Organic computing device created using four rat brains

[HEXUS]

Duke University researchers used them for weather prediction and other tasks.

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[shaithis]

Rain prediction with 41 per cent accuracy

The persistence method reaches almost double that and doesn't require any work, let alone wiring up rat brains....

[Percy1983]

And here was me thinking skynet was going to be the thing to finish us off.

Still, how far will this go?

[c12038]

RATNET Cyborg Ratinator

I will be back in hundreds of thousands

[Ttaskmaster]

Saitek Cyborg RAT-4, I assume...?

So they basically stuck some wires into some animals' brains to see if they could be networked?

Can they not at least do this with volunteer humans?
There are plenty of students and penniless candidates, who can give far more complex and comprehensive feedback than rats... and since you just KNOW this is where we're headed anyway, why not cut to the chase and leave animals out of it?

[devBunny]

and since you just KNOW this is where we're headed anyway, why not cut to the chase and leave animals out of it?

Did anyone else's rat-memed brain misread that as "cut to the cheese"? ;o)

[loyal986]

Its amaizing but they are just rats, and it isn't really that much of a calculation.

[ik9000]

anyone thinking of that scene in the matrix?

[Ttaskmaster]

anyone thinking of that scene in the matrix?

Thinking of HHGTTG, myself...!