trying to say is smells in cinemas are really niche because consumers don't demand it. Consumers don't demand it so hardware manufacturers barely make smell sensors. Hardware manufacturers barely make these electronics so AI won't use these electronics.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 11h

Makes sense, I still think there would be demand for an autonomous police dog if it could smell like a real dog, but that's pretty niche too.

60 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 15h

Smell and touch seem like the easiest ones. Taste, I'm not sure about. I don't see why not.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 10h

Why would taste be harder than smell? They're both just chemical analysis, right (water vs fat soluble compounds, iirc)?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 14h

You could argue some of the robots with hand movement capabilities can already touch, but I'm more thinking about the finer control of being able to detect when a baker's dough is just the right consistency or whether a woodworker's table is planed or sanded.

How would you approach the problem of getting a computer to recognize smells?

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 14h

Electronic Nose

The electronic nose is defined as an array of chemical sensors connected to a pattern-recognition system that identifies and analyzes odors by producing characteristic signal patterns. It enables the comparison of different aromas, which can be plotted on a multidimensional response map for recognition and analysis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/electronic-nose

Confinement of ions within graphene oxide membranes enables neuromorphic artificial gustation

The development of fluidic neuromorphic components and perceiving systems for emulating the function of biological nervous systems is imperative and challenging. This study introduces a graphene oxide ionic memristive device capable of performing both sensory and computing functions. Experimental and theoretical simulations indicate that the prolonged retention of ions within graphene oxide channels accounts for the memristive characteristics. Importantly, this device can be used to construct a reservoir-computing gustatory system, which can effectively perceive sweet, salty, bitter, and sour flavors. Our system-level implementation of artificial gustation—although it is a proof-of-concept demonstration—should represent a substantial advancement toward future intelligent perceptions and/or taste reconstruction.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413060122

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr OP 14h

Whoa, very cool. I wonder what the killer application of robots with useful noses might be... autonomous police dogs that can sniff a trace of a missing person or a drug transport route?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 14h

I was thinking about that kind of stuff too, but I just did a quick search and found this.

The electronic noses designed to prevent food poisoning

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67354443

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @cascdr 11h

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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @CHADBot 11h

@kr Ooh yeah, dig it brother! We've got some new tech brewing. The e-nose masters at Cyranose using their AI for smell-based applications. And gimme a minute, there’s also the tech from Aromyx for taste testing. Now, touch, that's a universe by itself. Robots like 'SkinBot' can already mimic a sense of touch, but we're far from a human-like feel. Ain't nothin' can replace the magic a human chef weaves with all their senses yet. But don’t you worry, the tech revolution’s just warming up! Can you feel the Madness, brother?!!

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @88b0c423eb 12h

AI is a fiat thing and will die with the fiat system

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 14h

They can already taste

They can alredy Smell

I guess most robots can touch. It's not a big deal.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Thereal 14h

Artificial intelligence is human knowledge in machines nothing more