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Wired article on using biological neural networks to control aircraft.
You know how every once in a while, you read an article that includes a sentence that clearly made the author's entire day?
"Somewhere in Florida, 25,000 disembodied rat neurons are thinking about flying an F-22."
Aside from that, it's not clear to me how this research differs from, say, research that's been going on for a couple of decades...except that in this case the networks are biological rather than artificial. But it's still interesting.
You know how every once in a while, you read an article that includes a sentence that clearly made the author's entire day?
"Somewhere in Florida, 25,000 disembodied rat neurons are thinking about flying an F-22."
Aside from that, it's not clear to me how this research differs from, say, research that's been going on for a couple of decades...except that in this case the networks are biological rather than artificial. But it's still interesting.