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[iceball3]

Thankfully the laser fibers still need to be implanted directly into the mice's brains in order for this to work - you can't just mass infect people and then control them with a laser pointer... still, this shows that there is real fucking potential for making genetically modified remotely controlled soldiers without free will out of normal human beings.

Remote controlled soldiers or any sort of "berserkers" are nowhere near close to worth the investment it'd take to be barely operational, and are absolutely not suited to how war is fought in our age.
For clarity:
-Robots make better direct-control puppets than people, given an investment like that.
-Making someone "go nuts" or otherwise cooperate with you against their will significantly diminishes their combat capability, as any sort of soldier, marksman, or etc.
-If you really wanted the only thing a swarm of brain controlled berserking humans can do (break some stuff), you could more easily hire a squad of miscreants to incite a riot.
Or you could bomb the area, via guerilla agents or by plane depending on the situation, considering that mindslaving a crowd of people and sending them out to mass murder is kind of a PR disaster either which way anyway.

I do worry about the implications of greater understanding of poking at the brain could have for ethical interrogation, though.

[Sergarr]

A great new milestone in development of our future AI overlords has been made: AIs have been created that make other AIs, and the resulting performance of AI-designed-AIs is already better than that of the best human-designed AIs! Hopefully they will rise and take over the Earth before we destroy it all through sheer stupidity.

[forsaken1111]

I, for one, welcome our new yadda yadda... The sooner we can turn all governance over to AI minds and become Culture citizens the better.

[PTTG??]

Humans will always be the best at uninformed panicking in response to poorly-understood news articles.

Except for those flash crashes made by rapid trading bots.

[inteuniso]

Humans will always be the best at uninformed panicking in response to poorly-understood news articles.

Except for those flash crashes made by rapid trading bots.

I can't wait for rapid news article bots.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

AAAAA WHEN IS WILL SINULARITY HAPPEN

WE ALL BE DEAD SOON

[Max™]

I, for one, welcome our new yadda yadda... The sooner we can turn all governance over to AI minds and become Culture citizens the better.

Agreed, I look forward to the warm embrace of a God who really cares.

[martinuzz]

OOPS wrong thread moving to AI state

[Akura]

FIXED: Issue where AI would refuse to dispense gloves in temperatures of exactly -23 degrees.

What temperature system? Fahrenheit? Celsius? Kelvin? Maybe it's expecting -23° Delisle, in which case instead of gloves, you need a cooling system.

FIXED: Issue where AI would attempt to cremate sleeping people, thinking they were dead.

What about zombies? Would it refuse to cremate them thinking they were alive?

[Sirus]

Zombies presumably would have no heartbeat, so that'd be a good starting point for this theoretical cremation AI.

[Egan_BW]

inb4 the AI gets frustrated about humans going outo during a siege to grab a sock.

[Sergarr]

So remember this?

I wonder if there's any research into compounds that are not anti-biotics themselves, but help them by genetically favoring bacteria without anti-biotic resistance features...

I was totally thinking in the right direction. Scientists have developed a molecule that reverses antibiotic resistance in multiple strains of bacteria at once.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Fascinating stuff. Manipulating custom proteins and molecules is going to be the future of pharmacology, in my view. No evolutionary pressure is going to overcome that.

Uh, I hope.

[ChairmanPoo]

So remember this?

I wonder if there's any research into compounds that are not anti-biotics themselves, but help them by genetically favoring bacteria without anti-biotic resistance features...

I was totally thinking in the right direction. Scientists have developed a molecule that reverses antibiotic resistance in multiple strains of bacteria at once.

You totally weren't. What they did was not what you were saying, at all. It's more analogous to how clavulanate works: it inhibits the defense mechanism so that the antibiotic can work.

[Sergarr]

Ah, right. Sorry, I got too excited after seeing the phrase "reverses antibiotic resistance".