on todays episode of what the actual fuck...

[viss@mastodon.social]

on todays episode of what the actual fuck...

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

New Scientist (www.newscientist.com)

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

@Viss dafuq

[wolfinpdx@pdx.social]

@Viss Maybe _this_ is actually how we get Skynet. ‍

[mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza]

@Viss Seems like the cells "learned to play doom" in a "barely better than random inputs" sort of way.

[x41h@infosec.exchange]

@Viss I love the summary...

"Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications"

Then shows image of Doom shooting the hell out of everything in sight. Super useful.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@Viss
Don't show this to Hegseth.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@FritzAdalis oh man if he could read he'd get so upset

[viss@mastodon.social]

also the screenshot they used is very much not actually doom. they very obviously got an ai to generate a screenshot of doom, which is stupid, because a quadrillion of them exist everywhere, and it failed miserably. look at the picture for five seconds and try not to wince

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Why tho?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@jackryder

.... ssssssssssssscience?

[lightfighter@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Doom really will run on anything

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@Viss riiiiiight

Sciiience.

[sus@timeloop.cafe]

@Viss i don't love that learning to pretend to shoot people is the metric for "a step closer to useful applications"

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Viss Not to speak this into existence, but given existing organoid research, I'm kind of surprised the Worst People You Know haven't picked this up and run with it yet.

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@Viss Like, why use a kajillion GPUs when you can just grow a brain in a vat and make it delete your emails?

[trashpanda@m.alittlenook.net]

@Viss I don't think it is! Or if it is AI generated, it was done by the company not New Scientist.

https://youtu.be/yRV8fSw6HaE This is the original source that article is based on.

Just before the 30 second mark. You can see where they screenshotted.

[jackyan@mastodon.social]

@Viss That is the genesis of every #BlackMirror episode right there.

[aut@hachyderm.io]

@Viss The brain cells yearn for the doom

[viss@mastodon.social]

@Aut they do!

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@Viss @foone !!