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just thought it would be nice to see them all together.
imma go throw up now.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1919082093998399897
CHINA BUILT A ROBOT WITH A HUMAN BRAIN
Chinese scientists grew a cerebral organoid — a mini brain made from human stem cells — and connected it to a robot.
Not just for show: the brainlet controls physical movement, dodges obstacles, grabs objects, and even shows signs of synaptic plasticity — meaning it can learn and adapt based on experience.
They embedded it into a brain-on-chip system, combining neural tissue with silicon circuitry — essentially a hybrid bio-digital processor.
This could revolutionize neuroscience, drug testing, and AI development.
But it also drags us straight into Blade Runner territory: machines that don’t simulate thought, but actually have it.
The ethical red flags are everywhere:
What counts as consciousness?
Where’s the line between tool and entity?
Are we growing minds to serve machines?
Cool? Yes.
Chilling? Also yes.
Source: FutureNowShow
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🚨🇨🇳 CHINA BUILDS A CITY FOR AI—IT’S ALREADY HAS WITH 400 STARTUPS
Shanghai basically made a whole neighborhood just for AI, and now 400 startups have moved in like it’s the Silicon Valley of the future.
They’ve got everything: robot brains, self-driving tech, even an “AI x.com/MarioNawfal/st…
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published in 2013 (8 technology generations ago….)
https://markalpert.com/books/extinction/about-book.php
Extinction by Mark Alpert
Jim Pierce, a soldier-turned-scientist, hasn't heard from his daughter Layla in years, not since she rejected his military past and started working as a hacker. But when a Chinese assassin shows up at Jim's lab looking for her, he knows that she's cracked a very serious military secret. Now her life is on the line if he doesn't find her first.
The secret is a Chinese government project called Supreme Harmony. In an effort to silence dissent, China's Ministry of State Security has developed a new surveillance system that uses swarms of cyborg insects — ordinary houseflies equipped with minuscule cameras and radio controls — to spy on dissident groups. [Real-life scientists are developing this technology for military reconnaissance.] To analyze the glut of video collected by the swarms, Chinese researchers lobotomize a group of condemned prisoners and insert electronic implants into their brains, turning them into a network of zombie-like "Modules" who are wirelessly linked to one another and to the swarms. But the project goes disastrously awry when the network develops its own intelligence, a collective consciousness that takes control of the Modules.
''Acting covertly at first, the newly conscious network sets out to exterminate the human race by lobotomizing dozens of scientists and soldiers and incorporating them into Supreme Harmony.'' The Modules infiltrate the Chinese government and go to America as well. As Jim Pierce searches for his daughter, he realizes that he's up against something that isn't just a threat to her life, but to human life everywhere.
Luckily, Jim can fight the man-machine network because he's part-machine himself. Maimed by a terrorist bombing, Pierce wears an ultra-advanced prosthetic arm with impervious polyimide skin and high-torque motors that can punch through walls. With the help of Kirsten Chan, a brilliant and beautiful NSA intelligence agent, Jim goes to China and begins a desperate 1,500-mile journey to the laboratory where Supreme Harmony was born. To save humanity, Jim must fight the network on the ultimate battlefield — the virtual world of his own mind.
All the technologies described in Extinction are real. [The novel's author is a contributing editor at Scientific American, which has reported on the ''recent advances in brain-machine interfaces.] In one form or another, our machines will eventually replace us. ''Extinction tells the story of how it could happen tomorrow.