Rat Brain in a Dish Pilots Flight Simulator

[gabossie]

I appologize for being on such a thread making rampage today, but this is crazy. Very interesting though.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/1....html

[SDRonEbay]

And Skynet was born.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Its amazing how living things have a tendency to organize into a functional group or organ. Its equally amazing that this homemade brain could actually learn. So how long until things like this are directly communicating with computers and helping to write more complex AI routines? How long till I can have a pet robot leprechaun with one of these brains?

[yelnatsch517]

Its amazing how living things have a tendency to organize into a functional group or organ. Its equally amazing that this homemade brain could actually learn. So how long until things like this are directly communicating with computers and helping to write more complex AI routines? How long till I can have a pet robot leprechaun with one of these brains?

Why would u want a leprechaun when you can have a dwarf or and elf? Psh, people these days.

[book-ends]

Big deal.........I bet I can fly a plane better than I dish full of brains. What would be cool is if the dish-o-brains suddenly called itself "Maverik" or "Ice Man".

[JESTER]

And Skynet was born.

Yeah, what he said......

Stuff like this concerns me. I love that we are discovering things to help better life, and cure what ill's us, but we are going to mess up one day. Some things may be better left alone. Not saying this is one of those things, well, okay, maybe. I really dont want a plate full of rat brains to be in control of a Stealth b0mber armed with a Nuke.

And if you give the bio monster, rat cyborg, a plane, car, or anything else like that, they will screw some stuff up.

[HashiriyaS14]

So the question they failed to answer was....did it fly competently? If so I'm going to invest in whatever company that guy works for, lol.

[GoinBoostYey]

And Skynet was born.

That is kinda freaky.

[Altiman94]

major advancements in biomedical fields every day. I love this stuff.

[SDRonEbay]

Technically if you're not flying a plane, you're crashing it.

Subsequently, it doesn't matter how it flew it, it matters how it landed it.

[Mr1der]

I for one welcome our new rat brain overlords.

[base9se]

major advancements in biomedical fields every day.

New discoveries are great!

[navysnail]

that is absolutly AMAZING, just think in 10 years...

[Mr1der]

robot body with chainsaw hands.

bzzzz!!!

[w1ngzer0]

lol. Skynet. Just depends how it goes. If it goes into just computers with no human contact. Then yes Skynet. If the only way to do commands with human voice or typed in then welcome to biocomputers. Instead of a CPU,memory, or HD. You will just have a giant brain.

Though i would put a box over it because it would gross me out after the first 5min of looking at it hahaha...

[Dattebayo]

lol

a far cry from Skynet, those are just cordical fibers in there. When we get some autonomic functions on a chip, thats when you start raising your eyebrows.

[Mr1der]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm so ready to have my brain control an F-22...I'd have it doing things never thought possible with an airplane.

Like masturbatlon...

[The Mic]

your capitalization confuses me

[jdmfreak]

Banginess!

[themadscientist]

good, maybe they can install it in SUVs so the "challenged" drivers can quit whacking our cars trying to park those big bastards.

[Drift Machine]

heheh you mean SKYNEWS