Rat Brains fly Planes

[mmilano]

Interesting story:

a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html

 

[rfbdorf]

Wow! Just a neural net, although a pretty large one. Wonder how they train the net? 20-30 years from now, bet we'll see this kind of thing in PCs.
- Richard

 

[Pilawt]

Oh. Whew. From the title I thought this was another political thread.

-- Pilawt

 

[Bill]

Skynet went online August 4, 1997, and became self aware at 2:14am, August 29, 1997. We know the rest of the story.

 

[Henning]

Wow! Just a neural net, although a pretty large one. Wonder how they train the net? 20-30 years from now, bet we'll see this kind of thing in PCs.
- Richard

I bet we see it in spinal chord injury work before then.

 

[Dave Krall CFII]

What's the big deal ? Chimps have been flying aircraft for ages.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Skynet went online August 4, 1997, and became self aware at 2:14am, August 29, 1997. We know the rest of the story.

Yes!!! Am I the only one who rented T2 on 8-29-97 just for the heck of it?