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re: How is AI Going to Tell What Things Smell or Taste Like?
Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:22 am to RanchoLaPuerto
Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:22 am to RanchoLaPuerto
Simple, it will say everything tastes like chicken
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:55 am to BottomlandBrew
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Smells and tastes are just chemical and electrical signals within your brain.
Have you ever taken a medication that has a side effect of bad tastes? I was on some migraine medicine once, and it made carbonated drinks taste flat.
AI can know process what a crappy hot dog taste like but can it understand why that same crappy hot dog taste like a 5star meal on a hot summer day by the pool?
Or why the biscuit recipe taste better when my grandmother made them then i will ever will be able to reproduce.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 9:05 am to RanchoLaPuerto
quote:Is this truly baffling to you? It can already see you and hear you via various input devices such as cameras and microphones.
How is AI Going to Tell What Things Smell or Taste Like?
Do you not think similar input devices will be able to smell, taste and touch? In fact, they likely already exist in some capacity.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 9:52 am to Onyx Aggie
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Do you not think similar input devices will be able to smell, taste and touch? In fact, they likely already exist in some capacity.
They exist in some capacity. The perfume and flavor industry have machines that use gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to capture the molecular signature of a smell or taste. It’s not a big leap to go from there to machine sensory far different from visual or auditory sensory it can already do to some degree.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 11:20 am to RanchoLaPuerto
AI is still a large language model that is missing a few inputs compared to humans. Human cognition is far greater than simply visual or linguistic information. We're essentially highly evolved risk management systems. You're absolutely right to question this, and you would be wise to always question. We taste, we smell, we touch. Our brains use this sensory input to formulate decisions based on real-time information, as well as recall, and we're "programmed" with ways to take cognitive shortcuts based on this knowledge. We "emotionally tag" information from the senses based on prior experience--we assign emotional value to different clusters of variables since we don't store information as individual data points. This way, we can react to prior experience without recalling all the specific information that formulated the decision. We remember how we "felt" about something, and it guides our decisions through gathering additional information and further risk avoidance.
AI can approximate all this with uncanny precision and present it to us in ways that can resonate, but it can't create unique experiences because it isn't capable of actual cognition. It can't remember the first date with your wife, or how she made you feel when she laughed at your self-deprecating humor. It is incapable of the excitement of first kisses. Of beautiful meals. Of a sublime bottle of wine. Or know the true feeling losing a parent. It can only "synthesize" a narrative based upon information it has ingested.
I think about this stuff a lot, and given my profession, I see the usefulness and also the understated dangers about missing out on what makes us who we are.
AI can approximate all this with uncanny precision and present it to us in ways that can resonate, but it can't create unique experiences because it isn't capable of actual cognition. It can't remember the first date with your wife, or how she made you feel when she laughed at your self-deprecating humor. It is incapable of the excitement of first kisses. Of beautiful meals. Of a sublime bottle of wine. Or know the true feeling losing a parent. It can only "synthesize" a narrative based upon information it has ingested.
I think about this stuff a lot, and given my profession, I see the usefulness and also the understated dangers about missing out on what makes us who we are.
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