I mean, it wouldn't be the first time a fungus used the body of something else to get to where it needs to go.
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Mushrooms are just the fruiting body of the mycelium network. What we have here is someone cutting a dick off and having it pilot a Gundam.
You do have a wonderful way with words!
It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.
Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.
Yeah the reality is they essentially used mycelium as nerve fibers, but I was riffing on the headline. There was also certainly no learning going on. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019
Mushroom Robot Army vs OpenAI Robot Army... whose side are you on?
I, for one, welcome our new fungus overlords.
A mushroom overlord sounds like a fungi
You just voluntered to be mulch for the spore beds.
I'm proud to serve our benevolent leaders
Humans lose anyway.
Glory to the human-mushroom-hybrids.
Mushroom Intelligence vs AI vs Humanity is the RTS I didn’t know I wanted
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Anyone got the DOI? I promise I won’t build a small swarm of wheeled mushrooms.
[edit]: Found it! https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adk8019
But you didn't promise anything about arachnic legs!
Making the dystopia less boring one step at a time.
Wait until they give mushrooms the ability to talk and they call us ugly meatbags and future soil.
My shroom trip vision made me believe that we are just a seed to spread spores and how that is why humankind loves exploring and burying each other in the ground. I also went into the afterlife where my mind connected to the underground network of mycelium and I could see all past memories of people that died and were connected. Before the vision though was the worst experience ever and I won't do it again
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Is it strange that I'm less concerned about mushrooms being able to talk than I am about mushrooms being able to see us?
[Mushroom global hive-mind] : "Good, good. It's all going according to plan"
How long until we can play doom on mushrooms?
I can play doom on mushrooms any time I want
How long until mushrooms can play Doom?
Cool, it can run for US President next if that’s still a thing.
Aroo!
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Cue the Jurassic Park quote we all know, but for some reason is constantly ignored.
It's all fun and games until we're overrun by cybernetic goombas.
What was that 70s movie?
Night of triffels? Or something?
There's something heartwarming about using the human ability to use technology to overcome limitations to help another species.
Thats basically the premise of the Uplift series by David Brin
Anyone who has seen mushrooms grow and multiply knows this is some next level scary shit
A fungus among us, how novel
I bet he's a fungi.
At least a good spore to hang out with
You know, if they fit the mold
So, this is real. Very cool.
Think of the neat new ways techbros are going to be able to fuck us in 20 years.
Vangers 2.0
Yet another scary mushroom dick.