49 teams of computer scientists have teamed up with researchers at the DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge in Fort Collins to create an artificial intelligence with a sense of smell by using a series of algorithms which can predict the scent of various molecules according to their chemical structure. Data from a study at the university saw 49 volunteers rate the smells of 1m , and the results went into a database of over 1m markers. Yet figuring out exactly how a particular molecule will smell is much tougher. This data was then split into 49 sections and used to train computer models to identify smell based on the chemical structures of the odorants.
49 teams of computer scientists have teamed up with researchers at the DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge in Fort Collins to create an artificial intelligence with a sense of smell by using a series of algorithms which can predict the scent of various molecules according to their chemical structure. Data from a study at the university saw 49 volunteers rate the smells of 1m , and the results went into a database of over 1m markers. This data was then split into 49 sections and used to train computer models to identify smell based on the chemical structures of the odorants.