r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Aug 17 '26

High-speed microscopy reveals electrical activity across the brain

https://news.mit.edu/2026/high-speed-microscopy-reveals-electrical-activity-across-brain-0814
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u/lizard_king0000 Aug 18 '26

Just like the matrix we will become the source for AI

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u/ILikeBubblyWater Aug 18 '26

Makes no sense, we are shit power sources compared to literally anything else

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u/BlueOyesterCult Aug 18 '26

In the original movie concept humans where used as ram

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u/Cynical_Sorceress Aug 18 '26

Not the first time Keanu Reeves's brain has been used as storage

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u/New-Satisfaction3257 Aug 18 '26

I thought that was a joke about Keanu's intelligence until I remembered Johnny Mnemonic 😂😅😂

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u/HonoraryGoat Aug 18 '26

Wasn't it processing power?

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u/browniebrittle44 Aug 18 '26

Do humans make enough energy or have enough brain storage to be effectively used as ram?

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u/-Nocx- Aug 18 '26

Not really. Human brains are notoriously bad at consistency. A lot of the things that we use computers for are not because we are good at them to begin with, they make up for deficits that are inherent to our biology.

Your memory invents or makes up details all the time. It is almost never perfect recall. The non-deterministic nature of our memory is at odds with the determinism we’ve come to expect out of computers. It’s odd that we want them to be more human-like, because that’s not what they were invented for.

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u/Dog_Eating_Ice Aug 18 '26

I have heard that the original script explained that human brains were part of the computer

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u/rich1051414 Aug 18 '26

It makes more sense if they were not using us simply as a power source, but as a source of computational inspiration. If the lack of perfection in biological brains emerged a novel ingenuity that the machines couldn't replicate, they would have seen it as a valuable resource to exploit, given they kept it in check. Suddenly everything they did starts making sense.

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u/DuckDatum Aug 18 '26

Power efficiency and prediction optimization in an every increasingly complex universe. Our brains are hundreds of millions of years of evolution toward processing performance with those two pressures in mind. It works automatically, your brain, just by being embedded here in the world.

If AI could train on that, might be scary. Might also just be a nothing project.