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"Pleased to meet you. My name is Mickey Mouse. Shall we have a game of scrabble?"
I think we need to go further and faster. The next step would be to implant a good-size chunk of human brain inside the brain of a large rat, and also connect the rat's human-rodent brain to an advanced AI agent, so that the AI agent can operate through the rat and its human-rodent brain. Then, you would have a humanoid, bionic rodent on steroids with the brain power of an AI bot.
This would be fascinating.
I am surprised no one has suggested it yet.
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Neuroscientists in the US have successfully adapted mice to have functioning human cells inside their own brains.
The researchers hope that potential treatments for psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases that only occur in humans could now be tested on the laboratory rodents.
While mice with brains that are partly human might sound like a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists said these are not "mice that think like humans".
The animals are genetically engineered - and surgically altered - so that some of their brain tissue is human.
[...] In particular, Allodi pointed to the fact that cell types that are found only in human and other primate brains - not in the brains of mice – spontaneously formed in the implanted mice.
"You're keeping the human program inside the mouse environment – like the mouse is an incubator," she told BBC News. [...]
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