As grim as it sounds, this is probably just a grift. It sounds like they're using stem cells as wires, and they'll die eventually. There's some ai word salad in the article too.

They should use the neurons of the tech oligarchs if they’re so smart.

I was there. They let me take a picture of the tech.

Uh oh

Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.

Behold, the incredibly efficient human. It eats garbage, live about 80 years, adapts to any fucking environment….

Yea but it’s just not expensive enough.

Dear humanity,

Consider maybe not.

Thanks,
-A Human

Anyone else read this:

Brain cells at work Traditional data centers rely on silicon processors and general-purpose Central Processing Units (CPUs). They typically use standard air cooling to handle cloud computing, web hosting, and database storage workloads.

Biological computing, in contrast, uses wetware to process data. This consists of living neurons grown from stem cells. The neurons are connected to computing hardware via microelectrode arrays. These let electrical signals pass between the biological cells and digital systems.

And wonder what they were trying to say or why they said it this way?

Here is the part in question:

They typically use standard air cooling to handle cloud computing, web hosting, and database storage workloads.

Biological computing, in contrast, uses wetware to process data.

Ok, AND? What does air cooling have to do with anything? Is wetware NON standard air cooling?

Either way, isnt this the section where you say Traditional Data Centers rely on electricity, and these rely on X, Y or Z? Nutrient baths? Sump pumps?

This research will be funding Chairs at university Ethics departments for decades to come.

New grift just dropped

yo hold up, wetware is an actual thing? Since fucking when?

I'm sure "mn" means "mamoneters."

(the correct abbreviation is MM, a la Roman numeral M for 1000. Mil Mil, or, 1000x1000.)

I'm sure people will approach this news story in a sane and well-reasoned manner.

Came here looking for a comment referencing Neelix cheese... And I'm disappointed. I expected more from y'all. Where's my niche Star Trek Voyager reference?

In the grimdark present of humanity...

Yay, torment nexus, and if it isn't yet, it will be soon.

Oh so they are aiming for that evangelion shit . Cool cool cool Cool cool cool Cool cool cool

One day, we will look back to the time when people were allowed to die with tired unblinking eyes.

This was signed off by an ethics review board...

Don't be fooled. They are illithids in disguise.

Cool. I wonder what the maintenance looks like for those, and programming.

16 mano-neters?

So deeply unethical it’s unreal.

they will soon to use real human brains eventually.

Every day we inch closer to a line the universe will retaliate against us for crossing.

harnessing brainlike organoids

that sounds dangerously close to being a human

hooks it up to speakers

"ahhhAAAaahAhhh"

scientists: "hmm something must be bugged, let me fiddle with it some more"

It's ironic because no one can prove that our universe and existence there-in is not an identical hellscape used to power the ai of some larger more superior form of sentience.

first hello world will be ‘kill me’ for this poor thing

Looks like "mars express" is becoming real.

The only argument I have to support this is that they only live 30 days and arent developed enough for consciousness. But thats pretty weak considering they will obviously get better and cross the line thats acceptable. So yeah lets not go down this line of research.

Aww yeah, screaming datacenter timeline unlocked.

I reject the notion of calling this a data center. A single rack with 20 little pods is not a data center.

They just want to be a data center, because data centers are currently on investor minds.

So how many neurons would it take to consider forcing Windows Server to run on the wetware a crime against humanity?

What happens when they grow a brain that has paranoid delusions and wants to destroy us all? What happens when there's a shortage? Can people sell their loved ones to data centers for a high premium, rather than a burial or cremation?