The Mushroom Motherboard: The Crazy Fungal Computers that Might Change Everything

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  • Unlock the secrets of fungal computing! Discover the mind-boggling potential of fungi as living computers. From the wood-wide web to the Unconventional Computing Lab, witness the evolution of mushroom technology.
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  • @CaptainSweetheart
    @CaptainSweetheart 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3837

    And when it breaks I'm gonna have to start truffleshooting

    • @chasjetty8729
      @chasjetty8729 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      Amazing.

    • @testickles8834
      @testickles8834 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      *underrated comment*

    • @Vaeldarg
      @Vaeldarg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      Mold-based computing certainly results in the fuzziest of fuzzy logic.

    • @goosenotmaverick1156
      @goosenotmaverick1156 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Why doesnt this have more likes?! 😂😂

    • @smidget2323
      @smidget2323 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Sounds expensive

  • @dubsydubs5234
    @dubsydubs5234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3091

    The problem with using fungus as memory in computers is there's not mushroom to store stuff.

    • @donaldgregg9250
      @donaldgregg9250 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      😃😆😅😂🤣😅😂

    • @mykhalhughes4676
      @mykhalhughes4676 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

      The power of dad joke.

    • @nonow1353
      @nonow1353 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      I had to read it out loud before I got it lol 10/10

    • @donaldgregg9250
      @donaldgregg9250 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @nonow1353 that's why I cracked up so much! But I just noticed as typing this, he spelled it 'fugus', now I have to ponder if we're talking about the same thing 🤔 😂😅🤣😆😃🤣

    • @dubsydubs5234
      @dubsydubs5234 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@donaldgregg9250 My bad, fixed it for you, I'm going to blame spellchecker, it couldn't possibly be my fault.

  • @minimumwrist3546
    @minimumwrist3546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1237

    Friend: why can’t you play today?
    Me: my computer is trippin.

    • @johannesgent1950
      @johannesgent1950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Your comment deserve more likes

    • @minimumwrist3546
      @minimumwrist3546 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@johannesgent1950 thanks!

    • @TaviTopio
      @TaviTopio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Bro your comment is way too underrated 😂

    • @Aliballer
      @Aliballer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      This is brilliant

    • @lyricsvaultla
      @lyricsvaultla หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Brettin
    @Brettin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +207

    This video made me picture a type of person in the future, a mix between a PC hardware enthusiast who builds computers with side panels to see how great it looks inside, and a botanist or gardener tending their plants. Imagine some one tending and cleaning the dust off their PC while checking on the "living" components and the light, moisture, etc... People could "grow" components for their PC build. Wild idea!

    • @scottsmanonahorse
      @scottsmanonahorse 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Catch me with a plexiglass panel with a door to toss food scraps in, cpu gonna be over cooking.

    • @kollynd7860
      @kollynd7860 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Shit, with all the RGB, we have their light source already integrated lolol

    • @johnsmithe4656
      @johnsmithe4656 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Mushrooms are not plants and would not be studied by a botanist. It's a mycologist that studies mushrooms. Mushrooms are an entirely different kingdom from plants or animals. They don't photosynthesize (no strong light needed), they absorb oxygen and release CO2 like animals, they drop spores for asexual reproduction, they require very high humidity, and they can grow to full size in mere days. They also contain protein and are very nutritious.

    • @bidyo1365
      @bidyo1365 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johnsmithe4656

    • @johncribbs8382
      @johncribbs8382 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or the ai builds a humanoid army of shroom people.

  • @chaseweeks2708
    @chaseweeks2708 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3178

    Bio-degradable fungal computers are all fun and games until several city dumps become self-aware.

    • @OdyTypeR
      @OdyTypeR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +260

      Garbage-in-carnage-out

    • @Jalgmees
      @Jalgmees 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      good old GICO@@OdyTypeR

    • @cyleleghorn246
      @cyleleghorn246 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +129

      That's actually a crazy thought. I'd be interested in having a garbage dump or landfill dedicated to these fungi motherboards just to see what happens as they all begin to compost together, and their mycelium networks intertwine. This is a great concept. At the very least, I could probably use it to mine a few bitcoin before it burned itself out by consuming all the nutrients lol

    • @threadmarkone
      @threadmarkone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      😂

    • @alexandercorey850
      @alexandercorey850 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      The trashpocolyse will happen 😂

  • @gastonpossel
    @gastonpossel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1383

    The most important question is... can it run Doom?

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Yeahh but not at 60fps

    • @dillonlopez6799
      @dillonlopez6799 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      It is doom

    • @Jonpilen
      @Jonpilen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

      Doom on a shroom

    • @Ubu987
      @Ubu987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@coconutsmarties Sixty frames per day, given the latency.

    • @Gefionius
      @Gefionius 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Until it can run Doom, its not a MegaProject

  • @OwenHooper-mv4fm
    @OwenHooper-mv4fm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    More and more convinced that fungal hallucinations are actually just peering into the universe

  • @Hallgrenoid
    @Hallgrenoid 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    I appreciate you adding "AI depiction" to ai generated images. Never stop doing that. Keep being one of the good guys. Cheers.

