I am so proud to be an Australian technologist today.

I've never understood why they do this research with human neurons when any neurons would do.

Could this be the solution for AGI? Real (albeit lab-grown) human brain cells packaged as "chips"?

(We changed the URL from https://corticallabs.com/doom.html since it points to this)

Future robots will be powered by human brain cells. Companies will use them as conscious slaves and they'll get around slavery laws by saying they're not human.

Gives new meaning to "homo ludens"..

SCI-FI has always featured sentient AI, and now we might be heading toward actually synthesizing brains. This feels dystopian.

PS: It's still very cool but also scary.

Is there a reason they're using human brain cells specifically? This seems like it would also work with neurons from other creatures.

I was under the impression that the relative intelligence of humans versus other animals was largely a function of brain cell quantity, not quality. Can 200k human brain cells really learn faster than 200k mouse brain cells?

A more cynical take is that they're just using human brain cells for shock value. They chose DOOM because of the "can it run DOOM" meme, so they clearly value publicity a lot.

They built Warhammer 40k servitors