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I am one of co-founders of this company. Many of the questions asked here are answered in our recent publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificia

I am one of co-founders of this company. Many of the questions asked here are answered in our recent publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1376042/full https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence... I will be happy to try to answer any other questions!

salmonfamine 2y ago
What does it feel like to be a real-life mad scientist?
humansareok1 2y ago
How confident are you that these brain organoids are incapable of qualia and thus suffering?
- Bluestein 2y ago
  Username relevant.- PS. Also, while congratulating the company, I also wanted to appreciate and second the question ...
  - finalspark 2y ago
    We have no information on this topic. Consider that at this time we have the number of neurons equivalent to a larva fly.
    - humansareok1 2y ago
      Flies have demonstrated signs of consciousness so if that's supposed to be reassuring, it's not.
      - gangorgasm 2y ago
        Compared to chips, where would flies be? 1 bit microcontroller level? Where our brain is tops of course (latest generation AMD or Intel)
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fallingfrog 2y ago
Is the total mass of the organoids in your system greater than the mass of a single human brain?
- actionfromafar 2y ago
  Envelope calculation: 1 brain worth of neurons would make 10 million instances available for hire, and at 500 USD per instance would give monthly recurring revenue (MRR) at 5 billion USD. Not too bad for a startup!
  - eddd-ddde 2y ago
    Honestly I see "rent your brain compute for money" as a real thing in the future.
    - actionfromafar 2y ago
      I live that life now. It's a bit demeaning at times, but it beats physical hard labour.
- finalspark 2y ago
  No, it is way less. Consider we have about 10'000 neurons per organoid while our brain has about 100 billion.
willcipriano 2y ago
What does a "Hello World" for something like this look like? Is it a API, do I push a docker image to it or something? How do you interact with this sort of system?
- finalspark 2y ago
  There a Python interface. The API enables to send stimulations, measure action potentials and deliver dopamine in real-time. There are 2 videos that explains this in more details on: https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/ https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/
  - willcipriano 2y ago
    ahh I didn't see the videos, thank you.

salmonfamine 2y ago

What does it feel like to be a real-life mad scientist?

humansareok1 2y ago

How confident are you that these brain organoids are incapable of qualia and thus suffering?

Bluestein 2y ago
Username relevant.- PS. Also, while congratulating the company, I also wanted to appreciate and second the question ...
- finalspark 2y ago
  We have no information on this topic. Consider that at this time we have the number of neurons equivalent to a larva fly.
  - humansareok1 2y ago
    Flies have demonstrated signs of consciousness so if that's supposed to be reassuring, it's not.
    - gangorgasm 2y ago
      Compared to chips, where would flies be? 1 bit microcontroller level? Where our brain is tops of course (latest generation AMD or Intel)

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fallingfrog 2y ago

Is the total mass of the organoids in your system greater than the mass of a single human brain?

actionfromafar 2y ago
Envelope calculation: 1 brain worth of neurons would make 10 million instances available for hire, and at 500 USD per instance would give monthly recurring revenue (MRR) at 5 billion USD. Not too bad for a startup!
- eddd-ddde 2y ago
  Honestly I see "rent your brain compute for money" as a real thing in the future.
  - actionfromafar 2y ago
    I live that life now. It's a bit demeaning at times, but it beats physical hard labour.
finalspark 2y ago
No, it is way less. Consider we have about 10'000 neurons per organoid while our brain has about 100 billion.

willcipriano 2y ago

What does a "Hello World" for something like this look like? Is it a API, do I push a docker image to it or something? How do you interact with this sort of system?

finalspark 2y ago
There a Python interface. The API enables to send stimulations, measure action potentials and deliver dopamine in real-time. There are 2 videos that explains this in more details on: https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/ https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/
- willcipriano 2y ago
  ahh I didn't see the videos, thank you.