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'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots
New atlas ^ | 06 30 2024 | Loz Blain

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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1 posted on 07/04/2024 6:28:40 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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2 posted on 07/04/2024 6:31:22 AM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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Abbey something...


3 posted on 07/04/2024 6:39:07 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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That was quick!


4 posted on 07/04/2024 6:54:16 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: yesthatjallen; Allegra
Already been done in Fallout 4.


5 posted on 07/04/2024 6:58:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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Great. Bet Boston Dynamics is licking its robotic chops...


6 posted on 07/04/2024 7:00:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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7 posted on 07/04/2024 7:01:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (IThey intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


8 posted on 07/04/2024 7:04:48 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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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.


9 posted on 07/04/2024 7:09:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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And Skynet becomes sentient...


10 posted on 07/04/2024 7:38:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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Johnny Depp? (Transcendence)


11 posted on 07/04/2024 9:31:54 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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has no one seen doctor who??


12 posted on 07/04/2024 4:16:20 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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