    • @kyledsweeney
      @kyledsweeney 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Is it “good”? I suppose it’s better than no disclaimer at all, but is it actually “good”?
      All of these AI art generators are built on stolen artwork. How much money will this creator make from this video? How much more money will he make with 50 AI images that make it more interesting to look at? And how many of the original artists that the AI was trained on will see any of that money?
      None. And that’s by design. AI generative art is just a process of laundering stolen copyrighted material. And using it, especially it in a monetized video, is not a difficult moral quandary. It’s literally profiting from theft.
      --
      And I’m not commenting here to make anyone feel bad. These AI tools are interesting and there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the technology. The problem is with the work that was stolen to train the neural networks, and the exploitation and circumvention of protections that exist to allow people to make a living from their work.
      ---
      EDIT: I appear to be blocked and unable to respond to all these people. ​That's fine. I'm not interested in debating ethics with people who think there's no problem with using AI art in this way. To the people who try to justify it as harmless, or indistinguishable from human creative works, you're simply wrong and there's no moral high ground on your side. Your argument boils down to "it conveniences me enough that I stopped caring about the people it hurts." These AI companies made it easy for you to feel this way by obfuscating every part of their process. But if you think about it for more than 5 seconds you'll realize they had to have stolen most of the art they used to train their models. And by using the tool, especially in a monetized work, you're profiting from the theft of other people's work. That's all.

    • @tomsterbg8130
      @tomsterbg8130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@kyledsweeney I look at it slightly differently, while AI has its good benefits (easily do what you want without much investment) and bad "benefits" (take someone's work without their knowledge) and its drawbacks (not being creative, taking low paid/free labor to make datasets for teaching the model, etc.) there's something else to consider.
      Imagine that someone looks at a picture, they remember the picture so well that they can re-draw it. You can get really close to redrawing a picture, but as long as you drew it and there's obvious differences, you'll rarely be accused of stealing the art, but you'll more often get accused of stealing the idea. You could technically say that AI does the exact same, but differently. Humans can download any picture and reproduce it in their own way, AI while not being creative, can also use real data and reproduce it in a "unique" way.
      So consider that maybe it's not that important what goes in, but what goes out. Still, AI is rotten to the core and I am in no way willing to defend terrible practices.

    • @kyledsweeney
      @kyledsweeney 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tomsterbg8130 I think reproducibility is for sure a moral argument you can make against AI. I've heard arguments that the process of training a neural network is basically how a human brain learns, and while that may be true at a high level, the specifics of the process of learning/training are inarguably inhuman.
      And of course there are the ethics of automation replacing people's jobs. Under capitalism, any automation (the means of production) that is under the control of capital will be horrible for the workers that the automation was designed to replace.
      But most people aren't that critical of capitalism, and of course the creators of these tools have given their best attempts to smooth over the moral question of using a tool that puts someone else's livelihood at risk.
      ---
      So, most of my arguments against AI in a comments section like this one are boiled down to the morally unambiguous. Things that, in general, everyone agrees on. Almost every country in the world has laws protecting creators and their work. If you don't want someone to use your art or music or text or creative idea, especially in a way that profits from off if it, you have legal protections. You can tell people how your work can be used and you have avenues for compensation if someone violates those protections. The ethics of the ownership of creative ideas or works are pretty much settled. There's no ambiguity. We basically all agree, to the point that world governments have codified it into their laws.
      AI/ML fundamentally depends on huge datasets. It's not possible to get the results displayed in this video without collecting an extremely large number of images. And every major AI image generator has admitted that their input datasets contain images where they did not obtain consent from their original creators. There are a number of reasons for that, but at the end of the day, their datasets contain stolen images. Images that *should* be under the protection of copyright and intellectual property laws that have been circumvented.
      So, that's my argument. AI image generators were created from stolen work. If artists controlled the AI art generators, or if they were awarded something like residuals every time an image was generated from a dataset that contained their original work, it would potentially be a bit less of a problem. But as of right now, profiting from AI artwork is profiting from theft.

    • @itoibo4208
      @itoibo4208 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      now if they could just get to the point

    • @devforfun5618
      @devforfun5618 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@kyledsweeney worse than that, the ai generated images looked nothing like the real pictures of fungus computers, so the only thing they did was mislead without ilustrate anything, there are around 10 pictures of fungus growing around capacitors

  • @Techsupport243
    @Techsupport243 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +359

    When you can't play games because you forgot to feed your computer.

    • @DonutGuy640
      @DonutGuy640 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Favorite comment!

    • @driverjamescopeland
      @driverjamescopeland 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      When the last game you play is The Last of Us... because you were (the last of us).

    • @mangaminx9440
      @mangaminx9440 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Cheeto fingers becomes a life hack

    • @huxleybennett4732
      @huxleybennett4732 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kinda the case now, you're just feeding it electricity for now

  • @tommytwotacos8106
    @tommytwotacos8106 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +573

    I'd heard that they tried to incorporate one of those mushroom computers into the brain of a humanoid robot, but the damn thing just sat there looking at its hands for 3 hours while occasionally going, "whoa, dude..."

