Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
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Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#2I understand it's early days, but that is horrifying.
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#3this does seem like it would skip a lot of the questions about whether it’s even possible to make a machine intelligence
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#4Just think… if we can get it up to a few million cells and provide it with a blood supply, maybe even lungs and a heart, we might be able to model a mouse!
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#5this does seem like it would skip a lot of the questions about whether it’s even possible to make a machine intelligence
Naively, isn’t this the obvious first step?
The only known thing to have produced general intelligence is biological. Why would the first artificial general intelligence be a computer? We don’t even know what the brain does.
What’s the chances we stumble upon a hardware and software combination that was sufficient first go?
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#6Really hoping human brain cells don't necessarily create consciousness, in this case.
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#7Really hoping human brain cells don't necessarily create consciousness, in this case.
> hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells
A human brain has like six orders of magnitude more cells than that chip. A single ant has 250,000 neurons. A crow brain has 1,500,000,000. I don't think we have to worry yet.
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#8I understand it's early days, but that is horrifying.
At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#9"current systems are too primitive to feel or understand."
Is there evidence to suggest that if it can feel or understand, that would actually be an issue?
Every day millions of sentient beings are killed for human consumption and millions more wait in torturous conditions.
It would be odd if there was outrage over a bio computer, but not over, say, the practice of using cows and pigs for food, which feel pain, have rich emotional lives, and have the inteligence of at least small children.
Re: Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
#10I understand it's early days, but that is horrifying.
This is how the Daleks come about.