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[Always-honest]

Awesome and stop right there. Point proven, get back to curing cancer.

 

[HolyCheck]

Awesome and stop right there. Point proven, get back to curing cancer.

you want every scientist in the world working on it?

 

[Diablos]

Feels good to live near Pittsburgh after reading this.

 

[Medalion]

 

[ColonialRaptor]

Don't worry ppls, we won't have to bow to the robot overlords, we will just become the robot overlords by the way of integration (robot nanobots integrated into our bloodstreams).

Accept or perish.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

why are you guys so freaked out about this?

The peanut gallery is freaked out by this because they don't understand, whereas the rest of us are freaked out by other things (because we do understand).

Awesome and stop right there. Point proven, get back to curing cancer.

Science is pretty much like X-Com, you just hire 100 scientists and they can work on lasers, medicine, artificial intelligence, high energy physics, biology, whatever. When you finish one project you just go on to the next one with the same team. Also, twice as many scientists means the research is done twice as fast.

 

[Always-honest]

you want every scientist in the world working on it?

imagine that.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

imagine that.

 

[dejay]

Awesome and stop right there. Point proven, get back to curing cancer.

Science doesn't work in isolation - results from one field often help the efforts in another field. One would think studying the way neurons connect and work would lead to breakthroughs in neurology. Specifically brain tumors; you know, cancer.

(edit) Meh, I probably have cancer of the sarcasm meter.

 

[warthog]

Tomorrow it will be 14 seconds, the day after we will be a mere memory.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Tomorrow it will be 14 seconds, the day after we will be a mere memory.

"Do you think computers will ever be as smart as a person?"

"Yes, but not for long."

 

[sixteen-bit]

That's fascinating.

 

[GaimeGuy]

Science doesn't work in isolation - results from one field often help the efforts in another field. One would think studying the way neurons connect and work would lead to breakthroughs in neurology. Specifically brain tumors; you know, cancer.

(edit) Meh, I probably have cancer of the sarcasm meter.

your sarcasm meter is out of control?

 

[ringofpower00]

do these people ever watch terminator....terrible idea. but cool nonetheless

The better question is do you watch terminator? Those movies weren't about AI killing us, it was about us killing us. People forgot this and made many shitty sequels upon sequels.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

The better question is do you watch terminator? Those movies weren't about AI killing us, it was about us killing us. People forgot this and made many shitty sequels upon sequels.

Pretty sure it was about a cyborg from the future that came back to kill the leader of the future human resistance after an A.I. nuked the entire world. I may be wrong though, it's been at least three months since I last watched it.

 

[Lucky Forward]

Interesting, but did the scientists really "create" something here? Or did they just set up an experiment that demonstrates an existing property of rat neurons to persistently transmit a signal?

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Interesting, but did the scientists really "create" something here? Or did they just set up an experiment that demonstrates an existing property of rat neurons to persistently transmit a signal?

They grew the rat neurons in a lab. They didn't just grab existing ones and wire them up.

 

[Scrow]

Pretty sure it was about a cyborg from the future that came back to kill the leader of the future human resistance after an A.I. nuked the entire world. I may be wrong though, it's been at least three months since I last watched it.

yes, but why did those humans create nukes, why did they create such intelligent A.I., why did they put it in charge of their military.

he's absolutely right. it all stems from their motivations and how they are self-destructive. that's the fundamental message being delivered by that movie.

 

[kehs]

That guy should have his medical degree revoked,



for being a quitter.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

 

[Angry Fork]

I'd buy a lamp that looked like that if they sold one.

Not as colorful as the OP picture but still cool. Some guy on youtube has like a 3 ft. long plasma ball it's so awesome.

 

[The Technomancer]

We just gotta make sure some asshole doesn't put it into some kind of weaponized robot.

Right. Right...we have to ....prevent that. Right. Uhm....did the article say if these guys have published yet?

 

[Scrow]

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs11/i/2006/214/5/f/Mother_Brain__Final_Battle__by_Cortus.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
heh, brain in a petrie dish controlling a huge underground military complex, spanning most of a planet. nice connection.

 

[Prez]

That guy should have his medical degree revoked,

for being a quitter.

Did you even read the comic?

 

[Insane Metal]

IT's the first step.

 

[dinazimmerman]

My body is ready.

 

[Lucky Forward]

They grew the rat neurons in a lab. They didn't just grab existing ones and wire them up.

It sounds to me like they did...

The did so by attaching a layer of proteins to a silicon disk and adding brain cells from embryonic rats that attached themselves to the proteins and grew to connect with one another in the ring seen above.

 

[umop_3pisdn]

Doesn't sound artificial.

In this context I think it just means that they put it together or that it didn't grow from an embryo, like other forms of tissue engineering or whatever, it's artificial because they used some process to put it together.

Anyways, this is awesome. I love stuff like this, brains are really interesting.

edit:

It sounds to me like they did...

That's an insignificant distinction, if they were harvested and placed on a medium that's similar in implementation to just culturing neurons, it has more to do with how they organize into networks and how they can be observed. This configuration would be never found in nature and would have to be intentionally created in a lab.

 

[Oppo]

So we have RoboBrains now. Got it.

 

[triplestation]

we are already dead

 

[CorkyFromLifeGoesOn]

They're only rat brain cells guys, nothing could possibli go wrong.

I, for one, welcome are new rat overlords.

 

[uwbaritone]

This isn't a good idea.

You're no fun. I could use some device like this to help me remember girl's names at bars. At 12 seconds, it's already an improvement over my own memory.

 

[MisterHero]

it knew more in 12 seconds than the researchers knew in 12 lifetimes

then died

 

[Deleted member 13876]

Reminds me of

 

[Prez]

So once they can mimick long term memory, there will finally be a revolution in battery technology?

 

[Always-honest]

thanx for all the serious replies.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

yes, but why did those humans create nukes, why did they create such intelligent A.I., why did they put it in charge of their military.

he's absolutely right. it all stems from their motivations and how they are self-destructive. that's the fundamental message being delivered by that movie.

You're blaming the victim. If they knew Skynet was going to go berserk they never would have built it in the first place, nor put it in charge of anything. Nuclear weapons have been promoters of peace far more than war throughout our history by their destructive nature, and the A.I. was presumably (they never mention it) put in charge to take panicky, unreliable humans off the nuclear hair trigger. The problem is, of course, that it could apparently launch without authorization, something nobody would ever design into the system even if they trusted the A.I. completely, but that's one of those things we have to excuse because it's fiction and the movie never could have happened without that implicit but stupid design decision.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

nothing could possibli go wrong.

Is.. that the first thing to go wrong?

 

[JohnTuk]

Cool. Maybe in the next few year we'll be able to buy brain spare part!

New Fontal Cortext 2100! Now with Overclock mode!

 

[pelicansurf]

We just gotta make sure some asshole doesn't put it into some kind of weaponized robot.

I like you.

 

[Punks]

 

[Red]

So once they can mimick long term memory, there will finally be a revolution in battery technology?

The batteries will revolt.

 

[RawkHawk2010]

They're only rat brain cells guys, nothing could possibli go wrong.

Tell that to the rats.

 

[AceBandage]

Robots never forget... TO KILL!

 

[Ezalc]

I for one welcome our eventual rat donut brained overlords.