Das mag zwar ein Albtraumtreibstoff sein, aber ich werde es an die Öffentlichkeit bringen.
BBC – Wissenschaftler züchten kleine menschliche Gehirne, um Computer anzutreiben
Kraft für KI: Leichter gesagt als gebaut
Der Energie- und Rechenleistungsbedarf für KI und Rechenzentren ist RIESIG.
Eine alptraumhafte Vorstellung, die ich hatte, war, ob jemand einen Weg finden würde, das menschliche Gehirn als eine Art CPU für einen Computer zu nutzen.
Eine Reihe von Menschen, die angeschnallt, an Infusionen und Katheter angeschlossen und angeschlossen sind, um die Verarbeitungskapazität für ein Rechenzentrum bereitzustellen. Sie werden (theoretisch) für ihre Zeit bezahlt und (theoretisch) mit Schutzmaßnahmen am Arbeitsplatz ausgestattet. Es ist möglicherweise nicht ganz so effektiv wie ein herkömmliches Setup, bietet aber einige Vorteile. Geringerer Platzbedarf der Infrastruktur, geringerer Energiebedarf und wahrscheinlich schwierigere Abschaltung. An warmen Bodys herrscht kein Mangel. In einer prognostizierten Welt chronischer Arbeitslosigkeit und Unterbeschäftigung ist Meat Computing billig.
Wie gesagt, Albtraumtreibstoff.
"Renting" brains to provide processing power for Data Centers.
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Sooo….servitors from Warhammer 40k? Cool cool cool. We’re definitely on the good timeline, alright.
I was always annoyed that this wasnt the premise for the matrix
There was an episode in the latest season of black mirror that is essentially this
À very good friend of mine is working on a related field where they are using rat brains for similar purposes
It’s an exciting new way to grow the massive appetite of AI without consuming that much power
Brains are much more efficient than AIs are at launch, the energy consumption of AI decreases rapidly, in 1 year a Chinese lab has decreased a model with o1 levels of capacity by a factor of 1000
But biology already has done most of the work, it’s not wired to how we power our AIs, but this is exciting and can mitigate many of the problems of AI data centers
Your brain physically changes in response to what its used for, I don’t know if I want to use a brain that’s been plugged into a data center all day. Who knows what sort of thinking that would reinforce.
If anyone is watching Pluribus this reminds me of that. An entire planet connected together psychically – talk about a super computer!
Matrix was right, we will really end up as battery to power the machines…
They can have mine if it pays enough haha. Sounds better that slaving away all day physically
**THIS** is what makes sense as far as why the machines would have kept humans alive in The Matrix. We would make terrible batteries! Absolutely abysmal. But our brains would be fantastic computer modules.
I mean…
In Halo (the video game) lore they used the brains of genius‘ to make their Smart AI. Like, Dr. Halsey cloned herself just so she could take out her clone’s brain and make Cortana. (She disguised the cost and process under the cost of cloning the S-II candidates defective replacement clones; that were meant to cover up the mass kidnapping of children for an unethical scientific and military experiment; which created super soldier children to put down rebellious factions across the UNSC. Then the aliens showed up.)
So, as a sci-fi nerd, who saw the Star Trek Communicators become reality as Cell Phones, I am entirely unsurprised to see human brains being used to create AI.
Ya puedo ver empleos de 8 horas donde usan la energía de tu cerebro para alimentar estas máquinas. Después te vas para tu casa.
Oh, like the final boss of Deus Ex Human Revolution, then. Human brains used as the processing cores of an actual computer. It’s not even close to ’nightmare fuel‘; it signals an arrival at a level of de-humanization that can only mean society as we know it is at its end.
Ahh we don’t have to worry… There are already commercial solutions using human brain cells for AI and it’s way most cost effective than having to deal with sentience and the whole rest-of-the-human that comes along with it.
e.g. You could just order a Cortical Labs CL1 (~$20K IIRC), which is cheaper than dealing with a full human for a few months. Plus they don’t quit, whine, or form unions either: https://corticallabs.com/cl1
I’d say the more realistic scenario is that they start using biological processors that are practically lab-grown human brains, that eventually become complex enough to gain some sort of sentience.
No thanks, I’ve read Bear Head thank you very much
Using the brain in a living, developed human body is probably not possible. It would be like removing your limo’s engine in favor of Flintstones-style foot power.
And if it *was* possible, take comfort that they still wouldn’t do it, for the same reason that you’re losing your job to a robot. If brain tissue is an effective computing substrate, why waste money paying humans anything at all when you could have a rack of purpose-cloned wetware? You don’t want your processors to be wasting valuable energy on consciousness and emotions.
Do you want an AI apocalypse? Because this is how you get an AI apocalypse.
Tbh, utilising the properties of synaptic connections at scale would be a pretty energy efficient way do parallel computing, might be useful for solving complex physics based problems.
Only really applicable when we sort out the ethics issue though….
Wasn’t this basically the plot of a [Black Mirror episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)), when >!it turns out that the „cloud servers“ that Rivermind runs on are other users‘ brains while they’re in „sleep“ mode.!<
Both OP and the media around this are massively obfuscating the true nature of the tech here – organoids are not brains, and there would be no use in even doing this sort of thing with anything resembling a full brain.
But hey, insane dystopian sounding things get clicks I guess so /shrug
It would be more practical to connect the brain to wifi
My partner described this to me from ma biology journal article a few months ago.
It’s incredibly disturbing given how little we know about consciousness.
On a related note, imagine something like an organized religion worshiping u/The-Squidnapper’s [21-Second God](https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5968).
You have a cult of baseline humans with neuralink who deify the technological eldritch abomination which is formed when they connect all their brains into a superhumanly intelligent hivemind. Most of the time they’re individuals, but they always tithe a few minutes a day in ‚meditative prayer‘ serving as auxiliary processing nodes, staggered so the god always has some percentage of its cultists plugged in at any given time to continue existing.
In exchange for this, their god uses its superhuman intelligence to grant the faithful miracles.
Also it’s a pyramid scheme, the more numerous the faithful, the less time any individual faithful has to spend plugged in and the smarter and consequentially more powerful the god gets.
Tienen que leer „Alien Cicatrix“ de Corrado Malanga. Van a alucinar.