• otacon239@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    ⚠️ Attention Hollywood! ⚠️

    Smell-O-Vision could be just around the corner!

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    8 days ago

    Generative AI assisted in the writing of this story.

    No shit, good gawd. The way it went in circles repeating itself. Yeesh.

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      7 days ago

      Dogs are significantly more subjective. And there’s a noticeable correlation with dogs trying to please their handler by indicating someone the handler is suspicious of.

      Nothing is foolproof and its good to have more tools in the kit.

      This kind of fundamental university based research is about to get a whole lot rarer in the US and that’s not great.

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    7 days ago

    …but that’s my preparation H and my wart remover! Yes I spilled a little gasoline on my self while getting gas this morning. C’mon officer let’s be reasonable?

    … I hereby sentence you to 45 years without parole!

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      8 days ago

      In all seriousness, we will eventually be able to do a lot of health diagnostics with technology like this. The applications mentioned in the article are frankly not very imaginative. Finding TNT: cool. Finding cancer early: amazing.

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        Imagine next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimen container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart into the container so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.

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          Or better yet they just point something at you that looks like a big microphone and then make that hand-flappy wafting-the-vapors gesture in front of it and say “go ahead anytime…”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    8 days ago

    Bomb sniffing devices have existed for quite some time. Is the news more that they can sniff out more types of explosive? Because that was a big limit I am aware of from hearing ahout these years ago; they only work with certain chemicals so it’s not able to detect 100℅ of all possible explosives.

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      7 days ago

      Dogs work. Oversold automated systems are unneeded unless they can provide the service for less than room and board of a g shepard.

      • The machines can sniff them out from further away, more accurately and through things while also being cheaper than caring for a living being. They can also be strapped to a robot so nobody, not even an animal, are put into danger.

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          7 days ago

          I bet that it is not true that either they can do it better than a dog, and or for cheaper. If it is being offered cheaper right now it will not remain so.

          All Tech hypes their product. People believe it. It does not mean it is accurate.