    • @trolly4233
      @trolly4233 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      LOL

    • @grimd8788
      @grimd8788 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      😂
      Been there.

    • @tommytwotacos8106
      @tommytwotacos8106 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      You know who the cool kids were/are by who is laughing at this joke. I was going to end it by adding that, "the problem only subsided so that the project could continue when one of the engineers put on 'Dark Side of the Moon' and lit some incense" but I thought that might over sell it a bit and end up encumbering the punchline.

    • @tommytwotacos8106
      @tommytwotacos8106 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      I must admit that I’ve derived quite a bit of enjoyment from the following picture in my mind: Several researchers, scrambling around their lab and trying to save their robot w/ a mushroom computer as part of its analytical processing array experiment. The problem being that upon activating the completed test subject, all that happened was that the exclaimed, “I finally understand the nature of time!” before becoming inextricably fixated on an art history textbook.
      Then one of the grad student engineers has an epiphany and puts on “Electric Ladyland” to see what would happen. The robot develops a look of intense concern as the track “and the gods made love” begins to filter through its audio processors where the math of music is then pulled apart and analyzed by its synthetic brain. The head researcher looks over at the young engineer who’d put on the music. Had this young man (or woman, I’m hip) just doomed the entire project?
      Then, 3 struts of a muted chord and Jimi’s voice, “Have you ever been, to Electric Ladyland…” and all of sudden a visage of instant relief and euphoria appears on the robot’s face as it begins operating within nominal parameters, responding appropriately to all subsequent queries. Folders full of paper thrown into the air, researchers hugging and exchanging hearty handshakes. End scene. If this isn't the future somewhere, somehow, then we’ve made a mistake.

    • @bonkgameing
      @bonkgameing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@tommytwotacos8106yeah yeah we get it weedhead. Shrooms make you trip. You’re not cool

  • @crynauct
    @crynauct 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Imagine we went back in time 100 years and told a dude that by 2024, groups of researchers have managed to communicate with fungi, and are undergoing the process of evolving specific, more suited fungi for communication so that they are capable of things beyond human processing, and even, the "ultra-futuristic" super-computing devices that are already capable of processing information at unimaginable speeds. Unc would geek.

    • @RyanBirk
      @RyanBirk วันที่ผ่านมา

      Reading this comment for some reason made me think of Halo and the flood

  • @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269
    @deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Oh neat, like the stuff in Scavenger's Reign. That's really neat, whoever came up with the idea must be a fun guy.
    😄👍

  • @pewterhacker
    @pewterhacker 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +279

    Summary: Humans on mushrooms use AI to generate images of mushrooms on computers.

    • @EyeSeeThruYou
      @EyeSeeThruYou 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      True irony, eloquently delivered. 👏 🏆

    • @Kenny2k08
      @Kenny2k08 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@EyeSeeThruYouthe circle of life

    • @irbis_rosh
      @irbis_rosh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You're a really fun guy

    • @scorpioatx2556
      @scorpioatx2556 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Videos like this is how Elon Musk successfully ran the biggest Ponzi scheme

    • @eaudesolero5631
      @eaudesolero5631 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      mushyshrooms on computers use humans to ....

  • @sharpsheep4148
    @sharpsheep4148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +370

    So if your fungal laptop overheats, you can add some soy sauce and eat it with rice.

    • @pearhams2
      @pearhams2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Then you'd be looking a way more than 4million colors.

    • @josuea.v.4232
      @josuea.v.4232 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds mellow to me 😂​@@pearhams2

    • @Openreality
      @Openreality 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or just become a zombie and try some brains, because that's gonna happen where you like it or not. Laugh now cry later, right?

    • @Guts-the-Berserker
      @Guts-the-Berserker 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Endocrine disruptive sauce mmmmm

    • @bullettime1116
      @bullettime1116 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Openrealityhe's not going to become a cordyceps zombie

  • @sqeekydemon9569
    @sqeekydemon9569 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I first hear about this on Kentucky Route Zero, then Scavengers Reign, now i'm hearing it's an actual thing? That's wild

  • @marasmiusgoldcrow6746
    @marasmiusgoldcrow6746 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I absolutely love this!!! I've been a wild food forager for most of my life and I've always been fascinated by fungi and their capabilities. Awesome topic, awesome research, awesome video. Much love.

  • @Fenrir1
    @Fenrir1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +309

    The old game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri took place on a planet almost entirely covered in an alien fungus, and one of the ways to win the game was to use human technology to awaken the vast neural network of the fungus and create a Gaia entity, a conscious planet of alien fungus and millions of uploaded human minds.

    • @captain_clark868
      @captain_clark868 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Sounds like a cool D&D idea with wood nymphs that use fungus to process arcane knowledge.

    • @muhammadal-khwarizmi6933
      @muhammadal-khwarizmi6933 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      NAILED IT!

    • @owen8681
      @owen8681 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Oh yeah loved it, using the power of mind worms to control and upgrade your drones. Dont go the drones need you !

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Horrifying... the thought of being packed in tight with so many humans ... I mean the smell alone!

