Two international teams of computer scientists have teamed up with researchers at The Rockefeller University in New York 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 476 odours , and the results went into a database of over 1 m markers . This data was then split into three sections and used to train computer models to predict smells based on the chemical structures of the odorants .
Twenty two teams of computer scientists have teamed up with researchers at The Rockefeller University in New York 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 476 odours, and the results went into a database of over 1m markers. This data was then split into three sections and used to train computer models to identify smell based on the chemical structures of the odorants.