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Scent Teleportation

Osmo AI claims to have ‘digitized smell.’ In other words, their platform can not only reproduce any smell, it can also create new ones. In fact, it has released three entirely new smells you can actually buy.

The idea of creating new smells isn’t just for the sake of having a new bedroom fragrance. For instance, we could use this power to create new smells that aren’t hideous to humans but scare or deter plagues from attacking our crops. And before you accuse me of fantasizing, this is precisely what the Melinda & Gates Foundation is trying to do with Osmo as we speak.

For an overview of how the process works, check this short YouTube video.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

If Osmo AI can truly deploy this at scale, this is massive. This not only provides AI models with the capacity to ‘perceive’ smell, breaking down scents to the molecular level and predicting how that scent smells, but it can also provide humans with new ones.

To do so, they built an ‘odor map’ where different smells are clustered according to similarity. This approach is similar to HumeAI's attempt to categorize human emotions, and it is a beautiful example of modern AI. But how is that?

Most current AI models have a common principle: similarity. It’s how machines ‘understand’ our world; while they can’t taste an apple, they learn that apples are more similar to oranges than to a steak. AIs are great at finding the common patterns in data that similar concepts share, like all foods under the fruits’ tag. But the impressive thing about AI is that it can find latent patterns that humans might not have picked on (more on that in today’s trend of the week below), allowing civilization to deepen its understanding of the world.

With HumeAI, we now have a better intuition of how humans express emotion

With ArchetypeAI, last week’s trend of the week, we may find new patterns in physics and nature

And with Osmo, we can now find how molecules interact with each other to generate new smells.

I predict that by 2025, most of the breakthroughs in AI will come more from AI discovering stuff than helping us draft emails faster.

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