World-first biological data center uses 16 million living human neurons to process data

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/world-first-biological-data-center

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MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 27d

Torment Nexus (or it will be as they scale up).

Serious ethical guidelines and research into pain etc., should be required, but capitalism.

AviAdi@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 27d

Ah a small step for man, a giant leap for our matrix overlords!

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 27d (27 replies)

Soon.

acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 27d (26 replies)

the matrix plot would have made much more sense if they were using humans as bio CPUs rather than batteries… which they have to feed with food (energy).

lime@feddit.nu · 27 pts · 27d (4 replies)

that was the original script :(

deltapi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d (3 replies)

The one they stole? Edit: I was recalling incorrect reporting from a decade past. More detail in the following thread.

lime@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 27d

oh? haven't heard this one

Edit: op didn't deliver, i looked it up. what a loon.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/strange-story-of-woman-who-successfully-sued-matrix-directors-plagiarism/

dawcas@scribe.disroot.org · 5 pts · 26d (1 reply)

deltapi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 26d

Admittedly my recollection was vague. Here's the first link I found that is telling the story.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/strange-story-of-woman-who-successfully-sued-matrix-directors-plagiarism/ Seems like there was reporting about a decade ago that the claimant was successful in her plagiarism lawsuit when she really wasn't.
https://thingsthatkeepmeupatnight.substack.com/p/the-mother-of-the-matrix-and-the This goes more in depth to her claim and serves to underscore just how tenuous the claims of plagiarism/similarity are.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 27d

they were originally suppose to make them about cpu, but the directors assumed audiences wouldnt understand the references, it doesnt make sense since the robots can use nuclear power, geothermal energy, and wind.

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 27d (19 replies)

Thank you, that was my point in a convoluted way. We use so little of our brain power I wonder if we are already hooked up to a matrix and the "unused" is actually in use?

Like the machine figured out how much to let us use to keep us viable and not lose the "crop"?

username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 27d (10 replies)

We use all our brainpower.

DokPsy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 27d

That is very sad based on many people I've met

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 27d (3 replies)

Usually not all at once, because that’s called a stroke seizure

Edit: was wrong, sorry

username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 27d (2 replies)

Stroke is when the brain areas die because of lack of the bloodflow. Or is there some other "stroke"?

5too@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d

Seizure, maybe?

Natanael@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 26d

Epilepsy

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 27d (4 replies)

Exactly what the Matrix would tell us.

ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 26d (3 replies)
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TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 26d (2 replies)

Because as my tag for you articulates I have to deal w/ dummies like you.

ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 26d

Oh no, I've been tagged! Wait, I couldn't care less.

Still pretending to have a point? Sad

terabyterex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 27d (6 replies)

please tell me you dont believe the hollywood 10% brain use thing. we use all of our brain.

Natanael@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 26d

All neurons does something, not every neuron frequently contributes. Having unused neurons is literally why it's easy for us to learn things

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 27d (4 replies)

You believe the Matrix.

acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d (3 replies)

if you don't limit your beliefs to what is supported by empirical evidence then do you believe literally everything?

TIEPilot@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 27d (2 replies)

So you believe what they feed you, fair enough. I have critical thinking on my side, you have follow the herd. No worries, keep on that track.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 26d

Are you serious lmao

acosmichippo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 25d

I have critical thinking on my side

Then let's hear the evidence for your position.

unitedwithme@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 27d

Yes, This "Real World" is just the VM. The bare metal image is running "Zion_0.6.0.iso"

wuffah@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 27d (4 replies)

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 27d (2 replies)

Keep away from cheese

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 27d (1 reply)

But what about Porthos?

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 25d

Or petrol

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 27d

or the enterprise episode where the repair station AI used alien brains it kidnapped to increase its CPU power, permanently damaging the brains of the ones that stayed there the longest.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 26d

Mechanicus: heavy breathing

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 27d

I wouldn't get too exited, it appears to run on baloney.

Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 27d (1 reply)

Needs to be called Magi (Neon Genesis Evangelion reference)

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 27d

There are too many units, to be Magi it needs to be three. (Magi was a reference of three wise men of the bible or three magi)

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 27d (1 reply)

Bio-neural circuitry?

SaltSong@startrek.website · 6 pts · 27d

Keep all cheese out of the facility.

osanna@lemmy.vg · 5 pts · 27d
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9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d

The Christians are going to love this one

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 26d

Does that mean there are 5375 "data centers" in my head right now?

Where are the stats about storage, processing power, etc?

Clickbait bullshit.

https://www.brain-zone.net/learn/research/facts/neurons-in-human-brain