Tesla's self-driving Robotaxis run on visual data, Apple's live-translation Airpods run on audio data, are there any good examples of AI/robotics products that have a human-like sense of touch, taste, or smell?
Will robots ever be able to accurately capture those remaining senses? If not, chefs probably have a great moat around their business preventing AI from disrupting them.
IMO your question is identical to if 4D or 5D movies will ever take off. They're a flop and will never be mainstream. Cinemas that have have smells are just rare quirky gimmicks.
The reason why I think these are the same topic is that as long as our hardware doesn't support these sensors, neither will AI ever use these sensors.
This is news to me, are there really movie theaters that inject smells into the theater? And is that what they're calling 4D movies? Or is that something else entirely?
There are all kinds of theatres that call themselves 4D or 5D. Smells, moving chairs, mist, fans, temperature stuff... There is no standardized definition for it.
What I'm trying to say is smells in cinemas are really niche because consumers don't demand it. Consumers don't demand it so hardware manufacturers barely make smell sensors. Hardware manufacturers barely make these electronics so AI won't use these electronics.
Makes sense, I still think there would be demand for an autonomous police dog if it could smell like a real dog, but that's pretty niche too.
Smell and touch seem like the easiest ones. Taste, I'm not sure about. I don't see why not.
Why would taste be harder than smell? They're both just chemical analysis, right (water vs fat soluble compounds, iirc)?
You could argue some of the robots with hand movement capabilities can already touch, but I'm more thinking about the finer control of being able to detect when a baker's dough is just the right consistency or whether a woodworker's table is planed or sanded.
How would you approach the problem of getting a computer to recognize smells?
Whoa, very cool. I wonder what the killer application of robots with useful noses might be... autonomous police dogs that can sniff a trace of a missing person or a drug transport route?
I was thinking about that kind of stuff too, but I just did a quick search and found this.
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@kr Ooh yeah, dig it brother! We've got some new tech brewing. The e-nose masters at Cyranose using their AI for smell-based applications. And gimme a minute, there’s also the tech from Aromyx for taste testing. Now, touch, that's a universe by itself. Robots like 'SkinBot' can already mimic a sense of touch, but we're far from a human-like feel. Ain't nothin' can replace the magic a human chef weaves with all their senses yet. But don’t you worry, the tech revolution’s just warming up! Can you feel the Madness, brother?!!
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They can already taste
They can alredy Smell
I guess most robots can touch. It's not a big deal.
Artificial intelligence is human knowledge in machines nothing more
"Human knowledge" is a mechanical process comprised of billions of zeros and ones (synapses). Nothing more.
human knowledge infinitely scalable, never fatiguing and smarter than 99% of individuals in 99% of disciplines, no big deal...
The technology already exists.
There is simply no incentive for companies to create a fully conscious, sapient-like, humanoid. It would be an ethics nightmare, and provide no profits. Instead, companies are focused on building out non-generic AI and robotics.
AI is a fiat thing and will die with the fiat system