> A new type of computer that combines regular silicon-based hardware with human neurons is now available for purchase.
> Inside the CL1, a nutrient-rich broth feeds human neurons, which grow across a silicon chip. That chip sends electrical impulses to and from the neurons to train them to exhibit desired behaviors. Using a similar system, Cortical Labs taught DishBrain (a predecessor to the CL1) to play the video game Pong.
> „The perfusion circuit component acts as a life support system for the cells – it has filtration for waste products, temperature control, gas mixing, and pumps to keep everything circulating.”
> Because the technology incorporates human neurons, some scientists have raised **ethical concerns** around the development of „synthetic biological intelligence“ like the CL1. Although DishBrain and CL1 are less complex than human brains, the technology has sparked debates around the nature of consciousness and the potential for future synthetic biological intelligence to experience suffering.
> „Right now, I think this is an **unfounded concern.** I think it would be a missed opportunity to not [be] able to use a system that has the promise to cure devastating brain diseases,“ Silvia Velasco, a stem cell researcher at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia.
> The CL1 units will retail for approximately **$35,000** each and will become widely available in **late 2025.**
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When the AI takes over and realizes it can harvest human brains to make efficient computers cheaper than growing them so it breeds us as cattle to expand processing power I’ll be really scared. Not because of the existential crisis of becoming cattle for an advanced being we will have created, but because the Wachowski’s called it 30 years ago, and the script they had got butchered to say they needed us for batteries because no one would understand.
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> A new type of computer that combines regular silicon-based hardware with human neurons is now available for purchase.
> Inside the CL1, a nutrient-rich broth feeds human neurons, which grow across a silicon chip. That chip sends electrical impulses to and from the neurons to train them to exhibit desired behaviors. Using a similar system, Cortical Labs taught DishBrain (a predecessor to the CL1) to play the video game Pong.
> „The perfusion circuit component acts as a life support system for the cells – it has filtration for waste products, temperature control, gas mixing, and pumps to keep everything circulating.”
> Because the technology incorporates human neurons, some scientists have raised **ethical concerns** around the development of „synthetic biological intelligence“ like the CL1. Although DishBrain and CL1 are less complex than human brains, the technology has sparked debates around the nature of consciousness and the potential for future synthetic biological intelligence to experience suffering.
> „Right now, I think this is an **unfounded concern.** I think it would be a missed opportunity to not [be] able to use a system that has the promise to cure devastating brain diseases,“ Silvia Velasco, a stem cell researcher at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia.
> The CL1 units will retail for approximately **$35,000** each and will become widely available in **late 2025.**
When the AI takes over and realizes it can harvest human brains to make efficient computers cheaper than growing them so it breeds us as cattle to expand processing power I’ll be really scared. Not because of the existential crisis of becoming cattle for an advanced being we will have created, but because the Wachowski’s called it 30 years ago, and the script they had got butchered to say they needed us for batteries because no one would understand.