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Have wetware computers gotten anywhere?

The wetware revolution seems like the next logical step for energy needs and AGI.

We have the ability to write and read text and jpgs from DNA. DNA could hold the entire internet circa 2017 in a shot glass, with much better stability than a traditional hard drive.

A human brain can hum along at 100 terraflops without generating enough waste heat to warm a small room, running off the energy in a bite of a candy bar.

Seems like the obvious place to go for AGI and vastly better processing power.

>> No.14778968

>>14778922
That all sounds really doubtful and likely involves a lot of very large assumptions and game playint with the meanings of words.
Anyway I also imagine, if we assume for the sake of argument everything you wrote there is literally true, then to get to the point of being able to use it you would have to understand it well enough to where it would stop being necessary and you could build the equivalent using regular non-biological technology instead.
I don't see any reason to believe that biological parts are inherently better at anything to do with computation, though I could believe there are things we don't yet know how to program that human brains do. I don't think the jelly substrate of a brain is particularly essential for computation.

>> No.14779061

>>14778968
>I don't see any reason to believe that biological parts are inherently better at anything to do with computation
Not OP. It probably depends on your metric for better. Producing rat brains on a massive scale and converting them into CPUs would likely be less harmful to the environment than the traditional CPU manufacturing process. But I would guess we'll see bio-batteries before bio-processors, if only because we need them more.

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>AGI.
Stopped reading. Hiding thread.

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>>14778922
>Have wetware computers gotten anywhere?

The real litmus test for a computer's usability boils down to one and only one question:
Can it run Doom?

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>>14779760
but can it run crysis?

>> No.14782269

>>14778922
I wanted one of those for Christmas 1987 so bad