AW: [aiethics] Forwarded from alicebot-list: Alice's future platform?

[Christian DroЯmann]

Alicebot AI Ethics Committee - http://www.alicebot.org



> Original message by Alan White from the alicebot-list:
>
>
> In her MIT laboratory, Linda Griffith has built a machine with
> the pulse of
> life.
>
> Inside a circular box just larger than a watch face, she has
> built what she
> hopes will be tomorrow's poison detector: a teeming colony of
> liver cells on
> a tiny wafer of silicon.
>
> ...
>
> "We hope to someday build the human body on a chip," said Griffith,
> associate professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering at the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Now, this is a rather interesting development...I wonder whether those =
liver
cells came from an animal or a human...
This might be a step towards the creation of cyborgs...
The next step might be using brain cells as a primitive logic circuit...

Christian