Posted on 12/18/2021 9:43:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
Hundreds of thousands human brain cells grown in a petri dish have found a new meaning in life – they spend the day playing the retro videogame Pong.
Australian scientists at Cortical Labs taught the cells to play in just five minutes, which is faster than artificial intelligence (AI) that picks up the game after 90 minutes.
The system, called ‘DishBrain,’ is comprised of brain cells grown on top of microelectrode arrays that can both stimulate the cells.
To teach the mini-brains Pong, the team used a single player version of the game and sent electrical signals to either the right or left of the array to indicate where the ball is.
The brain would then fire off neurons to move the paddle back and forth according to the location of the ball.
While playing Pong, patterns of activity across the neurons are determined by the mini-brains as the paddle moving left or right.
The virtual world where the video game is played responds to this activity and the electrode's feed helps the mini-brains learn how to operate the paddle.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
maybe they should try that with real people....you know...getting them to think. the aussies need a healthy dose of thinking right now.
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So ‘Stuck on Stupid’ is a self-imposed thing.
‘DishBrain,’
Oh my word! A new term for democrats is born 😆
Lunchbucket Joey Bidet could use a heaping helping of some of that stuff.
Chess masters may have a new artificial opponent soon. Move over deep blue.
How cool is that!? They invented a wasted gamer lying around on the couch.
There were probably a lot of them for hire for a lot less than the cost of this R&D.
What could possibly go wrong? You antiscience haters need to chill out </sarcasm>
“Hundreds of thousands [of] human brain cells grown in a petri dish have found a new meaning in life – they spend the day playing the retro videogame Pong.”
I didn’t think Pong required that many brain cells to play. Three or four would have been plenty.
I’m perfectly serious here...
How does anyone know if it’s alive, conscious, and in ignorant agony or not?
How many functioning brain cells does one need to qualify as “alive?”
This is Very Bad Juju to be screwing with...
“What could possibly go wrong?”
They relocate to red states and register as demonkkkrap voters?
“Hundreds of thousands [of] human brain cells grown in a petri dish have found a new meaning in life ...”
Alcohol killing brain cells ... this might be a game changer ... wonder when the next phase of experiments are scheduled to grow brain cells in situ, in humans?
Now somebody in the defense establishment of some country will begin putting these into the targeting systems of drones and missiles.
We’ll literally be targeted by cyborgs.
The problem is that we have lawyers teaching ethics classes these days.
Their version of morality is “don’t get caught”.
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