OK, I want to meet these guys. This writeup has several breathtaking (if you will) passages. Like:

> "We found different scents by steering the beam over ~14 mm (20 degrees at 4 cm radius). The distance between freshness and burning was ~3.5 mm."

> "The olfactory system potentially allows writing up to 400, if not 800 due to two nostrils, dimensions into the brain. That is comparable to the dimensionality of latent spaces of LLMs, which implies you could reasonably encode the meaning of a paragraph into a 400-dimensional vector. If you had a device which allows for this kind of writing, you could learn to associate the input patterns with their corresponding meanings. After that, you could directly smell the latent space."

This just makes me grin with total delight. Completely freaking fascinating.

I'm also extremely intrigued by the second quote. Definitely worth it to experiment in that area.

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That is an amazing thought!