News DishBrain Mixes Human and Mouse Brain Cells With Electronics

[Admin]

An Australian research team associated with the Monash University and Cortical Labs has announced it has received around $600,000 in military-connected funding towards its BrainDish research: a project fusing human and mice brain cells in a hybrid (and not scary at all) system with potential AI applications.

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[domih]

Military funding aside, this technology could bring dramatic and
spectacular new medical solutions to cure currently incurable brain or
nervous system diseases or wounds.

Plus, if you can couple biological "intelligence" with computing power,
new human (or apes) brain capabilities could appear.

If it can be done, it will be done.

 

[PEnns]

"Receives Military Funding"

The military will throw our tax money at any new, no matter how crazy idea the technocrats will come across on a given day.

Must be nice to play with someone else's money without any consequence.

 

[OpeOpeOpe]

I'm gonna be that guy and go ahead and say this seems like a bad idea with good-ish intentions. Whose brain cells did they even use for this? I've noticed that didn't even get mildly addressed. There's ethical considerations to be made using live human brain cells in experiments - gotta love the casual mentions of sentience like it's NBD.

Where are the guardrails on this kind of stuff? It's needed. I don't care how cool the science is (even if I do find it rather fascinating).

 

[OpeOpeOpe]

Military funding aside, this technology could bring dramatic and
spectacular new medical solutions to cure currently incurable brain or
nervous system diseases or wounds.

Plus, if you can couple biological "intelligence" with computing power,
new human (or apes) brain capabilities could appear.

If it can be done, it will be done.

If it can be done, it will be done.

Yeah, that's a problem, not something to admire.

 

[Geef]

I would definitely want it to be totally open source before it went in my head with no wifi. There is zero chance I want to become a drone when the president pushes a button and sends a signal out.