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SeaJ to [email protected]English • 10 months ago

'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots

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'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots

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SeaJ to [email protected]English • 10 months ago
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Living brain cells wired into organoid-on-a-chip biocomputers can now learn to drive robots, thanks to an open-source intelligent interaction system called MetaBOC. This remarkable project aims to re-home human brain cells in artificial bodies.
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    19•10 months ago

    There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article:

    …researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment

    that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment

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      5•10 months ago

      Some amphibians have less than two million.

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        11•10 months ago

        And they are ceos!

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        4•10 months ago

        The amount isn’t necessarily an indicator of intelligence, the nunber of connections is very important too

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      5•10 months ago

      In a couple years, they’ll be able to make Trump voters.

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