Holy Flying Rat Brains
Somewhere in Florida, 25,000 disembodied rat neurons are thinking about flying an F-22. These neurons are growing on top of a multi-electrode array and form a living "brain" that's hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. When information on the simulated aircraft's horizontal and vertical movements are fed into the brain by stimulating the electrodes, the neurons fire away in patterns that are then used to control its "body" -- the simulated aircraft.I expect that organic computers are going to be a big deal in a few years. It seems much more plausible to me that the first artificial intelligences will use neurons, rather than silicon. Interesting stuff anyway.
posted by Dave Justus | 10/25/2004 07:36:00 AM
1 Comments:
i and facinated by this article, i did not even know it was possible, until i read the articl.
they are using rat brains to guy a flight simulator.
What if they were able to simulate the inputs of a regual bird's body, and then use bird brains to fly.
Would our planes be able to handle the things they brids would try to do?
Think about the when the brains wanted to poop, we would have to make the fly over Iraq or somthing.
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