The team, which worked together on a biological brain that learnt to play Pong, revealed how biocom*****g devices could improve the performance/power ratio by several orders of magnitude. They have already produced small clusters - that they call organoids - of up to 50,000 human brain cells (grown from stem cells in petri dishes).
Their next target is a 200x improvement (10 million neurons) - which is the minimum threshold for organoid intelligence according to the authors - although that would still be a far cry from human brains (80 billion neurons or 8000x more). Now, just like for supercomputers and their thousands of s and s, it is likely that several smaller so-called organoids could be brought together to mimic a bigger (mega?) brain.
Where exactly is this leading? Human brains are famous for every kind of neurosis. In the future, what is the plan for these powerful mega brains? I mean, what would your brain be up to without the distractions of a physical body?
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.”
-Elon Musk
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