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Brain power: Swiss startup powers computers with mini human brains
KNWA ^ | Jun 19, 2024 | Reagan Netherland

Posted on 07/02/2024 6:40:18 AM PDT by Pontiac

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The first Cyborg has been created. They train the mini-brains using a carrot and stick approach, pleasure or pain. In other words do what we want or torture is what you get. This is wrong on so many levels. I am not surprised that they are doing this for Green reasons.
1 posted on 07/02/2024 6:40:18 AM PDT by Pontiac
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Oh no! DemocRAT computers!!! God help us!


2 posted on 07/02/2024 6:47:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (President Trump is a businessman first and a politician second. That's why he's good for America.)
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Swiss Miss, Instant computers, with mini-brains to go!...................


3 posted on 07/02/2024 6:49:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I think I saw this movie...


4 posted on 07/02/2024 6:50:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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“The organoids are rewarded with dopamine...”

LOL...feeding our first wetware with dope to train it. Maybe there’ll be a bigger market for all the fentanyl pouring into the country than we knew.


5 posted on 07/02/2024 6:50:50 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Lazamataz

Ping


6 posted on 07/02/2024 6:50:56 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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aoc-brain
7 posted on 07/02/2024 6:51:57 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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"...as “punishment,” the organoids are exposed to chaotic stimuli, such as irregular electrical activity."

Just like the punishment the Democrats expose us to -- a fractured, chaotic society where up and down cease to exist.

8 posted on 07/02/2024 6:53:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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Catholic Ping.

I am all for making computers more power efficient but I am not willing to do so by perverting the that which God made in his image to do so.


9 posted on 07/02/2024 6:53:46 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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As long as they are growing brains, perhaps they could transplant some that work into Democrats.


10 posted on 07/02/2024 6:54:17 AM PDT by LizzieD
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Dr. Jill has ordered a dozen of the mini-brains for Flatlinejoe to help get him through the next debate.


11 posted on 07/02/2024 7:00:48 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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“Researchers do this by training the organoids through a reward system. The organoids are rewarded with dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure (and addiction). “

Are these things self aware? One might infer that they are from the above statement.

Why use human brains?


12 posted on 07/02/2024 7:01:14 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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Reminds me of “The Feeling of Power”, a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1958 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.
Notable theme “Manned Missiles” because their trajectories were so unpredictable and that they were so much cheaper than expensive computer guided ones.
When will we start seeing “manned drones” that can evade air defense systems in Ukraine and Russia?


13 posted on 07/02/2024 7:01:37 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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The only drawback is it keeps going to Pron sites ,LOL


14 posted on 07/02/2024 7:03:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“This is wrong on so many levels. “

Why is it wrong?


15 posted on 07/02/2024 7:32:47 AM PDT by TexasGator
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My first thought of a movie for this article was Saturn 3 with Kirk Douglas.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam (Kirk Douglas) and the scientist Alex (Farrah Fawcett), who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally.

Meanwhile, the psychotic Captain Benson (Harvey Keitel) fails the mental test required to travel to Saturn 3 and kills his replacement, Captain James, taking his place in the mission of assembling and programming the Demi-God series robot Hector to replace one of the scientists in Saturn 3.

On the arrival, the mentally disturbed Captain Benson becomes sexually obsessed for Alex. Then he uses an interface to link his brain to program Hector, but incapable to control his emotions, he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.


16 posted on 07/02/2024 7:43:40 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: KrisKrinkle

“Why use human brains?”

They aren’t.


17 posted on 07/02/2024 7:44:19 AM PDT by TexasGator
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Why use human brains?

I asked the same question.

Why not mice, rabbits, pigs or any other kind of brain?

18 posted on 07/02/2024 7:46:43 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: desertsolitaire

I remember that story.

I didn’t think of it in this context, but you are right.

Human brains are cheaper to operate than silicone chips so we will use them.

Makes economic sense but is morally repugnant.

As usual money wins.


19 posted on 07/02/2024 7:50:01 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Why is it wrong?

Because humans were made in God's image.

Adulterating that which is made in God's image is an affront to God.

20 posted on 07/02/2024 7:51:59 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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