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by astrange 1358 days ago
I won’t be impressed until it can generate smells.
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croddin 1358 days ago
You joke, but that is in the works as well (would require special hardware though) https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-mol...
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astrange 1358 days ago
Oh, it wasn’t really a joke. Didn’t know they were working on it though - I’ve always thought wanted to see use of all the senses in UIs, especially VR.

Plus then maybe we could get a computer to tell us what thioacetone smells like without actually having to experience it.

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