You could start smelling the roses from afar using AI

Do you ever send a picture of yourself trying on clothes to a friend to see what they think of how you look? Now imagine doing the same thing at the perfume and cologne counter. AI could make this happen in the not-too-distant future after a breakthrough in “Scent Teleportation.” Osmo, which bills itself as a “digital olfactory” company, has been able to use AI to analyze a smell in one location and reproduce it elsewhere without human intervention.

Scent teleportation uses sensors to collect and analyze an odor with a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC/MS). The data is then transmitted to a specialized molecular printer, which can synthesize and combine the chemicals needed to exactly reproduce the smell. Osmo has performed perfume teleportation before, but only with humans helping the process every step of the way.

This is no longer necessary. Osmo successfully used artificial intelligence to map the processed fragrance onto the Master Odor Map (POM), a database that predicts how certain combinations of molecules correspond to specific odors. The AI models can then communicate the molecular odor profile to a robotic system to create and blend a flavor replica. Osmo CEO Alex Wiltschko’s video demonstration below shows how it works.

Smells like AI

“Well, I really did. I digitized the perfume. A fresh summer plum was the first fruit and fragrance to be fully digitized and reprinted without human intervention. It smells great. Holy moly, I’m still processing the enormity of what I’ve done. And yet, it feels like as we cross that finish line, we’re instantly at a new starting line,” Wiltschko. impart on X. “I don’t know if this is embarrassing, but I carry plum perfume with me everywhere and smell it constantly. It makes me smile.”

AI makes it possible for Osmo to better process huge amounts of data about a scent, making it more accurate and simplifying the process significantly, even when there are very subtle scent components. Osmo claims to have the largest AI-compatible scent database, which in turn helps train AI to understand and reproduce scents. Perfume teleportation isn’t Osmo’s only AI project. The company has also used artificial intelligence to create entirely new scents, offering them to the perfume industry.

Inspire the future

Although it may seem like a bizarre application of artificial intelligence, the teleportation of smells could be a huge advantage for several industries. Imagine putting on a VR headset and not only seeing the virtual environment, but also smelling it. It may not be ideal for some games, but watching a VR cooking show would be much more immersive with an olfactory assist. Osmo also highlights the potential health implications of recreating scent in therapy for conditions such as anosmia (loss of smell) or as a way to diagnose conditions where changes in the sense of smell are a symptom.

As for sharing fragrances to get a distant friend’s opinion, companies may frown upon the idea of you replicating their proprietary fragrances. But you could certainly enhance a romantic message with a picture of a flower that the recipient can smell. Then again, the most popular suggestion on how to use AI-assisted scent teleportation might stop your idea.

Guys, if you keep asking me to use our cutting edge perfume teleportation technology to send bars, I will and then who’s laughingOctober 30, 2024