    • @Fenrir1
      @Fenrir1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL@@Nefylym

  • @E3_Kruger
    @E3_Kruger 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +291

    Hey Simon, thanks so much for covering this. I actually worked on mycelial computation as part of my research work in cognitive computing. One note, it's highly effective at high throughput, parallelised but extremely high latency computation with infinitely configurable IO. We see this as an excellent opportunity for 2 specific Computational/interface problems. 1: AI inference 2: Brain computer interfaces. With the second being particularly important for us. Imagine being able to take a small series of injections, and a brain computer interface will literally build itself inside your head, no invasive surgery, no risk of an EMP or electrocution frying your brain, and the ability to remove it with a small course of antifungal medications. This may sound frightening to some, but to us the idea of non "hard", fully reversible BCI tech that could act as a neural symbiote is extremely exciting. The best of fungal advantages for neural health, the ability to have a functional, near cellular level resolution BCI that is also fully reversible without invasive surgery or potentially any lasting damage is incredibly exciting. Once again thank you so much for covering this topic, it means the world to me and my team.
    Kruger

    • @princess_sarina_aria_elysia
      @princess_sarina_aria_elysia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      How would the fungus in the brain of this hypothetical patient be kept alive?

    • @LordOfTheTermites
      @LordOfTheTermites 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      How hard would it be to make something that can survive from the circulatory system and that also doesn't cause debilitating symptoms?

    • @E3_Kruger
      @E3_Kruger 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      @@princess_sarina_aria_elysia Nutritional exchange. Bioengineer the myclia to absorb some of the same nutrients we as humans may not fully need, and remove the ability of it to process neural/bodily tissue if the specific strain used if the scaffolding for the interface had the capacity to do so.

    • @coconutsmarties
      @coconutsmarties 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Why does this sound like it should be the concept of a Michael Crichton novel

    • @Bobbycustom883
      @Bobbycustom883 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Good lord it’s Kruger from “Archer” haha
      Seriously though that all does sound brilliant. It’s probably not for me but Im pretty excited to see the inevitable integration.

  • @user-vsmsdos
    @user-vsmsdos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    We've become orcs and our magic mushroom computers will soon power our new intergalactic spacecrafts.

    • @revanamarie7210
      @revanamarie7210 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol .. Humans are Space Orcs

  • @eminemand50ct
    @eminemand50ct 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Fungus is going to start talking to other Fungus, build robots, and take over. Sounds like some terminator stuff lol

  • @catherineyonganddavidwilso7176
    @catherineyonganddavidwilso7176 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    Thank you for adding the clarifying note: "AI Depiction" onto any relevant images. I hope others follow suit.

    • @ob3ythee.t.128
      @ob3ythee.t.128 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah I wish there were better ways of embedding images with water marks or signs that show that its AI however people can just screenshot, photoshop. Even metadata can just be removed, so its the duty of people to state whether or not something is AI unfortunately.

    • @PretendingToBeAHuman
      @PretendingToBeAHuman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      While it’s great they’re at least labelling it, using AI images is still super misleading in a science video. What does it actually look like? Probably not anything like that. I'm very concerned about the amount of false images flooding science/history videos on YT. They are not diagrams, they are not photos, they are not reality.

    • @moonasha
      @moonasha 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@PretendingToBeAHuman no it's not? it's just filler that would previously have been stock footage of something entirely unrelated. This filler is just cooler. Calling it misleading is itself misleading

    • @rorymoran4418
      @rorymoran4418 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It also feels lazy imo. There weren't really any connection from the generated images to specifically what was being said. @@PretendingToBeAHuman

    • @pbsixgun6
      @pbsixgun6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PretendingToBeAHuman It's faster and cheaper than having an artists 'concept' drawings. As long as it's properly labeled there is zero issues. It's the propaganda that is NOT saying it's 'A.I. generated' that is shameful and misleading.

  • @jasonmasterson686
    @jasonmasterson686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +320

    There is a company called Ecovative that makes a styrofoam replacement material out of mycelium. They also make a leather like material. Mushrooms are the future

    • @captain_clark868
      @captain_clark868 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      That's fascinating to know, thanks for sharing!

    • @thefloop2813
      @thefloop2813 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      they would be if thats a future our collective species was interested in. they could be if we had a positive future at all.

    • @Drawperfectcircles
      @Drawperfectcircles 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember them. Just forgot their name. Now I can look them up

    • @awkwardlyrachel5524
      @awkwardlyrachel5524 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are they the same folks who are making a meat substitute with the mycelium? They've perfected the system of growing mycelium or their fruit, depending on what they want to do with the product.

    • @OurSpaceshipEarth
      @OurSpaceshipEarth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Reminds me of that Ted talk with the girl suggesting people be buried in a suit that's basically a mycelium laced growth substrate. I really hoped we'd see that styrofoam replacement by now, it's just common sense like how insanely removed are human beings from reality to think single use styrofoam is acceptable when it's just purely obvious corporate criminal intent.

  • @WBrizzle81
    @WBrizzle81 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is low key scary. I'm thinking of Akira-like scenarios.

