Posted on 07/04/2024 6:28:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to re-home human brain cells in artificial bodies.
Biocomputing is one of the most bizarre frontiers in emerging technology, made possible by the fact that our neurons perceive the world and act on it speaking the same language as computers do – electrical signals. Human brain cells, grown in large numbers onto silicon chips, can receive electrical signals from a computer, try to make sense of them, and talk back.
More importantly, they can learn. The first time we encountered the concept was in the DishBrain project at Monash University, Australia. In what must've felt like a Dr. Frankenstein moment, researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment, and watched this horrific cyborg abomination learn to play Pong within about five minutes. The project was quickly funded by the Australian military, and spun out into a company called Cortical Labs.
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Abbey something...
That was quick!
Great. Bet Boston Dynamics is licking its robotic chops...
Story by Stanislaw Lem.
A man develops the belief that he is a brain in a jar on a shelf.
He can’t love his wife, his children.
His friends, wife try to help him. He sees a therapist to talk him back to reality.
They are all brains on a shelf.
Verse 1:
Thought I was a cowboy, ridin’ the range free,
With a heart full of dreams and a wild destiny.
But fate took a turn, and here I am, morose,
A brain in a jar, not even riding a horse.
Chorus:
Oh, I’m just a brain in a jar on the shelf,
Thinkin’ ‘bout the days when I was by myself.
No more ridin’ high under the big open sky,
Now I’m just a shelf-brain, watchin’ time go by.
Verse 2:
I remember the sunsets, the feel of the wind,
The sound of the river where the trails would bend.
Now it’s just silence, in this glass prison cold,
Longin’ for the life that I used to hold.
Chorus:
Oh, I’m just a brain in a jar on the shelf,
Thinkin’ ‘bout the days when I was by myself.
No more ridin’ high under the big open sky,
Now I’m just a shelf-brain, watchin’ time go by.
And Skynet becomes sentient...
Johnny Depp? (Transcendence)
has no one seen doctor who??
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