cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37742133
Is it though? Because dogs do it for a lot less in pay…
Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more.
Submitted 6 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://news.uci.edu/2025/09/19/sniffing-out-danger/
Comments
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
turmacar@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
caboose2006@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even the dogs are lostjobs to AI. When will it stop?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
Bomb sniffing devices have existed for quite some time.
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Dogs work. Oversold automated systems are unneeded unless they can provide the service for less than room and board of a g shepard.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 months ago
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.
scarabic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Generative AI assisted in the writing of this story.
No shit, good gawd. The way it went in circles repeating itself. Yeesh.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Can it rate my Farts?
scarabic@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimin container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart in it so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
sundray@lemmus.org 6 months ago
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Oohhh, does this mean we can stop putting dogs in traumatizing and potentially life threatning situations on the police force?!
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Tangent fun fact: after the reunification of west and east Germany, the patrol dogs for the east German wall were put up for adoption, and found loving homes :)
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
As long as this doesn’t have an 80% false positive rate like the dogs do.
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I would not blame the dogs so much is the handlers. The handlers can get a false positive on command.
But all of these computerized programs also give authorities the ability to initiate false positives you better believe it. From The Unseen higher-ups down to the guy running the program on the ground.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I don’t think it’s the dogs that have the false positive rate, it’s the handlers.
kn33@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a feature, not a bug
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Depends on the price
otacon239@lemmy.world 6 months ago
⚠️ Hollywood! ⚠️
Smell-O-Vision could be just around the corner!
scarabic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Where the movie can smell you? Because that’s what this tech does. It doesn’t create smells for us.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Third time’s the charm?
altphoto@lemmy.today 6 months 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!