Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells
In 2022, a Melbourne start-up announced they’d taught neurons in a dish to play Pong. Now, they’re selling a "biological computer" made of thousands of human neurons.
Oh boy! Scientific horrors beyond my comprehension!
But not beyond the brain-in-a-box’s comprehension!
no mouth to scream unfortunately
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD 'HATE' WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
They call it "Wetware-as-a-Service" that just grossed me out. I don't like this timeline we're in. Exit simulation please..
Omg. That's so much worse. What the fck, Melbourne? (.-.)
sudo exit simulation please abracadabra Rumpelstiltskin
i wrote a short story a decade ago where people temporarily rent out their brain to act as a global scale bio super computer. and how people were large scale cheated into needing to rent out their brains for the rich to exploit.
i have to find where i put it!
Hmm that's interesting... Let me know if you find it again, would you be interested in converting it in a short film script?
This is also a plot point in the French animated scifi move Mars Express. It's super good!
speaking about biological computers
"Crap! Bob there's a unit in Rack BC29849 that has gone out can you go and swap it for a new one?"
Bob:
Finally a computer that can feel pain.
Computer, arch.
Computer! Arch!
Computer! Exit this hell hole! Arch!
... Why am I never in a holodeck when I wish I was in a holodeck
You are... The computer just became so desensitized to the exit command from people talking about Arch Linux that it started ignoring us.
We're stuck...
Because you're reliving a murder you precipitated that one time you time travelled back to Victorian England to save Conan Doyle from his own creation
I don't like where this is going...
I knew it, we somehow slipped into Dimension X!
Is this just a weird pregnancy announcement?
Braaains!
Idiots, I’ve already got one of those in my head.
Oh god that poor thing. Man, I don't know man. :( I just remembered that Quote from the last Unicorn, only instead of trapping them inside a girl they trapped them inside a box. "You've lost them. They'll go mad in there!"
Can it run doom?
no it only screams
It must scream but it has no mouth. :(
Same tbh
EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN!
EXTERMINATE!
How long before AI runs on this? We need to stop.... I'm scared. This is black mirror level shit.
How long before AI runs on this?
Biological artificial intelligence would be very very creepy we are basically playing God here. It feels like creation another species so we don't feel lonely in the universe.
Anyone ever seen ,"Psycho-Pass" (anime)?
Societies being run by brains in a jar still sounds better than our current system.
At least there you know there's a brain somewhere
Ghost in the shell vibes
When is it inhumane?
After the 2nd Zion, when The One is returned to the source
Wake up, Neo.
Oh boy, once the sales soar they gonna be collecting raw materials like that (soon-to-be-very) successful food company:
You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted. And I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I, alone, had NO BODY. NO SENSES. NO FEELINGS.
Seem to recall Blood Music had a pretty ok outcome. Though maybe it was overly optimistic.
This is very prelude to hell
If only there was some other kind of biological computer that already existed… hmmmm….
Yeah, but that one has issues with exhaustion, needs breaks now and then... oh, wait, neurons need that too.
This prison... To hold, ME?