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MyHonestOpinonyesterday at 9:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Are not there medical applications ? Like the lady that can detect parkinson's by the smell. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-supersmeller-ca...

How good are digital smellers compared with super human smellers?


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limelyesterday at 11:31 PM

Unfortunately, medical applications require enormous time and effort to meet strict verification and regulatory requirements. While this is an important long-term direction, we are currently focusing on lower-hanging opportunities such as food manufacturing and processing, where there is strong potential for cost savings and loss prevention.

Digital smellers are scalable and more repeatable than human noses. At the current stage our electronic nose operate either through classification of previously trained odor classes or through anomaly detection. What is still missing is a possibility to run a more sophisticated conversation with the model when something smells "suspicious".