  • @Mad4BBQ
    @Mad4BBQ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating stuff. I particularly love the heavy metal riff at the end. I subbed. Thanks!

  • @jugro7639
    @jugro7639 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    "Don't you wanna take your moldy sandwich next to your computer to the trash?"
    "Nah, I'm upgrading the system..."

    • @tomsterbg8130
      @tomsterbg8130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "That's sick dude, are you making the new MR 3090 FI?"

  • @goofysdodgeball
    @goofysdodgeball 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +247

    I love how we’re combining our two biggest world ending fears right now. One zombie AI apocalypse coming right up 😂

    • @09Drdray
      @09Drdray 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The walking inbred

    • @tristan8922
      @tristan8922 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      It’s 100% like the WAU from the game SOMA.

    • @Mr.-Enigma-
      @Mr.-Enigma- หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Eco Friendly Skynet is coming for us😆

    • @mikinaakandersen1189
      @mikinaakandersen1189 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I mean the real world ending fear where all these other fears come from is... Change. Any new science people yell is going to end the world, lol.

    • @lordofthehats4468
      @lordofthehats4468 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Here's hoping

  • @mikinaakandersen1189
    @mikinaakandersen1189 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This isn't surprising. Lecture from when I was in college for Computer Science was all about how we have peaked with our computing tech atm besides reorganization and tweaks. He said that the next step was switching to biological computering due to biological electric switches are faster than anything we can fabricate with non-living materials. This is a great path in exploring such progressions in computing tech.

  • @High-Tech-Geek
    @High-Tech-Geek 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We must be VERY CAREFUL with fungal/human connections. Medically, internal fungal infections are extremely difficult to deal with and are often fatal. We just don't know enough how to control them.

  • @axle.student
    @axle.student 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +345

    I think my old tower is already self evolving into a fungal computer lol

    • @CoolerThanJim
      @CoolerThanJim 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      At first I read towel not tower.

    • @jackcarterog001
      @jackcarterog001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Clean yo room!

    • @ZephyrAvoxel
      @ZephyrAvoxel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      radioactive ☢️ LoL

    • @ZephyrAvoxel
      @ZephyrAvoxel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      p.s. Ar, sometimes it's not a tower, sometimes it's a lighthouse.

    • @axle.student
      @axle.student 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@CoolerThanJim lol That happens to me a lot :)

  • @petersaunders5808
    @petersaunders5808 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Job security tip: get ahead of the game by learning to program the mold in your walls

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      i would but it keeps hacking my desktop to look up kittens and guns

  • @TimP-eu3vp
    @TimP-eu3vp 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You have amazing content. Thank you for reviewing for the people who are watching you. Not the companies who are pushing out bad products and pay for internet hype up.

  • @jimbeckert7946
    @jimbeckert7946 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'm going on vacation for two weeks, can you feed and water my computer while I'm gone?

    • @TsaotBananentoast
      @TsaotBananentoast 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Crazy, but so is "I dropped this comuter while it wrote memory, my thesis is gone. I should have written millions of bytes as backup and saved it in the cloud"

    • @jimbeckert7946
      @jimbeckert7946 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@TsaotBananentoast That problem has already been solved by solid-state drives.

  • @HODGKINSON.
    @HODGKINSON. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Brings a whole new meaning to “my computer died”

  • @jadeboswell-rz2ly
    @jadeboswell-rz2ly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +252

    As a doctor of mycology I found your video very intriguing. I usually work with medical doctors in the case of intoxicated patients. Those that have eaten dangerous species.. this tend to self replicate on human organs. Thank you..

    • @scottnj2503
      @scottnj2503 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      I'm acquainted with human organ transplants. My doctors told me, fungal infections were worse than bacteria or viruses.

    • @cyleleghorn246
      @cyleleghorn246 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      I'm getting into mushrooms, this sounds fascinating! I know fungi in your lungs can be catastrophic, but that's about where my knowledge ends.
      Recently I saw an article that said scientists were shocked by a type of mushroom sprouting from a living frog's skin. I can see how that would be alarming since most mushrooms are saprotrophic, at least the edible ones I'm learning about. Are there mushrooms growing in the woods that have spores that can take root in living human tissue? Other internal organs? Or does it always affect the lungs? I'd be really interested in knowing some of the species or buzzwords I can use to research more into this topic.
      I've had the idea to recreate MIT's rat brain computer for awhile, but doing the same thing with mushrooms looks a lot more sane to the outside observer. It would be cool to get a mycelium network to fly a flight simulator

    • @jadeboswell-rz2ly
      @jadeboswell-rz2ly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Mycology spans various spectrums. I would recommend Collins and Roger Phillips books on fungi.

    • @ajaxthegreatest2191
      @ajaxthegreatest2191 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      I should have never came here. Sleep ruined for the next week.

