This Computer Chip Can Actually Smell, Thanks To Artificial Intelligence

A chip can do a lot of things but still, the'brain' of the computing system falls short to when compared to an actual human brain. But now, through the science of neuromorphic computing, researchers from Intel and Cornell University have developed a chip that can smell! The chip has a nose? Researchers were able to create a mathematical algorithm that was, "based on the architecture of the mammalian olfactory bulb", as they explain in their research paper. Thomas Cleland, a professor of psychology at Cornell University was studying the biological olfactory system in mammals by measuring the electrical activity seen in their brains on smelling different odours.