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The full video from Cortical Labs explaining how they put 200,000 brain cells onto a silicon chip and had it play Doom is wild: “When a demon appears on the left of the screen, specific electrodes stimulate the sensory area of the neural culture on the left side. The...

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Trung Phan6 months ago

link:

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Andy Beard6 months ago

AGI will happen in 2026... ... using human brain cells 😜 I have concerns for the 8 billion population

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Trung Phan6 months ago

I’m eating the steak

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Ben6 months ago

the headline is neurons playing Doom. the actual story is a working bidirectional interface where spikes get read as motor commands in real time. that's not a demo, that's architecture.

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Velco Dar6 months ago

A look behind the scenes with Cortical’s lead scientist

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Tech With Matteo6 months ago

The detail about specific electrodes firing when a demon appears on the left is what makes this so unsettling and fascinating at the same time. Do you think we are closer to hybrid biocomputing than most people realize?

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Авдий Komguem6 months ago

That's really amazing, i've been thinking about something like that years ago! Can these system running on cells be like Operating systems(Windows, Ubuntu, MacOs) or just like Ai(that are just useful for computing) ?

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Duke Skyrunner6 months ago

Doom is ok. Silent Hill would be unethical. ⚠️Anyway, Robocop reality : incoming in 3 - 2 - 1 ⤵️

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Tomasz Łakomy6 months ago

Next step: Rickroll

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Sats Nakamondo6 months ago

I have a yogurt, flashback!

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gamecrypto6 months ago

$dishbrain 8EhTCzu4f4nEMjuHTiPevG3FGbPzEg8hLnUWKfQTpump

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Mihai Matei6 months ago

@grok is this real?

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X6 months ago

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SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO6 months ago

neurons speedrunning hell

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Anonymous Troll Demon6 months ago

Are they trying to tell us we're doomed or something? 🤔

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Mihai Matei6 months ago

@grok this is crazy

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Cheryl6 months ago

Just don't use my brain cells in case it holds me back from passing on when I die.

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OhTheHumanity!6 months ago

May you find Yeshua before a clump of cells sent from the Epstein cabal does.

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yuppiedoge6 months ago

So instead of running trivial code like playing doom (who needs that) for free on 1980s hardware, anyone would pay for this? The actual computation is trivial probably 50 lines of code if then loops. It doesn’t “see” or anything.

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MOE DAMERON6 months ago

I’m reading comments and people seem shook up by this. Don’t worry folks they gon need a lot more brain cells to match the output of our NATURAL BRAINS! NATURAL BRAIN CELLS ONLY!🔥🫡

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NewsExplained6 months ago

Curious where researchers see the biggest near-term applications for biological computing — research labs or drug discovery?

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Bob6 months ago

Pro-choicers BTFO

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ForkingGizmo6 months ago

@DrPippaM Pentagon finally has its "human taking the decision to shoot or not" conundrum solved ! hooray !

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Yield Prince6 months ago

Pandora's box

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z3tsux6 months ago

Check this out $CL1 8Upn5PyPivLhpVP7DKCP4uYXdcNxdd34jz3P9Zdbpump

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KK6 months ago

Would Neuralink here be able to help?

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elonhub6 months ago

This is wild. Reminds me of the debate around emergent capabilities - these neurons aren't 'trained' in the traditional sense but still learn. Reminds me of some AI trading agents we've tested - the behavior that emerges is sometimes unexpected.

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Dr. T6 months ago

What if you connect these to an insect to make an hybrid cyborg?

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𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙧 ® 💎6 months ago

Ok it works for doom because aiming is only left and right This is like a primitive eye.

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