Mary Shelley Wrote A Novel About This

…from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.*

A server rack in Singapore is processing information with living human neurons.

NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne, and Melbourne-based Cortical Labs have deployed a 20-unit biological computing rack at the National University of Singapore’s Life Sciences Institute. The system went live July 16 and was formally unveiled Aug. 17 after an Aug. 6 demonstration for more than 80 guests.

The installation brings biological computing into a live research environment as Singapore expands data-centre capacity while tightening energy-efficiency requirements. NUS Medicine said the demonstration showed CL1 computing units, microelectrode-array integration, and real-time neural network activity, while The Straits Times reported details of the system’s operation and maintenance.

12 Replies to “Mary Shelley Wrote A Novel About This”

  1. There were two critical commandments in Frank Herbert’s Dune universe that should be considered for our time:

    Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

    Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

  2. taken to its ultimate conclusion, this event will be expunged from every record anywhere,
    even the farthest reaches of space.
    if ya know whut l mean . . . . . . . .

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