Okay, I was reading the article when the Dr. Who theme song popped up on my iPod. Coincidence, or warning from the future? Forget Cylons, I'm looking out for Daleks and Cybermen.
You say that like their haven't been thousands of robots alreadyArgtee said:Robots already?
Hmm, well, let's just hope that a company called "Skynet" doesn't try and make robots...
Still, it's pretty cool.
Well, the only robot that I remember hearing about is this one and it fell down the stairs...Dexiro said:You say that like their haven't been thousands of robots alreadyArgtee said:Robots already?
Hmm, well, let's just hope that a company called "Skynet" doesn't try and make robots...
Still, it's pretty cool.![]()
How exactly is it dangerous, this isnt exactly skynet and machines actually deciding to kill humans is purely a sci-fi trope.TriggerUnhappy said:Why is it that scientists are obsessed with crazy shit like this?
They're like that little kid that just sits and pokes a dog, to see how many times they can do it before getting their hand bit off.
An exaggeration obviously, but am I the only one at least slightly frightened by stuff like this? Yes, it's very advanced and interesting, but the potential for disaster is huge.
I may be wrong here but I don't think among animals that each specific neuron is that different. To put it simply, it is the number and the way the neurons that are organized in more advanced animals such as dolphins humans and apes that makes the difference. I could be wrong here. I just read random online articles and lay person books so what I'm saying could be completely wrong. (Edit: oops too dumbed down after skimming wikipedia about neurons. There are very specialties neurons for specific things but I think overall using rat neurons isn't that much different than using a neurons from other animals. Because even though brain cells have various specalities, I think motor cells among different animals probably don't differ that much from each other.kouriichi said:huh. thats...... strange..... youd think they would use cat or dog brain cells.
or dolphin!! those are really smart.
Um, bees, ants and other animals have pretty advanced large groups working together. Some amount of learning I think is necessary to have bee hives function and stuff. I'm not exactly sure though...Dana22 said:There is a long road from Brain Cells to a Brain.
Insects have "brains", can they learn ?