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A Biological Data Centre represents a new generation of computing infrastructure. Instead of relying solely on conventional silicon chips, it uses “wetware” — living biological neurons derived from stem cells — to process information and support AI systems. In contrast to traditional data centres, which depend on energy-intensive servers, biological computing offers the potential for significantly greater efficiency by harnessing brain-like organoids that can operate using only a fraction of the power required by digital computers.
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One day, we will look back to the time when people were allowed to die with tired unblinking eyes.
Uh oh
woopsie
This will in no way come back to “haunt” us…
This research will be funding Chairs at university Ethics departments for decades to come.
hmm, I should watch that again.
xfiles?
Dollhouse
They should use the neurons of the tech oligarchs if they’re so smart.
They’ll have to add ketamine to the bionutrient slurry.
That’s my breakfast smoothie.
a meal for a champ!
New grift just dropped
I’m sure “mn” means “mamoneters.”
(the correct abbreviation is MM, a la Roman numeral M for 1000. Mil Mil, or, 1000x1000.)
I think they were trying to abbreviate million
Which is why I provided the correct way to do so.
Which also says that mn is common…
Sush, don’t argue with the fun police.
Because I was wrong?
What interface are you using that has user tagging on .world?
I was there. They let me take a picture of the tech.
Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.
I think that’s true in a very literal sense
I’m sure people will approach this news story in a sane and well-reasoned manner.
Dear humanity,
Consider maybe not.
Thanks,
-A HumanDon’t be fooled. They are illithids in disguise.
Looks like “mars express” is becoming real.
This is the worst fucking idea I’ve ever heard. Please don’t create the Mother Brain and hook it up to the internet.
Also: Does it count as AGI if it’s just a gigantic human brain?
Honestly though, let’s just do it. The world is gonna end no matter what we do at this point, at least this finale is interesting.
I was bullshitting with my friends one night talking about nonsense like how we would die. One of the friends pipes up and says if they got cancer or something horrible that they would try and take out as many people as possible. I asked them what they meant and they said they would steal a bus and run over a bunch of people. I was stunned and asked why and they said they wouldn’t go out like a bitch.
You should sow some better targets into your friends subconscious. Get them mad at someone other than their fellow workers.
No offense but your friend sounds like a bitch.
Like if I said “yeah no I’m really tough I can punch a baby” I would be a pussy 110%. Like no shit you could punch a baby, they are like cannocially helpless. Fight a boxer or something smh
I never looked at them the same again. It was a chick to.
🫤
Ah these guys. Weren’t they the ones using electo shock therapy on their “organoids” to “teach” (force) them to play Doom?
https://hwbusters.com/news/human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/
And didn’t said organoids mysteriously “fire” the moment someone walked into the lab?
Nah, it’ll be fine.
Hey, here’s a cool idea. Why not take “samples” from “neurodivergent” children (let’s say… 500cm^3), finely sliced, and bathe them in Adderal, Dr Fucking Mengele. Just think how “on task” the compute will be!
In fairness, the ScienceAlert piece notes that if any start to show signs of consciousness, they will consider shutting the project down.
Which is reassuring in the way that a fire extinguisher on a rocket is reassuring.
PS: sorry if I was unclear. STOP FUCKING CREATING BRAINS IN A VAT, YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.
Yup, I ain’t donating none of my DNA, stem cells or nothing. Sorry organ receiver, I don’t want clones of me being used in endless hellish torment after I’m gone. Burn every trace of my existence, thanks. Gonna live like Jerome in Gataca, with a little vacuum cleaner to clean up after my skin cells.
Imagine this company landed the 23 and me database which was sold at open auction?
Heh the angel of death got to live out a full life. I mentioned this in another post; don’t be surprised if your brain gets cross sectioned and scanned before being cremated.
I’m pretty sure they want Pantheon as the endgame. Xeroscaping your brain into an image, an image they can spin up and make you work in VR forever.
That would suck so bad. I hope someone will give me a double tap and destroy mine when I pass.
You sure we haven’t been already?
Ah. This is a simulation.
We must have done something heinous in “the real.”
Or you opposed roko’s Basilisk.
Yeah, that checks out.
I’m sure it’s been going on for a while at this point
They were also engineered to be deficient in a protein that’s essential for the normal function of neurons.
Given the careful engineering of the organoids to inhibit normal function, the researchers are not worried at this stage. However, if any start to show signs of consciousness, they will consider shutting the project down.
Making them stupid so they don’t appear “human”
“if they show signs of consciousness we’ll shut it down” is so absolutely batshit especially when you consider people like me learned while in school that fish don’t feel any pain.
We were extremely confidently incorrect about that one…
This is fucking abhorrent.
