Scientist Explains Why Dogs Can Smell Better Than Robots | WIRED
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2019
- Dogs can smell explosives like landmines, and detect medical conditions including seizures, diabetes, and many forms of cancer -- with up to 98% accuracy. Inventor Andreas Mershin wants to replicate that -- and put a nose in every cell phone. WIRED's Emily Dreyfuss spoke with Mershin to find out why that's easier said than done, and to learn what building a robotic nose has taught us about smell.
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he's very passionate about his field of study
He gets pretty annoying
Only a 10 minute conversation,
can't really judge him as an individual
yet his demeanor did have a touch of madness.
Be that good or bad is up to him
he has a mole
he has the fingerint of what can go mad for hin
and change his life forever he wants to do things right, if he is a little louder another ear might hear him
Or loves cocaine.....
if Quintin Tarantino was a scientist - this is what he would be like - Legend
Have you ever tried to wash a robot? That is why dogs smell better than robots.
haha the real problems :P
Frank coming it hot w the dad joke 🔥
diabetes
Lol
@@playmate7638 All day long.
Imagine Tarantino was interested in odors instead of movie making. Same intensity
speaking of tarantino, cant wait for his latest movie.
he would just copy someone else's research
Great compliment, Tarantino clearly loves doing his thing too
Who would win
$100M worth of equipment
or
1 goodboye
Goodbye
@@AN-ou6qu No... Good boy=Goodboye, do you not possess the ability of interpretation?
de132 : awesome 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂so true. 👍👍🇨🇦
I love this man's personality! 🤣 I wish I had him as a professor.
@ThisIsMyRealName We're probably won't be surpassing dogs' ability to smell any time soon, but we can try to get close through improvements in machine learning and research into how a dog's brain processes smells.
@ThisIsMyRealName We have cameras and satellites that see better than any human eye. Why not do the same for smell, especially if it's useful?
@ThisIsMyRealName What? We have machines that can detect which molecules are in the air, that's pretty much the definition of smell. Also a dog doesn't live forever so it limits how much experience in smelling things they can have, a machine wouldn't have those limitations, if the machine is around for a 1000 years it has 1000 years of smell "data".
@@sshawarma exactly! dogs' noses aren't magical any more than ears or eyes. Microphones and cameras are on your phone already, why not noses?
I just love this guy... he knows how to tell a story
I was getting so tired of those 'someone answers' videos, this one is an example of why I subscribed to this channel.
I went in to this video thinking "Why am I watching this." Then halfway through I had to pause it to pick my jaw up off the floor before watching the rest. Awesome video.
The average dog has as many as 300 million olfactory receptors in his or her nose
_Meanwhile my dog_
**sniff its' own butt**
lol
He's probably doing complicated medical diagnostics lol
Butt sniffing for dogs is like nosing over a glass of wine for a sommelier.
It must be like a hit of crack for them
@@SrValeriolete i knew my brothers dogs cared :D
Yet another set of reasons why humans don't deserve creatures as pure and helpful as dogs.
Ehhhh Debatable
Dogs are man made
and who made you ? @@JPzizou
My doggo alert me of seizures. He's a good dog.
Really? That's actually amazing. What a *good boy.*
What do you do if you have such an alert? Do you just sit down and wait for it? Call someone?
"Just give it to me straight doctor.'
- *'WOOF!'*
We don't deserve dog
In Dog we trust.
Uh yes we do, we give them homes and food
You don't deserve a dog
I love his last answer "The Human Body is Capable of doing so much but no one uses it" xD
Why are dogs better at smelling than robots? Nobody nose....
😎
This is actually brilliant
Shout out to this guy for understanding the genuine value of the smartphone instead of treating it like a boogeyman just because it’s new. A smartphone IS power. Smell just helps you taste things better.
“Would you only feel comfortable giving up smell if you knew this device existed?” Ma’am, our own sense of smell ALREADY can’t assist our healthcare. That makes no difference.
this guys like a mad scientist. I love it.
Now let's put Hair on our phones
😂
I’d rather have a vaginitis on mine
parents gonna try and smell bud on me through the phone
Get this guy talking about sense of smell more, found it very interesting.
I agree! He should make his own channel.
@@TheFallingFlamingo Here's some more talk about science and technology of smell:
czcams.com/video/HJ8QKAXl4Oc/video.html
czcams.com/video/hL6ClTZDUNI/video.html
Wait, robots smell
Mine does. I sprayed cologne on it.
Wow, thanks for this video! It's always a true joy to get to see professionals talk about their field of expertise passionately. This was really interesting!
I love this man, more of him please. So interesting and animated.
this guy is gonna save a lot of lives some day. much respect to you and your research sir
We really don't deserve these gud bois and girls.😭
This is the most dramatic scientist I have ever witnessed.
Huge props to Emily for the amazing interview questions. Wow, that was fascinating. I can tell that she's done her research and has put serious thought into the subject before the interview. I was totally blown away when they started discussing about how the body uses perceptual engineering changes how pregnant women respond to smells.
The flamingsword You are being sarcastic, right? Interesting topic, but that was pretty bad. Information content was low too, basically confirming basic canine anecdotes.
basically dogs are smarter than robots at deciphering smell
I loved that asnwer about sphones or smell. He is a great example of the spirit of science: great passion but even greater honesty.
What was this guy sniffing before he came on the interview
Science
Everything
Glue
Cancer. But also cocaine.
Mah balls
"The body can do incredible things. Do most of us use it? No."
Woah that hit me for some reason
holy cow the nose ACTUALLY knows
if Quintin Tarantino was a scientist - this is what he would be like - Legend
This guy is awesome, very interesting video!
wow, can dogs get any more awesome?
