This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295

I'm a little worried about how we're gonna tell people we're fusing neurons with computers. The world's first biological data center, when they competed against their reinforcement learning systems, the neurons we had were 5,000 times more staple efficient. Has anyone complained that you're um tinkering a bit with the edges of humanity? The Vatican were worried about this. You do not want to create conscious systems because ethically, a conscious system has the ability to suffer, and we do not want any suffering to come about from any technology.

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