CS158-2 Activity #3

Artificial Intelligence creates Electronic Noses

Articles:

How a Computer Chip Can Smell without a Nose

https://newsroom.intel.com/news/how-computer-chip-smell-without-nose/

What is a chemical sensor?

https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/what-a-chemical-sensor

This digital 'nose' could make your coffee smell better and improve your cooking
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-digital-nose-could-make-your-coffee-smell-better-and-improve-your-
cooking/

Artificial Intelligence Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell

https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-has-a-strange-new-muse-our-sense-of-smell/

AI can pick out specific odors from a combination of smells

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237534-ai-can-pick-out-specific-odours-from-a-combination-of-
smells/

Computers That Smell: Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Can Sniff Out Hazardous Chemicals
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/computers-smell-intels-neuromorphic-chip-sniff-hazardous-
chemicals/#gs.p1y9ww

'Digital smell' technology could let us transmit odors in online chats

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/digital-smell-technology-could-let-us-transmit-odors-online-
chats-ncna940121

AI is acquiring a sense of smell that can detect illnesses in human breath

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ai-artificial-intelligence-smell-detect-illness-science-
technology-a8394706.html

Instructions:
From above articles, answer the questions below:

1. Please explain on how an AI can have a sense of smell.

2. What industries or businesses can benefit from this technology? Please cite three examples and provide
explanation for each industry or business.

3. What are the possible challenges of e-Noses? (e.g. Distance from subject and AI, you may use this but provide
another challenges)

4. How close are we now on having an AI that can smell as good as humans?

5. Do you think that AI will have better smell senses than humans after 25 years?