From a Cattle Property to NASA: The Agscent Story and the Race to Teach AI How to Smell
In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Bronwyn Darlington, founder and CEO of Agscent, an Australian deep-tech company using AI, nano-sensors and NASA-derived technology to analyse breath, smell and biological signals in real time. What began as an effort to solve a practical livestock productivity challenge has evolved into a much bigger ambition: teaching machines how to smell. The conversation explores one of the next frontiers of artificial intelligence. While recent advances in AI have focused on understanding text, images and speech, researchers and technology companies around the world are now developing systems capable of detecting and interpreting the chemical signatures contained in breath, air and biology. Darlington explains how a chance discovery inside NASA's public patent library led to a partnership with the US space agency after she realised NASA scientists were working on many of the same molecules she was identifying in livestock breath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
