[ExI] VERY cool. Toward mind uploading?

Ben Zaiboc benzaiboc at proton.me
Mon Mar 9 19:07:39 UTC 2026


On 09/03/2026 16:31, John K Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 9:55 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>         >> [Gemini] The fact that this was done with an adult brain moves us from "simulating a worm" to "simulating an agent." It effectively moves the "Mind Uploading" timeline from "science fiction" to "active engineering project."
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>     > It should be clear by now that this is not intelligence, it's, well, I'm not sure what it is, but it's not intelligence.
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> It's behavior, you're right it's not very intelligent behavior, but that's because a biological fly is not very intelligent. They say their next step is to do the same thing with a mouse, and a mouse can be intelligent. I see no reason to think they will be unsuccessful.  


Oh, sorry if I wasn't clear. That wasn't what I meant at all.

I'm talking about current 'AI' systems that are Large Language Models, nothing to do with the fly brain emulation, except in the AI's analysis of it, with such silly mistakes that no actually intelligent system would make.

-- 
Ben



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