huh now it's playing badly... wait, it's morse code! _._ .. ._.. ._.. __ .
Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI
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Re: Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI
#12Full paper on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.471005v1
Re: Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI
#13The concept of using human neural networks instead of artificial neural networks is both terrifying and intriguing.
Check out „Black Oceans” by Jacek Dukaj if you’re interested in sci-fi that explores this idea.
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#14huh now it's playing badly... wait, it's morse code! _._ .. ._.. ._.. __ .
Ah, the sentient something communicating a "kill me" message. That reminds me of a scene from a movie, but I can't remember which one it was.
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#16Full paper on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.471005v1
"In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world"
Exhibiting sentience, that's a bit awkward ethically speaking.. Even though this type of testing will help us understand how our brains work.
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#17They should also compare human brain cells with chimp/dog/... brain cells. See if the human ones perform better, which would suggest there is an advantage even at the lowest cellular level.
They compared against mice. Human cells were better.
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#18The concept of using human neural networks instead of artificial neural networks is both terrifying and intriguing.
This is not the first attempt. Growing tiny brain organoids is fairly well understood, scaling it up is not. I have not read the paper but previous attempts at this have struggled with getting useful outputs out of the neural culture, most of the time the spikes just add up to noise.
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#19huh now it's playing badly... wait, it's morse code! _._ .. ._.. ._.. __ .
Ah, the sentient something communicating a "kill me" message. That reminds me of a scene from a movie, but I can't remember which one it was.
More than likely Johnny Got His Gun, although The Fly or Predator could apply.
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#20Reminds me of the book “We are legion (We are Bob)”.