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by: pete...@gmail.com - Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:44 UTC

Cultured neurons in a petri dish have been trained to play Pong.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/world/brain-cells-pong-intl-scli-scn/index.html

What Could Go Wrong?

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by: Dimensional Traveler - Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:57 UTC

On 10/13/2022 6:44 AM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
> Cultured neurons in a petri dish have been trained to play Pong.
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/world/brain-cells-pong-intl-scli-scn/index.html
>
> What Could Go Wrong?
>
Someone makes an Adam Sandler movie called 'Pixels'?

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by: Paul S Person - Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:10 UTC

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:57:16 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
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>On 10/13/2022 6:44 AM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Cultured neurons in a petri dish have been trained to play Pong.
>>
>> https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/world/brain-cells-pong-intl-scli-scn/index.html
>>
>> What Could Go Wrong?
>>
>Someone makes an Adam Sandler movie called 'Pixels'?

I seem to recall seeing that.

And I seem to recall regretting it immediately afterwards.
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by: ted@loft.tnolan.com - Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:11 UTC

In article <ke2jkhhne8bvtc6coil882bf8iipjnqogp@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:57:16 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>On 10/13/2022 6:44 AM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Cultured neurons in a petri dish have been trained to play Pong.
>>>
>>>
>https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/world/brain-cells-pong-intl-scli-scn/index.html
>>>
>>> What Could Go Wrong?
>>>
>>Someone makes an Adam Sandler movie called 'Pixels'?
>
>I seem to recall seeing that.
>
>And I seem to recall regretting it immediately afterwards.

It wasn't awful, but it certainly wasn't great.

Arguably Futurama did it better on one of their anthology episodes.
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OT: Another SF trope IRL: The brain in a jar.	pete...@gmail.com
Re: OT: Another SF trope IRL: The brain in a jar.	Dimensional Traveler
Re: OT: Another SF trope IRL: The brain in a jar.	Paul S Person
Re: OT: Another SF trope IRL: The brain in a jar.	ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan