How confident are you that these brain organoids are incapable of qualia and thus suffering?

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PS. Also, while congratulating the company, I also wanted to appreciate and second the question ...

We have no information on this topic. Consider that at this time we have the number of neurons equivalent to a larva fly.

Flies have demonstrated signs of consciousness so if that's supposed to be reassuring, it's not.

Compared to chips, where would flies be? 1 bit microcontroller level? Where our brain is tops of course (latest generation AMD or Intel)

What does a "Hello World" for something like this look like? Is it a API, do I push a docker image to it or something? How do you interact with this sort of system?

There a Python interface. The API enables to send stimulations, measure action potentials and deliver dopamine in real-time. There are 2 videos that explains this in more details on: https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/

ahh I didn't see the videos, thank you.

What does it feel like to be a real-life mad scientist?

Is the total mass of the organoids in your system greater than the mass of a single human brain?

Envelope calculation: 1 brain worth of neurons would make 10 million instances available for hire, and at 500 USD per instance would give monthly recurring revenue (MRR) at 5 billion USD.

Not too bad for a startup!

Honestly I see "rent your brain compute for money" as a real thing in the future.

I live that life now. It's a bit demeaning at times, but it beats physical hard labour.

No, it is way less. Consider we have about 10'000 neurons per organoid while our brain has about 100 billion.