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[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article:

...researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment

that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

In a couple years, they'll be able to make Trump voters.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Some amphibians have less than two million.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

And they are ceos!

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

The amount isn't necessarily an indicator of intelligence, the nunber of connections is very important too

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