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AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history

New Scientist

Some scents are at risk of vanishing forever. Artificial intelligence can whip up the formula to recreate a perfume based on its chemical composition. One day, it could use a lone sample to reproduce rare smells at risk of being lost, such as incense from a culturally specific ritual or the smell of a forest that is changing because of rising temperatures. Idelfonso Nogueira at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and his colleagues profiled two existing fragrances, categorising them by scent family – subjective words such as "spicy" or "musk" commonly used to describe perfume – and so-called "odour value", a measure of how intense a certain smell is. For instance, one of the fragrances scored the highest odour value for "coumarinic", a family of scents similar to vanilla.


How AI and brain science are helping perfumiers create fragrances

The Guardian

Making perfume is an art that can be traced back to ancient Greece but now modern-day perfumiers are beginning to look beyond their noses to develop the scents most likely to appeal to us. They are, instead, turning to AI. Perfumes can now be designed to trigger emotional responses using ingredients known as neuroscents – odours shown by biometric measures to arouse different positive feelings such as calm, euphoria or sleepiness. Hugo Ferreira, a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering in Lisbon, is mapping brain activity and response to perfumes to build a database of neuroscents. He says the sense of smell is fascinating. "With sight and hearing, you can imagine the face of a loved one or favourite tune. It's hard to imagine a smell even though [it] can provoke a torrent of emotions and memories."


Mastering Sentence Transformers For Sentence Similarity – Predictive Hacks

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Sentence transformers is a Python framework for state-of-the-art vector representations of sentences. Having the sentences in space we can compute the distance between them and by doing that, we can find the most similar sentences based on their semantic meaning. As an example, let's say that we have these two sentences: The closest sentence is the "Coffee makes mornings better." Even if they don't use the same words, their vector representations will be close to each other. To get the similarity of two sentence vectors, we are using the cosine similarity(1 – cosine distance).


Understanding Agent Environment in AI - KDnuggets

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Before starting the article, it is important to understand what an agent in AI is. The agent is basically an entity that helps the AI, machine learning, or deep reinforcement learning to make a decision or trigger the AI to make a decision. In terms of software, it is defined as the entity which can take decisions and can make different decisions on the basis of changes in the environment, or after getting input from the external environment. In simpler words, the quick agent perceives external change and acts against it the better the results obtained from the model. Hence the role of the agent is always very important in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.


AI-Powered Kaorium "Smell-O-Word" System Partners with Nose Shop - ThunderboltLaptop

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Scentmatic, a Tokyo-based company delivering experiences that fully replicate scents and smells, in cooperation with Biotope Co. Ltd., plans to introduce its trademark Kaorium system to a limited number of Nose Shop's branches, a growing curator of perfumes and beauty products, nationwide in Japan. Using AI to describe perfumes in the most artificially intelligent way possible. Scentmatic is a company that aims to use the power of artificial intelligence for scent-related products and services. No, they don't exactly sell colognes and perfumes using finely-calculated smart algorithms. Instead, the AI is used to "translate" these scents into words (relevant text), providing verbal profiles for each related product with the highest descriptive accuracy possible for the language chosen.


Top 11 Uncommon Uses of Artificial Intelligence for the Modern Living

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Artificial Intelligence has been credited as a major disruptive force leading us towards digital transformation. From helping in developing high-end robotics to weather predictions, stock market crash, drug discovery, to understanding customer data, better filling system, and so forth, AI is quite instrumental in the technological advancements we see today. Though it is a common thought that AI will rob us of our employment opportunities and jobs, in contrast, it has been observed that AI has helped us by augmenting our capabilities and assisting us in numerous activities, including the trivial ones. While we are all quite aware of how AI is shaping industries generally functions, there are some uncommon applications of AI too. Let us discuss some of them.


Eau de AI: Perfume engineered by data -- AI Daily - Artificial Intelligence News

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Alternative'ingredient' substitutes that could be used in a formula (less common ingredients yielding the same scents) Yet when Symrise implemented Philyra, they didn't use it as a replacement for the experience of master human perfumiers, rather to complement them. Philyra suggested new fragrance combinations with a speed and efficiency a human could never do…with the human then perfecting the combination to emphasise certain scents and improve the durability of the fragrance itself. But how can this technology be used outside the fragrance market? Shampoos…detergents…cosmetics, AI won't remove the human element in the innovative process of any of these industries but will accelerate innovation, seeking to exploit and use those'blind-spots' in the market to create new products.


On AI: Perfume with a hint of AI Reuters Video

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Swiss fragrance manufacturer Givaudan has infused their perfume creation process with a small dose of artificial intelligence. "Carto," a computer coupled with a robot, allows perfume makers to imagine, combine and test their ideas more quickly and efficiently, marking a big step in the industry.


How IBM Learns From Machine Learning

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Watson started its life as a TV star and now is being used by clients such as Symrise to create new perfumes.IBM It is less than fifteen years ago when IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo and did the same for its x86 server business back in 2014. It was a major shift for the company that some decades ago was virtually the same as the'PC' itself. But what was the key factor that attracted the company's attention and made it open a brand new path, different from its past business-safe lanes? Undoubtedly, both businesses that were sold had become less profitable, still, it does not sufficiently explain the reason why a new business had to replace the old one to secure the viability of the corporation.


Lab-grown mini brains could become new disease models

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The first perfumes designed by AI are slated for launch in mid-2019 in Brazil. Developed at IBM, in partnership with perfume company Symrise, the AI programme used drew upon a database of 1.7m different fragrance formulas, and used information on raw materials and the success of previously developed perfumes. It was also taught to identify which fragrances people found similar and dissimilar – getting training akin to an apprentice perfumer. Called Philyra, after the Greek goddess of fragrance, the AI programme developed two new fragrances for Brazilian beauty company O Boticário. 'What she did was super innovative.