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UK Chip-Maker Arm is Working on an AI-Powered Smart Chip That Can Tell if You Smell (newscientist.com)
UK chip-maker Arm, better known for developing the hardware that powers most smartphones, is working on a new generation of smart chips that embed artificial intelligence inside devices. One of these chips is being taught to smell. From a report: The idea is that the chips will be small and cheap enough to be built into clothing, allowing an AI to keep tabs on your BO throughout the day. Arm also wants to add the chips to food packaging to monitor freshness. The e-noses are part of a project called PlasticArmPit, in which Arm is developing smart chips made from thin sheets of plastic. Each chip will have eight different sensors and a built-in machine learning circuit. It will look like a piece of cling-film with bits stuck to it, says James Myers at Arm. "PlasticArmPit will be the first application of machine learning in plastic electronics."
Smells are made up of different combinations and concentrations of gases. The sensors on the chip will detect different chemicals in the air and the AI will take that complex data and identify it as a particular whiff. The chip will then score the smell. If it is in the armpit of your shirt, it will tell you the strength of your body odour from 1 to 5, says Myers. "It's the job of the machine learning to collect and interpret all the data and then alert the user if action is needed."
Smells are made up of different combinations and concentrations of gases. The sensors on the chip will detect different chemicals in the air and the AI will take that complex data and identify it as a particular whiff. The chip will then score the smell. If it is in the armpit of your shirt, it will tell you the strength of your body odour from 1 to 5, says Myers. "It's the job of the machine learning to collect and interpret all the data and then alert the user if action is needed."
On the BO railroad it goes off all the time!
Apple are already working on a new deodorant called iStink.
How is this "AI"? What "complex data"? The sensors are simple. The program would look like if (concentration_of_gas1 > threshold_a && concentration_of_gas2 > threshold_b) {you_stink=true;}
It's not a chip maker and never has been nor is it UK company, It's now owned buy the Chinese IIRC
So it always returns true? That should work for most of the /. folks around...
Will the French version evaluate the odors of perfume / cologne and determine whether they're sufficiently strong to overpower the BO? I've never thought that strategy was particularly effective, but judging by my experience on the Paris Metro the French believe in it.
One for each of my IT students.
... is the Monty Python foot icon?
Now we are automating neurosis? What a fucking world!
This reminds me of an old Monty Python joke:
Man 1: My dog has no nose!
Man 2: How does he smell?
Man 1: Terrible!
I wasn't aware that Japan was part of China now.
Should be a big hit with IBM management.
The Japanese would probably resist the notion of being part of China, wouldn't they? These smelly-pads should probably not only detect odor in some meaningless scale but detect infection, pheromones and such. You probably want those smells that you use to lure unsuspecting partners to have sex with you from a problematic bacterial colony that works for the opposite goal.
Whoever thought this up - Just fuck the hell off.
Congratulations. In your racist rant you failed to even name the right country. To fact check you... the company headquarters are still in the UK, the CEO is British (but living in California) and the company owning it is actually Japanese. I doubt Japan would be pleased being confused with China.
Can I put one in my a$$ to monitor my gas and automatically post to face book when I make a record setting stinky
What kind of fucking moron are you?
China and Japan are practically on the same relationship level as they were in WWII.
ARM Holdings is a UK based business owned by a Japanese Conglomerate, not a Chinese business.
Cancer can and has been detected through odors by dogs.
Seems like that would be a much better use of this technology than would be just telling you if you stink.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
... of a nose.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
On top of that, ARM itself was never a purely British company, but a joint venture between Archimedes, Apple and VLSI, mainly to design the CPU for the Newton.
It also tells you if you put too much perfume/cologne on to mask your BO. Sometimes a little BO is easier to handle than overpowering all-consuming floral scents.
... but I think UnderArm might at least tie in terms of name recognition... ;-)
Check your premises.
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Not as big of a moron as the guy who called an armpit sniffer "Al" powered. Quit redefining AI, YOU FLAMING DOUCHE NOZZLES.
Queue SJWs crying "smellism" now.
Yea, I know, I know. If I take a lot of Bean-o or equivalent (alpha-glactosidase from aspergillus niger) over a period of a couple weeks, it can adversely affect my aroma. I think that stuff messes with my gut flora. It becomes pretty obvious & embarrassing at the gym when everyone else in the core fitness class sets up in the opposite corner of the room.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Yeah, I got it wrong - they're Japanese now.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
And to fact check you... Softbank sold 51% of ARM to China - it's a Chinese company with a Japanese minority owner.
Why the focus on the armpit? We can all turn our head and sniff. Most of us can't check our other scent glands as easily.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Yes, let's complicate clothing by adding a breakable, pointless piece of technology that can't POSSIBLY be misused for marketing-driven purposes.
Who actually wants this - people with body-odor issues? Do they not already know they have body-odor issues? And the article says "If it is in the armpit of your shirt, it will tell you the strength of your body odour from 1 to 5"... and? Are offices going to be modified to include closets, so we all can keep changes of clothing at work?
A few commenters have mentioned speculative health applications - but the article makes it obvious the main thrust is driven by some weird weird plan to "see if we can create a new market by making people more self-conscious".
#DeleteChrome
will be super easy. Hardwire the sucker to always say "Stink".
Need one of these to find some hot wakige. Now if they could only help you locate hairy girls it'd be perfect.
This is not a coincidence! I'm pretty sure if we pit all the chipmakers against each other, Arm can make the Smell chip better! The market reeks of rumors and there's the scent of money to be made soon.
ARM China, not ARM.
[drum roll] TERRIBLE !
Notice that TFS headline includes:
"Smart Chip That Can Tell if You Smell"
That clearly says to me that it can tell if your nose is working correctly. But I think it was meant to say that this chip can tell if you have an odor; a very different thing. Yes, I know, English is difficult to parse for some editors.
...omphaloskepsis often...
From wikipedia: "Unlike most traditional microprocessor suppliers, such as Intel, Freescale (the former semiconductor division of Motorola, now NXP Semiconductors) and Renesas (a former joint venture between Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric), Arm only creates and licenses its technology as intellectual property (IP),[70] rather than manufacturing and selling its own physical CPUs, GPUs, SoCs or microcontrollers."
"Made up/misattributed quote that makes me look smart. I am on
bool userStinks() { return (deviceID == "iPhone"); }
I can smell.
And to fact check you with your own facts, ARM Holdings sold a majority stake in its subsidiary known as Arm Technology (China) Co., Ltd
Softbank still owns ARM Holdings
I didn't realize it was April 1st already!
haha bullshit how one could confuse Japan with China?
I have a wife for that.
Will the chip be named "Under-Arm"?
I'm just guessing here, but why does anyone with a functioning nose, or a few friends, need AI to tell 'em they stink? Oh sure, you'll say, maybe it's proof-of-concept. That may be, but I'll re-ask... Why?
This makes no sense to me. I'm one of the two fellas on this rock that has never done a "smellfie", as that *#^$%(! commercial puts it. I know, because I've been sweating profusely/not showered in a while/stepped in dog dookie/etc.
This world is working hard to make this old man even more profoundly grateful for my mortality, and that I was young when I was.
AI to tellya if you stink. Juuust what we needed!
I got a wife. She can tell me if I smell and bring me a beer. Let's see how long it takes them SiliconValley wizards to make an AI do that both....