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- Tophillious, on 08/14/2008, -0/+48The future is gonna kickass. That is, if were not enslaved by robots.
- sparechange, on 08/14/2008, -4/+42The implications of this are both fascinating and very, very scary.
- billbugger, on 08/14/2008, -0/+36Self aware in 2012
- j3ff86, on 08/14/2008, -0/+24When does the version with biological lady parts come out?
- ledmonkey, on 08/14/2008, -0/+22They are trying to make the robot "remember" places it's been so they can observe how memories form within neurons. Could turn out to be some pretty impressive research.
- kingmanic, on 08/14/2008, -0/+19I look forward to buying a replicant to do my laundry.
- j3ff86, on 08/14/2008, -0/+18Tread softly because you tread on my dreams =(
- Sonan, on 08/14/2008, -1/+18It's hard to figure out from the article exactly how the cultured neurons control the robot. It says the robot's sensors will detect an obstacle and then feed some kind of input to the neurons, which then provide some kind of output signal that is sent to motors which turn the robot left or right. So the neurons sound more like a simple relay circuit than a brain to me. I mean, it's not like they somehow taught the brain to avoid objects, right? Right?
- astronomical, on 08/14/2008, -1/+17What's up with digg right now. I just read 6 crazy brain related articles along with an alien article and a Bigfoot article. And I didn't even see an Obama article, WTF!
- scojac, on 08/14/2008, -0/+14Are you John Connor?
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -1/+14When you get a real girlfriend.
As you may have guessed, Neither will happen. - Innisskillin, on 08/14/2008, -0/+12Can a robot get drunk if had a biological brain?
- ignisatra, on 08/14/2008, -0/+11What if we're all robots with neuron brains?
- BoneheadFarker, on 08/14/2008, -0/+9It technically is a simple relay circuit, but it's using nuerons and brain-matter to do it rather then metals and semi-conductors. This opens up a lot of possibility in both robotics and nuerological research.
- ExRe, on 08/14/2008, -1/+10Bah, tell me when they successfully implant a human brain onto a robotic body.
Then I'll need some cash to get one... - simg, on 08/14/2008, -0/+8real robots could make terminators look like the tooth fairy.
imagine something powered by a 1000cc motorcycle engine, high powered pnuematics for limbs and dual lawn mowers as weapons with a selectively bred and highly trained rat brain in control. - inactive, on 08/14/2008, -1/+8My dreams of having a robotic body just got a little closer
- PleaseJustDie, on 08/14/2008, -1/+8I would only implant my brain into a robot body if I could be an Adrian Barbobot with the strength of 10 gorillas.
- Flame15, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7No, for his dog.
- IPublius, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6I give it two weeks before this robot is featured in an article on Cracked.com
- gametavern, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6well, at least we'll know it's weak point when we go to war with it.
- tastynuggets, on 08/14/2008, -1/+7Where's my flying car?
- LeviTheSmith, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6For what ever reason I actually got a chill down my back when I read "The robot has no additional control from a human or a computer, its sole means of control is from its own brain"
- richmondphotog, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6what i gathered was that they (the brain and robot) communicated through bluetooth. and the brain taught itself. and they have multiple "brains" with different personalities. they all use the same robot though.
- Vegiemaster, on 08/14/2008, -1/+7There go my nipples again!
- VictoryGin, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6It will just learn how to avoid it.
- BeefBaron, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6Don't be scared, you wont be completely redundant for a while yet, my Human friend.
- jnordb, on 08/14/2008, -0/+6I always tell my wife by the time we're old, we'll be able to have our brains implanted in robot bodies so we can live forever.....FOREVER!!! Then world domination will be MINE!!!!!!!
- P1um, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5I for one welcome our new robot overlo-
forget it - VictoryGin, on 08/14/2008, -1/+6Actually you'll only have the strength of 5 gorillas, and you can only be 5 feet tall. But you will have x-ray eyes, and maybe chainsaws for arms. BZZZZZZZZZZ!!!
- ctpmn, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5I think you mean FTW not WTF
- MostlyHarmless, on 08/15/2008, -0/+51. I don't think this is likely going to tell us much about how the mammalian brain lays down & retrieves memories. There is a huge reward/punishment component that's extremely important in learning which just isn't found in this simplified system (e.g., no striatum, no dopaminergic projections, no consequences for not achieving a goal, like death if you don't eat, etc). That doesn't make this any less interesting, necessarily. Imagine if the scientists are able to significantly and reproducibly show statistical learning is taking place w/ the simple system (several hundred thousand neurons) used here - this could have a great deal of impact for how we approach silicon implementations of neural algorithms. However, my intuition is that this isn't the ideal system for studying human memory, learning, or neural function.
2. It is not at all ignorant to consider this scary. Just because the MEA used has only 60 in/outputs now doesn't mean there won't be one with orders of magnitude more in the near future. It's actually not unlikely that in the next 3-5 years, there will be MEAs available with thousands upon thousands of in/output electrodes (or maybe MEA/tetrode hybrid technology). Now, if we can figure out what the signals at those electrodes mean and how to properly give feedback (which I think we will), this could potentially become scary very quickly. But, as I said before, we've got to consider the importance of reward to behavior that this setup is not achieving. - inactive, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5no you need it the other way around!
- Sumtin2Say, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5Sounds like someone is planning ahead. Trying to bypass having to insert quarters for a good time?
- wonderbriefs, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Ah, Sealab. How we miss you.
- stix213, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4So you can create roboticly controlled 16 year old sex slaves?
- phibit, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4This is awesome. Kind of like those guys who used parts of a rat brain to fly a flight simulator a while back. Anyone know how many neurons were in the "brain"?
- jehan60188, on 08/14/2008, -6/+10holy *****!
i for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords... - wonderbriefs, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Sounds totally plausible to me.
- Sumtin2Say, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4I suppose being cyborgs will help even up the score in our war against the robots.
- TINZUSA, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4If the robot's brain is self-aware and biological, is is not alive and thus a slave? How many neurons are needed to respond to stimuli for us to have empathy for it?
- FredFredrickson, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4I for one... oh, forget it.
- stix213, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Its as much a slave as a rat in a cage.
- Blandyman, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4Yeah, until it learns that you want to destroy it and adapts to kill you in your sleep.
... nevermind, that's STILL AWESOME! - Tolzmaniac, on 08/14/2008, -0/+4That's deep, man.
- inactive, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3but can it run crysis?
- stix213, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3It'll be #1 in a list that goes something like "7 reasons robots may conquer humanity"
- Locnar, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Paging John Conner..
- Belin, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3FTA "These robots are developed at the Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group, part of the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading."
They're building more than one of them. Won't that eventually mean a battle for supremacy over the human race? - astronomical, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3For yourself?
I guess this would be a good time to ask, who knows how long human brain naturally "live In other words, how long could you live assuming everything but your brain keeps working? -
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