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It wasn’t half bad

Posted by Robin on 25 October 2019 5 Comments

Google has its own perfume—or at least one team of the company’s researchers does. Crafted under the guidance of expert French perfumers, the mixture has notes of vanilla, jasmine, melon, and strawberries. “It wasn’t half bad,” says Alex Wiltschko, who keeps a vial of the perfume in his kitchen.

— Read more in Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell at Wired.

Filed Under: perfume in the news
Tagged With: artificial intelligence, olfaction

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  1. Catanosmia says:
    25 October 2019 at 1:05 pm

    Damned by faint praise?

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    • Robin says:
      25 October 2019 at 5:33 pm

      Possibly.

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  2. lillyjo says:
    25 October 2019 at 4:49 pm

    One step closer to Maximum Overdrive.

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    • Robin says:
      25 October 2019 at 5:33 pm

      No kidding.

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  3. tiffanie says:
    26 October 2019 at 2:00 am

    LOL’d when I read that spearmint and caraway “smell’ the same to a machine. 😀 though it would be amazing if google can crack the code somehow.

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