Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.

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  • Bread@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    Scientist: Hey Doc, you gonna use that foreskin you just cut?

    Doc: No, go right ahead!

    Scientist: thanks.

    This is how I imagine this conversation goes down.

    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yes, except there’s also a line where the doc says, ‘will you attest to the institutional review board that you won’t use this to make a Kaiju/clone Hitler/travel through time and kill your grandfather, etc?’

      And then they give it to them.

      • Bread@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Those rules only exist because somebody couldn’t help but travel through time to kill their grandfather Hitler who may or may have not have been a clone. It happens every time they don’t enforce it.