The video ends with a call to developers and researchers to come and interact with the open Cortical Labs CL1 API – to see what they can build. “The neurons are ready.”
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-Fran- This is interesting, but I have to ponder: isn't the whole point of making machines not biological about removing the fragility (as much as possible) of humans? Did they quote a failure rate for their prototypes? I say this, because to my understanding neurons are very fragile in the human body (hence why whacking someone in the head is not a good thing). Humans compensate, somewhat, by having quite a lot of them: ~85000 million with a quick search. Still, it doesn't take away the amazingness of it. I look forward to the medical applications of this. Regards. Reply
Spuwho They aren't recreating the biological neurons physically, they are reproducing them digitally. So the "hit in the head" argument is not quite analogous. They are attempting to impress human engrams that are based on bio-neural pathways onto silicon. By playing Doom, they are baselining the capabilities of their work. Technically they could attempt to recreate any mammal since they all use bio-neural driven brain processing, but we haven't developed ways to test them because humans don't know how all mammals think. What is deduced, what is experiential, and what is instinctual. Reply
-Fran- Spuwho said: They aren't recreating the biological neurons physically, they are reproducing them digitally. So the "hit in the head" argument is not quite analogous. They are attempting to impress human engrams that are based on bio-neural pathways onto silicon. By playing Doom, they are baselining the capabilities of their work. Technically they could attempt to recreate any mammal since they all use bio-neural driven brain processing, but we haven't developed ways to test them because humans don't know how all mammals think. What is deduced, what is experiential, and what is instinctual. Thanks for the clarification. Very badly named tech then 😀 Regards. Reply
patriotpa Since when is it legal to play with human brain tissue? Reply
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