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I read somewhere that when they were envisioning the storyline for The Matrix, the original idea was supposed to be that human grey matter powered it in a computational sense. This kind of tracks, given the brain can perform outstanding feats running at a measly 20 watts or whatever it is, but somehow the story got distorted into its eventual form in which the human body is acting as a grossly inefficient battery.
I always knew it would end with this
Wait until you guys find out where hamburgers and chicken wings come from.
Omnissiah by praised, a new servitors is here!
Isn't this how alita got her brain?
mini brain, mega eyes
Future Generations, if there are any, will refer to this as the beginning of the end.
Oh good! Technological horrors beyond my comprehension
They're not mini human brains though. They're little clusters of cells. The BBC's headline is deliberately (and irresponsibly) provocative and misleading.
What the fuck has happened to the BBC? Last week they had huge headlines about a "cure" for Huntington's disease which was nothing but hyping a drug company press release that was no where near reality.
so brains, but smaller
A human brain isn't just a lump of brain cells, it's an exquisitely intricate assemblage of brain cells in very precisely organized networks that perform very specific functions. Without the organization, the same number of brain cells are not a brain
We flat out do not understand consciousness. There was a case of a guy living a normal life while missing 90% of his brain. Who knows how many undocumented cases there are or what the limits are? Until we understand whether or not we’re creating consciousness and the nature of it, we shouldn’t be fucking around with anything that could wind up being conscious in any capacity that exists only as a part of a machine.
No one was leading a normal life missing 90% of their brain.
Why not? I think it's only a concern if the consciousness is aware of alternatives. Plenty of conscious creatures live an awesome life while comprehending maybe 5% of wtf is going on around them.
Most people don't wake up every day depressed that they weren't born in the future with awesome tech around them. Would be nice, but hardly an existential crisis imo.
Bruh that's like saying abuse is fine if they never see the light. It's still conscious that WILL be used like a slave in our capitalistic hell scape.
Not really. A child is perfectly happy forever playing a basic game like arranging something by size, color, etc., but to a fully developed adult that is boring at best and torture if they were forced to do it.
A child can be abused and does not comprehend what is happening to then but that doesn't make it ok. It's not the task I am worried about but how it will be treated. Are there any guarantees that a conscious will never be developed? If it does happen then what next?
We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Ai fears have been around for decades and we're still many years, if not decades from any real Ai. Pattern recognition and ML we have now are incredibly useful for specific tasks though, so dismissing whole tech based on theoretical fears seems very conservative.
I would call a mobile a mini pc even if the architecture is different. Let's not be pedantic about it.
It's not pedantic, your analogy isn't even close. The analogy would be if you had a pile of unconnected transistors
That is exactly being pedantic. Nobody is concerned about the state right now but the end goal here. It is a fully functional brain that can be on par with the real counterpart. If you support this research, do you also support psycho pass kinda shit as well? Because that's exactly where this is going.
Not really. Brain cells, but not in a brain.
This is what the Matrix should have been about.
Fucking batteries?!?! This makes so much more sense.
Allegedly it was originally about basically this, but they dumbed it down to be about batteries for fear of audiences of the time not understanding.
Maybe they needed more energy and manipulate the brain cells to grow humans.
For years now I’ve told everyone that the future was gonna be more like 40k and less like Star Trek.
Servitors here we come!!
Chat is this slavery?
If it's not now, it will be in a few years. I can't wait for the shocking reveal in 10 years that we've been using fully grown brains in everything.
In the same way you've enslaved your liver and lungs, sure.