Can play Quake 3!

http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~dbailey/pressrelease.html

I'm speechless...

Watch the 4th video, notice how it learned how to fire at the ground, not AT the bot. Awesome!

Heh, the first two videos are funny because when I first played JK the first thing I did was jump up and down and walk around in circles.

I guess I'm just dog-brained.

I could never be a dog.

"WHAT? It's your stick, yougo fetch it! God, if you wanted the stick that badly why did you throw it away in the first place?!"

Hehe.

That's incredible

But I'm still confused on how this functions. "The neurons analyze the data and send signals to the game controls" How?

It's fake: http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~dbailey/project1.html

Ah crap. Yeah I should have known better to trust that when I hadn't seen it on Digg or Slashdot or anything.

If something like this were ever to happen it'd probably be plastered on everything, you'd have heard about it everywhere. For that to happen... I mean, just damn, it'd be a fine day for neuroscience.

I think we'll be there in about three hundred years. Give or take a decade.

Well, if they did get it to work, it wasn't just the cells. They would have had to use some sort of program to use the cells. They would figure out all that on their own.

So where this much closer to Nuronic computers? wow is proud

It's a hoax.

[QUOTE=Lord Kuat]I think we'll be there in about three hundred years. Give or take a decade.[/QUOTE]

Wait, did you even read the link where it said it was fake? It was based on a similar (true) story about 25,000 neurons in a dish controlling a computerized flight simulator. So it's not actually far-fetched at all.

(I actually posted a thread about the flight simulator one, back in the day)

http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~dbailey/project1.html

What the link said:




Sho 'nuff.

The press is making a proverbial mountain out of a molehill, like usual.

"Hey, I read this press article on cold fusion, they said it's coming!"

"Hey, genetic therapy is almost here, look what the Times said!"

"Cloning, dude, we're so going to have backup organs now!"

"Stem cells? The wave of the future, dude. I was watching CNN last night, and..."

You see what I mean?

Also, think about what would be needed to understand such a phenomenon. We're far off, not nearly as close as the news articles would have you think.

You forgot invisibility

"We're gonna have invisibility cloaks in five years!"

"No, actually, in five years given enough funding we might have a semi-working prototype of a radio-wavelength invisibility shield."

Yeah I suppose you're right; they do often sensationalize things in order to write a good story. But the fact is still there that there were neurons in a dish, and they were controlling a flight simulator. So it's still not that unrealistic to think that they might be able to do the same thing with an FPS game.

Ah, true.

That, and I fell for the invisiblity one back in the day. Wasn't there like a video demonstration of it, or was that a hoax?

That was a different thing; and it wasn't a hoax, it was just stupid. It was basically just the guy had a video camera behind him or beside him or something and it was going to a projector that was out in front of him.

I have only one response to that:

Oh man, I feel sorry for some Q3 players now...

"Wow ur a nub! even dog nurons can ply betta then u!"

Maybe the scientist placed the tray on the table and watched the Q3 demo on tv.

"Wow..it's amazeing!"

EDIT: I just figured out it's someone trying to "clean his name" in the video game world.



Sound familiar?

Dammit, that pisses me off that its fake.

Agreed. I wanted to be able to tell someone that dog neurons could whip their *** at Q3