Lab-Grown Brain Learns Pong - Is This Biological Neural Network 'Sentient'? #shorts

A leading neuroscientist claims that a pong-playing clump of about a million neurons is "sentient". What does that mean? Why did they teach a lab-grown brain to play pong? To study biological self-organization at the root of life, intelligence, and consciousness. And, according to their website, "to see what happens."

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[honkhonk]

If they ever make this shit available to hobbyists, your gonna have people making straight up cyborgs bruh. They needa legalize this

[Yttiwgnihtemos]

The ethics of this are somewhat worrying.

[DGz]

Fuck man. That's interesting and disturbing.

[sethshelver]

@thethoughtemporium is teach brain cells to play doom, this compared to that is like chess and checkers

[jeffhill]

And there was the line and yep, we just stepped over it. We gotta be careful to not think of ourselves as God…if a large portion of humanity thinks of itself that way, I have a feeling our creator is gonna let us know we are flying too close to the equator

[andrewmartinez]

So if it's sentient, does that make it a human? Or is it a second brain? And if it's a second brain does it make it a digital clone of a person? Does it have the same rights as I do?

[Jake-ctkt]

“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension” - Nikola Tesla

[hikolanikola]

Imagine waking up to a never ending game of pong.

[tuckersabath]

do us all favor and make more videos, please.