Killing, the titular nature of a new television show on Apple TV +, not many kills. The freedom is exploited by the freedom of its governor’s module, the internal control system that punishes it is due to opposing orders from corporate owners. Now you can say that it is “quiet stopping”: Stopping by looking at favorite work soap surfaces and try to hide people under the protection of it from knowing it’s lost rogue.
The performance, on the basis of a Series in the book of Martha Wells called Kill DiariesThere is a main character made by clone tissue and robot hardware. It’s not a person, and it’s not a bot; This is something in the middle of being called a “build.” It can be found on security cameras or its eyes; It will talk to computer systems with code and people with language; Its digital memory can be extinguished by its creators, but it is Biological memory Traumatic flashes flashes that cannot be cleaned. It doesn’t always understand human emotions, however felt, deeply.
Correctly how this is component to cloned human tissue and computers circuities, we don’t know – and TV versions tell me that they don’t know. The wells of the books and a manufacturer of showing the show, it continues to be unclear. “(Wells) Want to play with the possibilities, but his world created is not very detailed we can’t see series for TV with his brother, Paul Witz.
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For me, a murderbot fan and brainstorm, “finding my way” talking to neuroscientists to see how brain and computer circuitry is involved Not only Science Fiction. “It was a cool idea that we were going through many ways,” says Alexander Huth, a neuroscientiist at the University of Texas in Austin (and with the assembly of the Austin (and companionships, and conflicts, however, and how we can think of the world.
The electrical brain
Above, it is like brains and computers should be equal enough – same job with electricity. Scientists use electricity to join the brain since 1924, if psychiatrist Hans Berger The electrodes first used to measure brainstorms. Fifty years ago the first brain interfaces used in electrical readings to affect the outside of the world – by preventing a computer scoser, Transfer brain brainstorms.
TODAY Computer interfaces in the brain more advanced. Electrodes torn inside the brain (or in some cases, sitting outside the scalp) pick upt Dure Trust of the Brainys and Contact Guide Prosthetic Limbs or Allow people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to communicateactually. Some researchers work on devices to bypass spinal cord injuries to Send signals from brain to paralyzed feet.
And, increasingly, researchers feed the brain sensor information also with computers, by developing prosthetic limbs sent physical feelings of touching the brain. Retinal implants For the visionSimilar to cochlear importances for hearing, sent to send visual brain information for some people with a result called retinitis pigmentosa. And some groups develop brain prosthetics to restore visibility by directly inspiring visual processing centers. It’s still a wonderful resolution, Huth said, but “it happened.”
Great principle of brain
None of this development will allow scientists to make a bot-person worker as killing at any time soon. In fact, the deeper arrival of this research, the more obvious why: even if both run electricity, human brain and computers have different methods of processing.
Get a classic sci-fi tope that happens one of the abilities to kill a murder of a digital eye show. What can a TV stage get to someone’s head?
“We never know,” said Huth. The most obvious approach involves maintaining the electrodes in the back of the brain, called Primary Visual Cortex, which first processed visual information from the eyes. But there is a problem. “You need millions and millions and millions of electrodes to read a long resolution image of your brain.” Some researchers The arrival of this problem is by leaving high-resolution details completely. They experiment with an inspirational level of works at a higher level process of more abstract information, such as faces. “You have experience with a face” even if not seen all the details, explained by Huth.
The problem is, as neuroscidanecist Rodrigo quian quiroga, is that the brain is an abstraction machine. Unlike a computer, it is not put into care for details. We forget the details of most of what we have experienced – in fact, we do not remember them. “The Human Brain doesn’t want to remember. It wants to understand, which is very different,” says Quiroga, who studies visual perception and memory at Hospital del Mar Research Institute in Spain. * He remember Perceiving is a construction pillars of meaning Determine are important. Vision, memory and consciousness built everything from little details. “The great principle of movement of the brain, for me, that is all build,” Quiroga said.
Computers, on the other hand, encodes each little information. Unlike a person, who is likely to remember only the NIST of their experienced, “a computer can play (Blade Runner) from the beginning to the last with no errors, “Quiroga said.
Can be an interface-computer interface one day to come that can increase your brain to play whole Blade Runner (or favorite to kill Murderbot kills, The rise and fall of the moon in the sanctuary) you think? Maybe. “Think it’s possible. Do you like that – because one of the important parts of how the brain acts so we forgot many things,” Quiroga said. This prevents us from getting lost in the endless details. “If it works like that, because of the millions of evolution years. So there may be a reason for it,” he warns.
AI age
Even brains don’t work like computers, computers work hard as the brain. “ChatGPT is more brutal than a laptop,” said Huth, who studies the human language system. Artificial intelligence large language models is “a very good match on how our brain represents information and language – the best we have,” he said. The scientists also Develop computer hardware that MIMIKO Neuronal Circuitryry. And some have tried Hooking AI Hardware to Brain OrganizationsOr the cultured clumps of neurons grow in a lab, to process information.
Well, no wonder that killing Hit a chord now. All the way back to Frankenstein, Science fiction shows our deepest cultural fears about technology we are now born. “At a specified level (killingThe story is) Topical because people are concerned with AI, “show co-clorator Paul Weitz.
But killing the tomb gets his attention because “looks like a good literary character more than anything else.” Chris Weitz added: “(kill) type of trope-we are used with the idea of this artificial person who wants to be human emotions. And want to do that.”
The murder is not human. That’s the more clear of all that leads to those who want to like it. But in spite of a man, And that fact cannot be changed despite those who seek to control it. This “unbreakable person,” says Paul Witz, driving the story. “That’s for me is a big, beautiful lesson.”
*Editor’s note (5/21/25): This penalty is edited after posting to correct Rodrigo Quiroga’s current involvement.
