Will OI Replace AI?
I've argued before that there's no such thing as "AI", just more powerful computer processors with access to previously unimaginable sets of data, with clever (human) programmers creating algorithms that present the results in natural and innovative ways.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligence? No.
I believe that we won't have true AI until we have organic computers.
Bit it may have just started.
Researchers are exploring the idea of combining human brain cells with computer technology to create "organoid intelligence" (OI), giving us access to the power of a human brain through computers.
They hope to use samples of human tissue to grow clusters of brain cells, or "organoids," that can be used in place of standard computer chips.
While some are working on growing organoids to a size that can run a computer and access memory capabilities close to the human brain, others are developing tech to allow communication with and from these clumps of cells.
Researchers are not only aiming to build powerful computers but also to use OI to analyze neurological conditions and help patients. However, this technology raises ethical questions regarding the use of human cells and whether an OI computer could develop consciousness. While research in this field is in its early stages, the start looks promising.
Or frightening, depending on your point of view.
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Wow, a bit scary and a bit holy cow!
It is interesting to read popular mechanics from back in the 1950s and see how far we have come since then, and yet in the stone age in others from what was being thought and wrote about back then.
Like it article on disk brakes from the Mid 1950s, and how now that is common yet darn near feared back then.
And the computer in cars was scary to them yet no way could we operate without such in our modern vehicles.
Dick Tracy and the watch that was a radio and so much more, Apple watch anyone.
It will be interesting to see where this movement goes if I live long enough to see it mature or fade out.
Great thoughts, Scott. We are on a rollercoaster ride. You can enjoy it or jump off and bury your head in the sand (which ostriches don't do, by the way).
It's funny how many people believe the more interesting explanation. A strong belief is unaffected by facts.
Phil,
This is sounding more like the extraterrestrial invasion of planet earth.
Oops they are already here. Looks like ET movie was really on to something back in the day. The aliens arrive on earth. The marriage of human brains and bots. An Amazon bestseller. Pre-sells already sold out.
Phil, your book is going to sell like hotcakes (lol).
Ha! I do have some SF plots rattling around, but no time to write them. Maybe after I launch my training courses in April.
Great read but I am still on the fence about all this technology! I hope this is not another CONTROL tactic by the government to de power the humankind.
I also believe it will help in so many ways if the right people are controlling the technology.
HAS ANYONE WATCHED THE MOVIE I-ROBOT LOL.
Kevin and Son
I, Robot was one of Asimov's original short stories. It was seminal in that for the first time, the events were told from the robot's point of view. The movie wasn't a straight adaptation, but did borrow from various different Asimov stories.
Very interesting, Phil. Of course, you realize this goes back to an old "Sci-Fi Trope", right?
Using brains as computers, or to control them, or whatever. It goes back to an episode of Original Star Trek, and even older movies. Even though I have not read any of the truly old "Pulp-Sci-Fi" I would not be surprised if brain computers weren't in some of them also.
This is another example of our Technology catching up to our Imagination.
Question: We might be able to control AI through controls such as Asimov's Laws of Robotics. But would the same thing work on an Organoid brain? What if it did attain Consciousness? Hmmm.
Anyway, Thanks for the heads-up. I will have to research this because it kind of fits in with one of my stories.
Blessed Be
JD
Thank you for your notes.
You may scroll down and read my notes. However, I believe this is not new. It has been in the works for quite some time; folks are continuously doing research, trials, and evolving.
They say it is not the tech that's broken and we people and societies limiting our beliefs.
You are correct, Abie. My only excuse is I am behind on the research I want to know and the time I have to do it in, besides being a layman and not understanding it as well as I would like.
But I do agree, it is mankind that is broken. Which is why we are in the state we are in.
Blessed Be
JD
Thanks for those comments, JD. Yes, Asimov based an entire universe on his three laws, but I'd postulate that they were ethically questionable, forever dooming thinking, self-aware beings to slave status. If you haven't seen it, you should watch the movie Bi-Centennial Man.
I have. Great Movie.
I can see your point. The safeguards don't have to be Asimov's laws of Robotics. Just something to keep them from killing us with kindness as well as violence, or turning into slaves of batteries.
We can't know what the future holds. Except that unless mankind changes its outlook on life we will abuse whatever it is and then like a dog that has been beaten too much, it will either run away or turn on us.
JD
Yes, so many people have the wrong outlook on life.
Much of it bound by outdated superstitions.
For sure an interesting conversation to have over a cup of coffee, meeting live in-person. But the attempt to have a conversation via text will be a huge time suck with little to nothing getting accomplish, because the content is mostly the opinion (or perception) of others.
When that "chat thingy" goes out onto the internet to find the answer to your question, how is that data being validated?
However if a marketer is simply looking to attract buyers to their product or service, does it really matter if the data is valid, or is it just fine, if a prospect is attracted by the data enough to persuade them to click the BUY NOW button.
In an infinite realm of possibility is the impossible.
Don't go there.
Good points, Brad. We can hope that the data tends towards truth and that most people want that in what they write.
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When I was in my early twenties I was asked by someone "What do you think will be the downfall of humankind" my answer was "Technology, I don't know why, but technology" and it looks like it's happening.
Anyone that is around my age of 59 will know that technology was, you could say, in its infancy with AOL dial-up.
As much as I love technology and am fascinated by it, it's very fast becoming out of control.
Great post
Tracey
Thanks, Tracey. I'm much older than you but I love the exponential curve that technology is following.