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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

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Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#71

Reminds me of the vibration theory of olfaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction

Reminds me of the vibration theory of simulated chemicals. 3 Fisted Tales of Bob. They used sound to keep gunpowder from exploding or something.

Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#72

OK, I want to meet these guys. This writeup has several breathtaking (if you will) passages. Like: > "We found different scents by steering the beam over ~14 mm (20 degrees at 4 cm radius). The distance between freshness and burning was ~3.5 mm." > "The olfactory system potentially allows writing up to 400, if not 800 due to two nostrils, dimensions into the brain. That is comparable to the dimensionality of latent s…

That is an amazing thought!

Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#73

My prediction is that in the not-to-distant future, we’re all going to live indefinitely in simulations that optimized for human experience. To do this, AIs will “highjack” our nervous systems and feed generated worlds to use to experience. This kind of thing makes it seem like it’s pretty realistic.

How do you know it hasn't already happened?

Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#74

My prediction is that in the not-to-distant future, we’re all going to live indefinitely in simulations that optimized for human experience. To do this, AIs will “highjack” our nervous systems and feed generated worlds to use to experience. This kind of thing makes it seem like it’s pretty realistic.

I think a lot of people are already living in this future, trapped in a fantasy bubble world maintained by social media algorithms.

Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#75

The adult videos industry must be already closely looking at this, and I wouldn't be surprised if they don't finance related research soon in the future, it will be VHS vs betamax all over again.

... ...... ...OH you probably mean for the purposes of stimulating things OTHER THAN SMELLS

Yes, to simulate pheromones and related stimulus, that too, but I'm sorry if you already don't know this but a faint smell of urine would be a big deal to a non-trivial amount of men for immersion, without going into too much detail "squirting" fans and all the ecosystem around such kind of fetishes.

Re: We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

#78
> The olfactory system potentially allows writing up to 400, if not 800 due to two nostrils, dimensions into the brain. That is comparable to the dimensionality of latent spaces of LLMs, which implies you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space. A bit of ultrasound, a breath in - and you understood a paragraph.

Translation: We’re very concerned that the only projects getting funding right now have to use AI.

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