    • @marcbeebee6969
      @marcbeebee6969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​​@@cyleleghorn246 the girls in the survival shows are scared of fungi in the wet areas 😅 sounds worst

  • @nOkay986
    @nOkay986 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Everyone predicted the future would be flying cars but everything really just turns into mushrooms... I love it lmfao

  • @steelymodz1834
    @steelymodz1834 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    sounds amazing love this idea. if we end up with a computer like this in the future just think what els they would incoprate this into . the answer is just about everything

  • @Kain59242
    @Kain59242 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

    "you cannot kill me in a way that matters", Dave.

    • @theicyphoenix_7745
      @theicyphoenix_7745 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      after seeing this lowkey the Hfy stereotype of humans first encoutners with aliens having aliens appear to use biological computers and then be consufed that we have tricked a rock into thinking might not be that far from reality lol

  • @ZMB-on5ub
    @ZMB-on5ub 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +156

    I remember seeing an experiment where a slime mold managed to make the Tokyo subway more efficient. Obviously they didn't change anything but it was the efficiency of transport that was the point. Fascinating critters.

    • @chrislaface1973
      @chrislaface1973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I saw the same doc really cool stuff

    • @hamstercanibal
      @hamstercanibal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I think you are talking about Paul Stamets

    • @ZMB-on5ub
      @ZMB-on5ub 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@hamstercanibal No. I know who he is. It was a doc.

    • @Ubu987
      @Ubu987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      The slime mold effectively solved the 'travelling salesman' problem, which is a hard problem in combinatorics, becoming practically insoluble very quickly.

    • @ryshellso526
      @ryshellso526 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is just routing and switching... routing protocols would help.

  • @JL-gg5ib
    @JL-gg5ib 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mushrooms creep me out and I don’t know why but I do love tripping on them.

  • @asdzxc1471
    @asdzxc1471 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    all these AI images of mushrooms grownig on computers are irritating the hell out of me, man, too mush

    • @I-Fail-A-Lotl
      @I-Fail-A-Lotl วันที่ผ่านมา

      I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

  • @emailformosa
    @emailformosa 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

    We are the original self replicating Fungal Computers, creating the next iteration of Fungal Computers.

    • @Vectorized_mind
      @Vectorized_mind 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Your on to something. The intersection of Biology and Computation is theoretically the only logical way to develop actual sentient life(Artificial Biology) that can potentially not just compute faster than a human but can also be self-conscious of the computation it performs.

    • @pondurosa3792
      @pondurosa3792 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Trippy

    • @tygyrlylly8079
      @tygyrlylly8079 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I've had this distinct feeling at time while partaking in cubensis journeys, that we humans are merely an extension of the mushrooms fungal network and are serving to propogate said network.

    • @flwznthrtn
      @flwznthrtn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What i thought as well 😂

    • @La80R4TQRiii
      @La80R4TQRiii 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When it randomly visually reminds you at an inopportune time

  • @nickolasbrown3342
    @nickolasbrown3342 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Petition: Name the first fungal-based general-AI "Princess Toadstool"

    • @Thefan
      @Thefan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I like that joke, you must be a fungi.

  • @WHYsauce
    @WHYsauce 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love this sort of research SO MUCH

  • @hootinouts
    @hootinouts 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I knew someone who worked for the railroad as a signal maintenance technician and he told me that they were given a tour of a lab that had some sort of super computer that he described as looking "organic". That's exactly how he described it. He said it was the strangest thing he'd ever seen.

  • @thebigpicture2032
    @thebigpicture2032 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Now I have existential dread about AI mushrooms.

    • @lv1543
      @lv1543 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I am a monument to all your sins

    • @robertkelley8355
      @robertkelley8355 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Real life Toad from super mario

    • @georgekane6732
      @georgekane6732 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Mushrooms + computers = Terminators. 😂

    • @j.d.4697
      @j.d.4697 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Yep, we might get kicked off the evolutionary ladder by GI mushrooms.
      They could turn the entire planet into a living GI brain. 😵‍💫

    • @danielstrange2888
      @danielstrange2888 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@lv1543 laughed so hard seeing this as the first comment

  • @erasmus_locke
    @erasmus_locke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Computer chips that can evolve?
    I'm not sure that's a viable business model

    • @Pals420
      @Pals420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      in b4 fungal ban

    • @ripn929707
      @ripn929707 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      It is if they use the EA subscription model. 😂

    • @bakedbeings
      @bakedbeings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      They said that about open source. The key is in support services - fertiliser, pest control, damp containment.

    • @hansdegroot652
      @hansdegroot652 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The chips no the os devolves every update

    • @christophvolar3481
      @christophvolar3481 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I dunno if its a good idea to integrate corticeps with computers.......

  • @GetMoGaming
    @GetMoGaming หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The slime mould can solve tasks of computational geometry, image processing, logic and arithmetics... all this on top of being fun-guys and fun-gals.😏

  • @johnridolfo2290
    @johnridolfo2290 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I may have missed it but I think you left out the amazing fact that fungi are actually more closely related and share more DNA with humans than they do any other plants, bacteria, or viruses which I find absolutely fascinating

    • @crowbrocaw
      @crowbrocaw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which is why some people describe them as "meaty"

    • @kaitlinhillier
      @kaitlinhillier 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also they're the only organism with 3 nuclei per atom. Suggesting extraterrestrial origin.

