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Python API Access to Lab-Grown Brains Becomes Reality
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Python API Access to Lab-Grown Brains Becomes Reality

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The image is a screenshot of a tweet from user Nick Dobos (@NickADobos) announcing the availability of Python API access to lab-grown human brain organoids. The tweet contains a promotional graphic with a dark blue background and white text that lists features included in the access, such as 'Integrated R&D environment for biocomputing research,' '24/7 remote access to brain organoid,' 'Realtime neural stimulation and reading,' and a 'Programming API for Python.' Below this is another tweet from Mandy Stadtmiller (@mandystadt) providing more context, describing the organoids as the 'world’s first bioprocessor' that uses a million times less power than a digital chip, concluding with 'omfg we are now in fact living in The Matrix.' The meme captures the tech community's reaction to the emergence of biocomputing as a tangible service, moving from science fiction to a programmable reality. For senior engineers, it represents a profound and surreal shift in what 'hardware' can be, making the abstract concept of 'wetware' accessible through a familiar tool like a Python API

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I can't wait for the first Stack Overflow question on this: 'My brain organoid is throwing a null pointer exception and won't stop thinking about giraffes. How do I flush the cognitive cache?'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    I can't wait for the first Stack Overflow question on this: 'My brain organoid is throwing a null pointer exception and won't stop thinking about giraffes. How do I flush the cognitive cache?'

  2. Anonymous

    Finally, a resource where the SLA includes teenage mood swings - just wait until the on-call has to debug a segmentation *thought*

  3. Anonymous

    Finally, a production environment where 'it works on my brain' is a valid bug report, and the only dependency hell worse than node_modules is keeping your compute cluster alive with glucose and oxygen

  4. Anonymous

    Finally, a Python API where 'garbage collection' takes on a whole new meaning when your compute substrate literally dies after 100 days. Can't wait for the first production incident: 'Sorry, the brain organoid handling your authentication service achieved sentience and refused to process login requests.' At least when this crashes, you can legitimately say the hardware had a stroke

  5. Anonymous

    Wetware clusters: zero-latency neurons with infinite parallelism, until they demand coffee breaks and unionize

  6. Anonymous

    PM asks for autoscaling and HA; I explain the Python SDK supports neurogenesis with a nine‑month cold start and an IRB instead of a load balancer

  7. Anonymous

    Finally, a Python client whose retry policy is governed by synaptic plasticity - great, now idempotency has a learning rate

  8. dev_meme 2y

    If you're wondering what the platform actually does — you may not want to read this. In fact it's just a SDK for generating stimulations and sampling the output of neurons, you can't really "run some code" on it. They have a video demo on their site.

    1. @SomeWhereIBelong 2y

      So you are saying i cant run cyberpunk on it? Shame

      1. dev_meme 2y

        Let’s start with DOOM, we’re people of culture after all

    2. dev_meme 2y

      Do you ruin the fun on party’s in the same way? 😂

      1. dev_meme 2y

        I'm really excited after seeing this news but got disappointed after watching their demo, you may consider this as kind of TLDR. The fun part is still there but this news is a bit overhyped. 😇

    3. @ringsheep 2y

      How to find this video?

      1. dev_meme 2y

        Google FinalSpark and find the first link called "Neuroplatform". Not sure if links are allowed here.

        1. @purplesyringa 2y

          Links are allowed, yeah

          1. @purplesyringa 2y

            here's the link i think: https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/

            1. @purplesyringa 2y

              anyway, HOW THE FUCK IS THIS LEGAL

  9. Deleted Account 2y

    Finally

  10. @JackOhSheetImSorry 2y

    scream() ------------- error: "I have no mouth but I should scream"

  11. @Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

    I don't think that's ethical

    1. @noi01 2y

      It is. Also ethics kinda sucks

      1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

        Oki doki, you offended *put something cringe* and govermen decided as a measure of punishment use yout brain as visual acсelerator for render New Disney shitty movie. Have a great time!

        1. @noi01 2y

          Nice overexaggeration

  12. @dev_key 2y

    is this legal?

  13. @Sambuko100 2y

    They are allready made and we call them: The gen beta

  14. @disembowlement 2y

    How bioprocessors can be ethical and legal?

  15. @Araalith 2y

    Finally, some hardware that can keep up with Python's speed.

  16. @callofvoid0 2y

    programmable humanoid

  17. @callofvoid0 2y

    that "python api" is most definitly a C dynamic link lib sending electric pulses to neurons

  18. @ringsheep 2y

    When can we get one of these?

    1. @SamsonovAnton 2y

      — Mom, can we have a robobrain? — We already have robobrain at home. Robobrain at home:

  19. @bezuhten 2y

    Wait is it real? Do they have a website ir smth?

  20. @SamsonovAnton 2y

    This supposed to be animated gif: https://i.imgur.com/uewqto9.gif

  21. @noi01 2y

    This is so sick, why do people think about ethics lol

    1. @purplesyringa 2y

      I don't know, maybe because we're humans?

      1. @noi01 2y

        What's "inhuman" or "unethical" about brain organoid?

        1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

          That it's probaply used the human DNA to create these stuff and it possibly can suffer. (And we do not cancel fact that they could learn how to use real human brains for these operations)

          1. @noi01 2y

            That the same type of argument against abortions? It CANNOT possibly suffer, it dont even have any "parts" to enable this kind of feelings. And some degree of actual intellect is also not a question, bruh that organoid is like 2x2 cm.

            1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

              Okay, what about everyting else?

              1. @noi01 2y

                About using real human brains? I think they should be grown specifically for some task, already developed human brain is not suitable for any kind of "unnatural" computation. And even if some Neurolink in future could alter brain activity, then it is completely different topic and have nothing to do with little organoids(besides studying human brain)

                1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

                  I hope so

                  1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

                    bcs I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MATRIX I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MATRIX I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MATRIX I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MATRIX I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN MATRIX

            2. @purplesyringa 2y

              I mean, that's surely just the beginning, isn't it?

              1. @purplesyringa 2y

                They're using dopamine as a positive stimulation, what's stopping them from using negative stimulation as well?

                1. @noi01 2y

                  Does it really matter? Its almost exactly like basic neural networks are trained. If it dont have a sentience, then it cannot "suffer", just positive and negative feedback. I kinda sound like psycho lmao. But i think its just common sense for a scientific topic

                  1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

                    Yup, you definitely sound like a psycho scientist

              2. @noi01 2y

                Yup, and i really hope regulatory authorities will allow to grow a 1:1 human brain in lab conditions, i dont see anything bad about it

            3. @purplesyringa 2y

              Also, there are people who lack lots of brain structures and still score ~80 IQ, so 2x2 cm might well be enough

              1. @purplesyringa 2y

                (see https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.3679117/scientists-research-man-missing-90-of-his-brain-who-leads-a-normal-life-1.3679125)

                1. @noi01 2y

                  I know that story, fascinating, and surely are complete mystery, that why its so important to have lab-grown brains for research. Так или иначе, разве стоит останавливаться на маленьких органоидах? Потенциал огромный, как для плохо, так и хорошего

                  1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y

                    И тебе здраствуй

              2. @noi01 2y

                Cause brain is very "flexible", but it must have some basic structures anyway, i dont think its possible to develop any king of sentience in an isolated brain, even full sized

                1. @purplesyringa 2y

                  I think sentience can't spawn in isolation, but if you add read-world I/O — and I think that's what they're going to do — it very well might

                  1. @noi01 2y

                    Thats what im talking about. And I/O is surely will be added as soon as they can, questionable, but obvious direction for research

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