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'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots (newatlas.com)
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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 months ago (18 children)

That raises a lot of ethical concerns. It is not possible to prove or disprove that these synthetic homunculi controllers are sentient and intelligent beings.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article:

...researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment

that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Some amphibians have less than two million.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

The amount isn't necessarily an indicator of intelligence, the nunber of connections is very important too

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