Intel chips with special brainlike characteristics have learned to smell, the microprocessor maker said Monday. The Loihi chips learned to detect specific odors in one attempt, even in the presence of other smells. The technology could be used to detect odors humans create when they have certain diseases, or smells associated with explosives, drugs or environmental gases, Intel said.
The findings were released in a paper Monday that Intel published in collaboration with scientists at Cornell University. The chips use artificial intelligence to learn to sense the odor and then identify it again when re-exposed.
