Can one be used to power America’s leadership?
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Only if they make the brains much smaller.
Ooh, I wonder what delightful pretzels the Christians are going to acrobat about this one.
I see nothing whatsoever that could go wrong here.
so like the AI repair station in ENTERPRISE, which uses humanoid brains to increase its CPU/processing power.
So we’ve now come full circle.
Our Startup uses mini human brains inside of biological bipedal systems to provide frontier performance in our custom internal benchmarks. /s
Explain the joke: We rebuilt humanity with a smaller brain.
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Oh so, Warhammer 40k? Soon we'll all get annoyed with AI and outlaw it, these "thinking computers" will be the way around that ban. Great, great. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts
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It's much cheaper to power computers with the brains most of us aren't using.
That's some heavy "Room 19" shit.
*Suddenly starts to play porn.
This paper was published a few years ago. I remember reading through it because it sounded very scary. In its current state I dont think it crosses any ethical bounds as its less than 30days old with no lived experience or consciousness. The ethical line should probably follow whatever the abortion debate defines consciousness as. Which I think is 30 weeks
It did spark a few ethics papers on the topic which turned out to be a horrible dry boring reads with seemingly no consensus.
The abortion debate is not something we should be basing anything on, before you know it you'll have to raise these little computers as your children and be charged with murder when they die
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do they have a midlife crisis and get radicalised by facebook and fox news in their later years?
I remember as a teen seeing a video where they put a rat brain on a microchip and trained to to fly planes in a flight simulator
Since reading that I never understood why the idea didn't get bigger.
Not a fan of using human brains for this... there's some serious ethical questions we need to untangle there.
https://www.research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v10n1/pdfs/pg04-05extracts.indd.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w41gH6x_30
Edit: I guess I never realized there's nothing stopping me from just doing this myself now. I could probably get this to connect to a raspberry pi that I have sitting around... How do I get rat brain cells though?
Edit 2: This looks more complicated than I wanted it to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
Stupid science. Nature did this all on its own in a cave in the desert and we can't make this work in a lab?
The real trick will be in figuring out some sort of solid state device - probably at least partially (if not predominantly) analog, not digital - that can reliably mimic the behaviors of biological neurons.
The actual breakthrough of AGI isn’t going to occur until we figure out how to do machine learning with analog circuit design. Digital simply does not scale well - what we’re doing now with “AI” using GPUs is simply brute forcing the problem by layering dozens of markov chains on top of each other.
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Spy Kids called it
Surely nothing bad will come from this.
"Honey? Did you remember to feed the computer today?"
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
They could just say "brains" and leave out where they came from. But nah! Gotta make it creepy.
it’s not really a brain, just small clusters of neurons
From humans. They could have used rats or fish. But nah, make it weird.
well scientists have done rat neurons too…
i reckon it’s more useful technology for future interfacing with human brains