Source: Seeker.com, January 11, 2018
This robot has the digitized brain of a worm in it and it functions autonomously. Here’s what it means for the future of AI.
Worms are weird, primitive creatures that seem to just squirm around senselessly. However, this simplistic behavior is exactly what we are looking for in our endeavours to digitize a living brain.
Researchers recently managed to put a copy of the brain of a Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans into a robot. It is the digital brain of a worm on a computer chip in a lego robot.
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