Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.
That’s a pretty misleading headline. The news article is about a cool art installation, in which an artist has used a deceased composer’s DNA to produce electrical signals that are interpreted as music. Still cool, but it’s not “composing music” in the same sense as the alive musician was composing music.
I hope to all holy fuck it’s not conscious.
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
according to the article it’s a tiny smattering of brain cells grown from stem cells derived from his blood, which he donated before he died specifically for this experiment. it is in no way conscious.
We’ll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.
Shhhh! Don’t interrupt him, he’s decomposing.
The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.
Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.
This sounds like chatGPT with extra steps and body horror.
I genuinely thought this was an Onion headline.
Storm of lying clickbait titles today.
My Ashley O. doll is starting to glitch out a little. Should I be worried?
What could go wrong? /s * anguished screaming SFX *
Has anyone seen the show “Pantheon“? This is getting close to it.
