Cortical Labs creates first ''sentient'' lab-grown brain in a dish

[axiom]

Researchers have apparently grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play Pong: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63195653

[RobertZ]

“Next, Dr Kagan plans to test the impact alcohol has on the mini-brain's ability to play Pong.”

Lol. Pretty cool. 

[martins name]

Only a sliver of our brains is responsible for consciousnesses so it's probably not sentient. Nor is it any more intelligent than moden neural networks. If we however manage to grow consciousnesses like this we have no way of knowing what kind of experiences we create, could be torture. This has the same ethical status as factory farms. Satanic shit.

[Matt23]

On 10/12/2022 at 10:11 AM, axiom said:

Researchers have apparently grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play Pong: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63195653

Haha... I don't know why but I found that sentence very funny.  

Maybe since it's like a huge, major scientific breakthrough: "Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab", and then what they used it for was "play Pong" lol.  

I'm not saying it's not cray cray.  Just the wording was funny.