The paper addresses the question of how to test the validity of candidate systems for general odor reproduction . A novel method and three variants of tests are proposedfor this, which involve ideas from recognition and imitation and take advantage of the availability of near-perfect reproduction methods for sight and sound.
In 1950 Alan Turing proposed his imitation game, better known as the Turing test, for determining whether a computer system claimed to adequately exhibit intelligence indeed does so. This work was carried out although no such system was anywhere in sight at the time, and we are still far from it now, many decades later. The current paper raises the similarly tantalizing question of how to test the validity of a candidate system for general odor reproduction , despite such systems still being far from viable. The reasons for the question being nontrivial are discussed, and a novel method is proposed, which involves ideas from recognition and imitation , taking advantage of the availability of near-perfect reproduction methods for sight and sound.
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In 1950 Alan Turing proposed his imitation game, better known as the Turing test, for determining whether a computer system claimed to adequately exhibit intelligence indeed does so. This work was carried out although no such system was anywhere in sight at the time, and we are still far from it now, many decades later. The current paper raises the similarly tantalizing
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