Here's Where it Begins--Lab-Grown Brain Cells Play Pong

[9outof10mms]

What could go wrong?!

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment. Experts describe the work as ''exciting'' but say calling the brain cells sentient is going too far. The technology might eventually be used to test treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

https://ground.news/article/lab-grown-brain-cells-play-video-game-pong_be8c7d

Tag this thread so the future humans can see where the machines were given sentient capabilities.

On the serious side, it would be cool if this research can stop or even reverse things like Alzheimer's or others.

On the more-serious-er side, we're not smart enough to handle this kind of power and it makes me uneasy.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

Maybe I will live to see the AI wars after all

 

[Tarowah]

Well this gives me hope that the mental illness that is liberalism can possibly be cured!!

 

[Cowboy]

Well this gives me hope that the mental illness that is liberalism can possibly be cured!!

I highly doubt it.

 

[MostWanted]

It would probably win a debate against the Vice President.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

It would probably win a debate against the Vice President.

She'd win on random cackling and horse teeth but lose on making any sense at all.

 

[jimmyjames8]

This is how the Daleks got started

 

[Catfish]

Don’t worry. As soon as it’s smart enough to surf porn, it will stop getting any smarter.

 

[yard mongrel]

Capable only of responding to stimuli? Sounds like they're ready for the workforce.

 

[DrScaryGuy]

Capable only of responding to stimuli? Sounds like they're ready for the workforce.

i wish our workforce responded to stimuli. flashing lights and buzzers going off, and they just stand there talking to each other...

 

[nhusa]

It would probably win a debate against the Vice President.

And defiantly Brandon…