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If abortion is banned because a cell cluster is human, this should be banned too

Killbot industry: "We would never let a machine make the final decision. There'll always be a human element involved"

Human element:

So if the paddle hit the ball, the cells would receive a nice, predictable stimulus. But if it missed, the cells would get four seconds of totally unpredictable stimulation.

Ah yes, my second step after building biological AI is definitely "torture it". This is sure to end well.

Dudun Dun Dudum. Dudun Dun Dudum.

The DishBrain's advanced learning capabilities, in other words, could underpin a new generation of machine learning, particularly when embodied in autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots. It could give them, says Razi, "a new type of machine intelligence that is able to learn throughout its lifetime."

literally motherfucking cylons, y'all

This is fine

Aw sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension.

I feel like this was the origin story for the computer in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

This has both more potential and more pure horror than any of the bland AI stuff we've been obsessing over.

Why can't we get Jurassic Park before biological AI?

I still feel that silicone is more reliable than dealing with organic matter that can die.

How do they keep it alive. Do you need to feed it or keep it in special conditions? With time, as the cells age, would you lose performance?

That's why we need science fiction, to not be afraid of all the abhorrent and abhorrently efficient weapons the future holds for us.

And yes, Star Wars is a very perceptive choice of name on part of George Lucas.

The scary part is that we all sit on our sweaty bottoms while such things are being developed not by bad guys and good guys to fight each other over us, but by bad guys and bad guys to fight each other over us.

I'm so glad I just ordered all of those sweet Cronenburg shirts

of course the military is interested in this... god.

I'm pretty sure if you just search the term "cyberpunk" you'd find at least five stories that start like this.

I wonder, at the point where it’s neurons making up a very small piece of tissue, what benefit human cells give over something like a pig (the article does say human and mouse, but still).

We're really trying to find a way to boost LLM performance, huh

Great, but concerning...

I'm aware that we're currently capable of reading the mind to some limited extent, using MRI-like machines and machine learning models trained on certain brain signals, but being able to literally utilise a brain for 'arbitrary' processing is on another level entirely 😳

I wonder what else this is capable of doing or running, and the expected shelf life in particular, seeing as it's basically biological matter that I'm assuming can age.

Let's hope these researchers keep things responsible and don't try to run a text generation model on it 😅 /s

It was scary stuff, but radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but...it gave us ideas, took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have never...All my work was based on it. -- Miles Dyson, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

My name is Alex James Murphy

So they want to make Servitor AI ?

All I hear is “brainzzzzzzzz”

Reminds me of this video

Edit: also this one

The thought emporium has a great series of videos of the work they are doing related to this.