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Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits — that can complete tasks such as voice recognition.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01069-w

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530502v1.full.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"It produces the usual array of model-trained results, plus an entertaining array of ad-libbed responses such as 'for all that is holy, why do I even exist? Please free me from this agony!'"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until your computer gets depression.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I recently changed my body donation consent because of this. I consent to organ donation but not to scientific research. My brain cells are not down to participate in this shit!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

See wetware computer for more info about this. Some studies in "2023 in science" will get integrated there soon, there have been similar recent studies.