Can computers….smell? Apparently, yes, and almost as well as humans can!
A company spun out from Google Research used machine learning to train a computer on 5,000 molecules whose smell has been well-documented. It learned connections between molecular structure and odor, then created a map to show the connection between the two. Here’s what happened when they put it to the test…

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