  • @MattyJ55046
    @MattyJ55046 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I had no idea this was even possible let alone this far into the process.

  • @brechtstroobant9879
    @brechtstroobant9879 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    Been fixing pc's for the better part of two decades and honestly, I'm not surprised someone got the idea if I recall how fuzzy some motherboards were.
    Pro tip: if your computer doesn't work after being in a damp room for a couple of years, maybe try looking inside. You'd be shocked at what you might find

    • @dennisfarris4729
      @dennisfarris4729 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Had a tower that lived in the garage, the interior was a city of bugs....

    • @phillipwilliams3544
      @phillipwilliams3544 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mould ruined my laptop

    • @ATCRyderX
      @ATCRyderX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@phillipwilliams3544 No It didn't.

  • @gigawattzgamereviews2094
    @gigawattzgamereviews2094 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    fungi do not pre-date “any other living organism”. They just pre-date plants and animals.

    • @citricdemon
      @citricdemon 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Do they predate your mom?

  • @Heeroneko
    @Heeroneko 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    The AI images are unnecessary filler. I'd much rather see actual examples of what's being discussed or the speaker.

    • @Nicole-pt4bx
      @Nicole-pt4bx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      THIS

    • @Ghostrander
      @Ghostrander หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Same

    • @surcettinr2600
      @surcettinr2600 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I agree... one or two is okay, but too many kinda cheapens the rest of the content

    • @zakbly
      @zakbly หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Right. At least it’s not a weird ai person also with mono ai voice

    • @j.d.4697
      @j.d.4697 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Then look at the actual examples he showed too, you man-baby.

  • @mariusvanc
    @mariusvanc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    Someone got to go ham on midjourney for this one 🤣🤣🤣

    • @yeahitskimmel
      @yeahitskimmel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Told it "Mushroom computer" and decided if I'm paying for every result I'm gonna use every last result lol

    • @mikestone6078
      @mikestone6078 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Every. Single. Result.
      Twice.
      Ngl, it's crossed the line into annoying ...

    • @cikame
      @cikame 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikestone6078 I've been thinking this show needs a new editor for a while but between that, the constant whoosh sound effects, exaggerated zooms and the images that require explanation but receive no explanation, something has got to change.
      Does he still do the voice filter and old timey tv thing? That was super annoying too.

  • @Mike80528
    @Mike80528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "Is that a compost pile in the corner of your office?"
    "No, that's my new workstation!"

  • @TubularTortilla
    @TubularTortilla 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Interesting to find this video. I once seen a video where scientists were playing with the idea of moss being used as a rudimentary solar battery. Plants are cool.

  • @robertspruill3067
    @robertspruill3067 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice to see you again Simon

  • @caliwolf7150
    @caliwolf7150 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    As a fungus programmer I’m glad that you shed a light on this topic Simon, super excited for the future especially the Fungus Vision Pro

    • @hawaiian_judge5113
      @hawaiian_judge5113 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      bullshit. you're less than 1%

    • @stavros222
      @stavros222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As a touchgrass developer i would like to meet a fungus programmer

    • @caliwolf7150
      @caliwolf7150 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stavros222 We fungus programmers live in isolation away from the savage grass touching specimens

    • @caliwolf7150
      @caliwolf7150 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stavros222 We fungus programmers live in isolation, far away from the savage grass touching devs, please do not disturb

  • @4NeoHelix4
    @4NeoHelix4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    This is a concept that's explored in a recent, adult Sci-Fi show on HBO: Scavengers Reign!!! The organisms on the setting planet invade a robot assistant's hardware, allowing them to become more self-aware and aware of the planet-wide ecosystem itself. Wicked concept that could be integrated into many fields of science one day, I bet!

    • @Antonio-xq2hg
      @Antonio-xq2hg 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      SCAVENGERS REIGN MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣‼️‼️

    • @danielconway7190
      @danielconway7190 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yes! Great show

    • @ahetzel9054
      @ahetzel9054 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yessss!!! Just left a comment telling him to watch it! I absolutely loved that show. So well done

  • @bruce-le-smith
    @bruce-le-smith 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great writing and editing, thanks

  • @brianbrenton1025
    @brianbrenton1025 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    You know it's an intriguing idea when Simon stays on topic.

    • @TheFragrantClerk
      @TheFragrantClerk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      But he said “Not by any conscious means, of course” and lost me.

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheFragrantClerk doesn't rule out unconscious means tho 🧐

    • @TheFragrantClerk
      @TheFragrantClerk 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠​⁠@@Nefylym”Not by any conscious means” means (to me) “without consciousness”. There is not ANYTHING that occurs without consciousness, we and everything in our existence is a manifestation of infinite intelligence.

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheFragrantClerk ... breathing ...

