Now I wait for some internet strangers to tell me why is this not groundbreaking at all
Nah chief, it’s pretty groundbreaking. I mean we don’t know how to specifically target existing connections to strengthen the sheathe between existing brain cells, but connecting two brain cells at all, manually, is such a feat
Bro, my brain alone has like millions of cells and these guys are getting all excited over, what, six!?
Babies can literally do this, not impressed
Brain cells have already existed for millions of years. This is nothing revolutionary.
This seems like a better candidate for AI, GPUs are just to energy inefficient.
Ehhh… no, not really https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x
That compares a whole human vs. A graphics card. If you only have connected brain cells, I imagine that it would be much cheaper than having to sustain a whole body.
Would it still be AI if it gains its own intelligence?
Maybe I missed it but my ultimate pet peeve of these articles about scientific breakthroughs is that they neither credit a single name of a scientist in their article nor even just putting a single link to the work. I know its likely behind a paywall (darn you scientific publishing), but still!
I browsed a bit through Nature Communications and haven’t seen the article…
They did name someone. Googling his name returns this, which I assume is the right paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46787-7
I missed the name, thank you!
more like darn you current interpretation of capitalism for forcing all of us to keep us hungry for profit in order to survive
surely there is a better economic model right?
If your understanding of “better” is following a single-party ideology, loss of freedom and individuality as well as censorship of speech, then yes, there are “better” models.
No possible way for this to be turned evil. Lab grown brains? Definitely could never be evil.
Should science cease to exist because most discoveries could be used for evil?
Imagine some future generations of CPUs, GPUs or APUs having little brain matter processors on them.
When your gaming pc slows down you have to refill the cerebral fluid container
this is far more likely to make things like recovery from quadriplegia possible.
Credit goes to University of Tokyo’s Dr Yoshiho Ikeuchi and colleagues.
Next up: OI, Organic Intelligence
Bio-neural gel packs from Star Trek Voyager.
Sorry, best we can do is servitors and Cherubs.
I was always curious about those. Surely they can’t be faster than computers right? I mean, whatever computers they have in the 24th century.
The idea was, as I remember, that they were most of all more efficient and performed certain tasks better(faster) than the regular computer
