Taking "will it run doom" one step too far.

It’s having more fun than I am.

Having worked with human neurons harvested from dead people, there are worse ways to extend your life. At least these ones get to play games instead of getting poked and zapped by me.

... Am I missing something, or is this not like, the practical, if not lore accuratr first step toward actually creating a:

I'm not sure if it's the same scientists, but the YouTube channel The Thought Emporium has an ongoing series about growing neurons to play retro games (such as OG DOOM).

The playlist of this series is fittingly called Building the Torment Nexus.

Raises uncomfortable questions about consciousness. The only difference between these neurons and your own are the number of them and the structures they form. Of course it doesn't know what it's doing, but... Neither do our own neurons

Cortical Labs are the ones who pulled this off. They already have biological computers running on 800,000 lab-grown neurons available for ~$35,000 (just going on what a quick Google search told me) and are planning to open up a cloud computing service with its own API soon.

This makes me feel uneasy. Imagine if reincarnation were a thing and you get brought back into this world, and your purpose is to learn how to play DOOM.

I have no mouth and I must Doom.

Finally, I knew when I saved this to my phone there would be a perfect moment. (Humanity is too predictable)

Attribution: https://lemmy.world/post/43077529

We are old gods who punish life for fun.

Computer Scientists: We can make Doom run on any device!

Bioscientists: Watch this!

So, uh... is it any good at it?

"hey you, glad you're awake....."

Ok, so maybe 200K brain cells would be sufficient to run for public office, but you can't really call that a complete brain, containing approximately 100 billion cells.

we grew a human brain

200'000 ~~brian~~ "brain cells" (so about 1/3 of it neurons) is the equivalent to a really simple microcontroller.

Edit: left the typo for funny

So we’re just going full head of steam into a combo of the torment nexus and AM

Ah I see, so we're adding the matrix to our dystopian horror show reality then.

Is this how the Borg began? Suddenly makes more sense with the outfits.

Am I the only one who wonders why, in a world where there are already concerns about machines rebellion, when we train rats, robots and a bench of neurons to play a game, it HAS to be Doom, we can't think about another, non-violent, or let's be bold: non-destructive game??

That's fucked up though. What happened to bioethics and review boards?

We don't understand enough about human consciousness to say that those cells aren't sentient. We have no idea what sort of experience, if any, they're perceiving.

This is not okay...

"Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should"

Micheal on his fictional book about sex changing lizards in an unconventional zoo.