Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more.

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But no machine could ever match the skill of Sam Valiant, Private Nose!

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ⚠️ Hollywood! ⚠️

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

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where the movie can smell you? Because that’s what this tech does. It doesn’t create smells for us.

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  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Third time’s the charm?

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• basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oohhh, does this mean we can stop putting dogs in traumatizing and potentially life threatning situations on the police force?!

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As long as this doesn’t have an 80% false positive rate like the dogs do.

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    • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a feature, not a bug

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s the dogs that have the false positive rate, it’s the handlers.

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  • AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on the price

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 :)

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is it though? Because dogs do it for a lot less in pay…

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  • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• caboose2006@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even the dogs are lostjobs to AI. When will it stop?

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bomb sniffing devices have existed for quite some time.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can it rate my Farts?

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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