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We still know so little about the actual micro scale and macro scale structure and connection graph of the brain. This is a neat advance in tissue integrity but
by idiotsecant 3y ago
We still know so little about the actual micro scale and macro scale structure and connection graph of the brain. This is a neat advance in tissue integrity but it is not a brain. It's like melting sand into a pile that holds itself and considering it an advance in computing.
Still cool through.
On a side note, the brain is amazing. The more we learn about AI the more amazing it is that the brain emerges from a relatively sparse instruction set, self assembles from widely available local resources, and becomes a general purpose computing engine able to simulate enough of the world internally to promote survival and propagation of its instruction set.
- adamwong246 3y agoWell, it's not organized when you print it. It self-organizes as you train it. Yes, it is like melting sand into a pile, but this is magic sand that can re-organize itself over time.
- alvarezbjm-hn 3y agoNot a mass. It starts with one rudimentary nanobot self replicating into a galactic-like sentient machine
- postalrat 3y agoBiology is alien technology we've been trying to reverse engineer for many years yet barely understand it.
- scarmig 3y agoNeurons have the ability to self-organize into an information processing device, though. Researchers have taken rat neurons, grown them in a petri dish, and taught them to play (a simplified version of) pong [0]. A better vat might genuinely allow currently-out-of-reach computing (ignoring the ethical issues). [0] https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6