We need more in his research please!!!! So incredible
I remember some old joke that joked that dogs didn't actually have great smell, but people believed they did, so they pretended to be and were actually just physic or something.
1:30 What a precious boy
Let the dogs show us the way!
Dogs rule.
Are they using machine learning to do scent recognition? It seems like a good fit and they can train the algorithm just like the dogs.
That's some amazing energy
"Least false positive, least false negative" isn't consistent with peer reviewed research
Description has the wrong name: it's Andreas Mershin not Mershon.
This video blew my mind, and made it clear to me that this technology is a LONG way off. Not even sure machine learning can solve this one as well as dogs can. When he said that they were not just detecting cancer through odors, but actually *deducing* that there was cancer based on some unknown algorithm in the dog's head I was floored. That is just insane to think that dogs have that ability.
Dogs are magic.
I love that so many people like this man and say his passion for his field is great instead of calling names. Is the internet getting nice?:)
This is such a crazy, but brilliant idea!
@wired the name of the scientist in the description is wrong... (is: mershon; should be: mershin)
Seems like a very eccentric guy. Luv it 😅
Hahaha when he yells “literally!!!!’”
Fight me. I would throw away every phone on this planet to get my sense of smell back.
What happened?
You can keep the phone. I'll take the dog.
3:27 what's good cancer
Malignant tumor with metastasis is the bad one. Some arent as dangerous. Those which tend to spread and grow are harder to be cured out of.
@@marcinm6968 that's exactly what I meant, thank you "good" cancer: only in the sense that it is not the kind that should be treated aggressively
I had a friend that had a benign (or good) tumour in her ovaries. What it meant is that she would never die of cancer, it wouldn't kill her. The only problem that this benign cancer had was that it would grow and grow and grow and become a giant mass inside her belly, and cause problems like that. Now, if it was a bad tumour, it wouldn't need to grow much to make her sick: cancer cells would spread, or metasthise, throughout the body and create new cancers that simply destroy the good cells.
Just make sure your phone doesn't get as coked up as you once you've given it that nose.
Don’t ever let your dog go to the restroom after I used it
He won’t come back
-4 Subscribers with a hammer addiction 😂😂😂
1 step closer to the smell-o-scope
I can't stop laughing at this guy. Yet he's so informative! Amazing :D :D
10:51 so wholesome
Wow your Senior Writer looks a lot like Kathryn Hahn!
Came for the science stayed for the dogs.
Really interesting!
Notice he didn't say our phones have mouths because technically they do for speaking (through the microphone) but just not for testing. Basically a mouth has more than one purpose compared to the body sensors.
someone is cooking in another room rn and it gives this so much more empathy hehe
We need the star treck diagnosis tool like the movie to take medicine to the next level
Reminds me of Feynman. Great video.
Great vid 👍 really awesome
Yay! I just adopted a puppy. A Jack Russell mix, shes awesome 🐶💙
It seems like you need to train a (sort of) neural network type of AI (giant computing power size) for 2-3 years by sniffing around and then really hone it on what "function" you are after.
Is it just me or is there a durex pack in the back at 1:26 .
This guy should smell some of this chronic I'm blazing lol
this guy reminds me of robin williams in patch adams
What if dogs are just good at guessing?
I don’t want a device checking me out. I want a dog. Can’t be bought, can’t be corrupted. Just honest love with no stipulations.
This dude is on speed
Just get a dog 🐕 😂
N i c e
2:55 Did that freak out any other headphone users?
very energetic dude
You guys misspelled the name of the inventor in the description.
Does anyone have an idea what breed the dog at 4:13 is? The black one that's sniffing the air? That‘s gotta be the most adorable little pupper I‘ve ever seen!
Looks like an older shibu inu to me
*Shiba inu my b
Megan Barnett you could be right! Thanks for the answer.
the systems are already coded?
And once your phone can 'smell' your health issues, it will tell your health insurance company, your future employer....
that's already happening without nosephones
I was born without the sense of smell, so I came to this video for an obvious reason;
It's a video of good boys and good girls.
He needs to apply machine learning and neural networks to this problem.
nice now my phone can tell me that i stink
I think our phones should be able to smell us and it should be added to Tinder.
gave me a chuckle thank you
I wish we would integrate these natural abilities of dogs into our lives more instead of trying to artificially recreate it.
sure just get everyone a dog trained to detect all diseases. seems reasonable
@@GoldenMechaTiger www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk/media-coverage/
Dog proceeds to smell it's own butt
This man is extremely interesting, I hope they will make more videos with his interviews
I'm curious about exactly WHEN a dog can detect cancer. Does it depend on the type of cancer? Can they detect before cancer occurs? What about cancer are the smelling? 🤔
Amazing
what dog is in the thumbnail?
WOW THIS IS FASCINATING!!!
I wanna sit in this guy's lecture
Here is one: czcams.com/video/hL6ClTZDUNI/video.html
Very cool.
3:55 Dog: I think I smell cancer! (Sniff, sniff)... Human! This way!!
As much as I love his ideas & take on things, I take issue with his claim that he'd rather lose his sense of smell bc "most people dont use it".
Umm.......your olfactory sensors are literally what give you a sense of TASTE as well. Seriously. Try holding your nose while you eat something: you won't be able to distinguish any tastes, only textures. Taste & smell go hand-in-hand with each other. Idk about you, but I wouldnt want to lose TWO senses at once. You can have my phone.
The "lose your phone" option only makes sense if it means lose cell phones forever. If I could just go get a new phone in a couple days there's no way that's anywhere near as valuable as your sense of smell.
@@JoshLarson agreed! answer completely depends on context
fantastic
Fascinating. I can’t smell at all.
Smell-O-Vision is coming. We have the camera.