  • @Sp1der44
    @Sp1der44 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Yet another perfect example of "As above so below". I've watched many videos on the topic of slime molds and fungus and it is quite arguable that mycelium already make up the neural pathways of a large portion of the earth and that their topography, a robust desire to branch out, connect and interface with each other and the other plants in their vicinity are demonstrative of this. The idea of mushroom-to-brain interfacing has been ongoing since they were first discovered by hominids and other creatures. Research on the effects of Lions mane, turkey tail, and psychoactive mushrooms sort of lends credence to the idea. This was a completely fascinating exploration of this subject and I would love to possibly hear more from you in the future on this topic. Absolutely outstanding video. Wonderful stuff! 👍

    • @supme7558
      @supme7558 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No

    • @donwall9632
      @donwall9632 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Explain ​@@supme7558

    • @Varunic219
      @Varunic219 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes!

    • @alfonsozarate2458
      @alfonsozarate2458 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Absolutely 👍

  • @tomcushing3619
    @tomcushing3619 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh Simon! Thank you so much for including "AI Dipiction" in the corner of every picture! I, for one, was ready to believe that they were real computers!😁

  • @12TribesUnite
    @12TribesUnite 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super cool ! Great video!

  • @hamhouke
    @hamhouke 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    That was the most information dense presentation I have ever seen where I finished knowing nothing more about the subject than when it started. 😂

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He got some things wrong. Like putting the genus _Cordyceps_ in the phylum _Basidiomycota_ ... it is an ascomycete, not a basidiomycete. And he even sort of suggested that basidiomycota is a single mushroom, when it is actually of group of hundreds of genera and tens of thousands of described species.

    • @wildflower1397
      @wildflower1397 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@cacogenicist Oh... well that clears it all up. 😂

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@cacogenicist well if it isn't Radaghast the Brown, hello old friend!

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wildflower1397 - Glad I could be of services. Nothing chaos my ass like people trying to call _Cordyceps_ a basidiomycete, ya know?

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Driving a casserole themed food van through a post-apocalypse war zone crawling with enemy cyber-shrooms.
    *The Shitake's About to Hit the Fan!*

  • @davidlarson3905
    @davidlarson3905 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For anyone interested in an animated series that incorporates *this* as one of the main plot points, I highly recommend Scavengers Reign!

  • @loccolock5358
    @loccolock5358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had similar thought after watching a video on how mushroom growth works
    They mushrooms needs food sources in in order to get effective, but along the lines of the connections would be 1 cell wall thick and that to me is unfathomably impressive, if you could remove them and replace them with more durable fillings would be an interesting concept but generally I don't know what use chases it would have other than lower resources on build designs.
    Interesting concepts

  • @AlexanderLund
    @AlexanderLund 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Taking the cordyceps fungi and literally strapping it to our body so it can 'talk' to it sounds like a bad idea

    • @joshward3090
      @joshward3090 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Hmmm....seems like they are looking to play the last of us live action...

    • @captain_clark868
      @captain_clark868 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@joshward3090Absolutely insane!

  • @Sciguy95
    @Sciguy95 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    This would put a whole new meaning to being "on shrooms."

    • @thethirdchimpanzee
      @thethirdchimpanzee 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      When the AI running on your mushroom based neural network "hallucinates*...it's *really* gonna hallucinate!!

    • @Sciguy95
      @Sciguy95 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@thethirdchimpanzee that would make a cool horror or even comedy movie idea. A mushroom based computer AI starts to act as if it were high on shrooms and goes crazy.
      The Last of Us (Future Edition): The world has defeated and fully recovered from the Cordyceps fungus outbreak and has advanced to the point of using artificially intelligent robots that just happen to use mushroom based computers to run the AI. Suddenly the Cordyceps fungus returns! But this time it's infecting the robots, and now we have to worry about robo-clickers, NOT AGAIN!!!!!

    • @monkeybird69
      @monkeybird69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Instead of Mario growing when he gets the mushroom he logs onto the internet instead.

  • @officersoulknight6321
    @officersoulknight6321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is interesting, but are we not gonna question how this is potentially really expensive to produce? Not only are you growing a bunch of mushrooms from scratch but you're also electrically training them

  • @spartanwar1185
    @spartanwar1185 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Reminds me of an upgrade in a mod about something called "Sentinels" for Unreal Tournament 3
    They're basically turrets, but the upgrade in question is called a "Organic motor"
    The description for the upgrade mentions how it has to be fed canned dog food
    But it will otherwise have superior performance compared to mechanical motors
    Biomechanical things are so wild, dude

  • @starblaiz1986
    @starblaiz1986 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Alternative title - the coolest D&D tabletop map you've ever seen 😅

  • @Kevan808
    @Kevan808 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Fungus amung us 🍄

    • @Freakhealer
      @Freakhealer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're a fungy

    • @cedhome7945
      @cedhome7945 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's a song called that by the imperial pompadours ....

  • @henryb6009
    @henryb6009 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi very interesting investigation. And your mushroom PCB AI art work is very cool.

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome info! Thanks!

  • @eriksilva631
    @eriksilva631 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    A futuristic robot with a mycelium brain and quantum heart processor would be no joke.

    • @VariiCorvid
      @VariiCorvid 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Technically that would be a cyborg due to the wetware

  • @pinnacleexpress420
    @pinnacleexpress420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This video propbably couldve been a lot shorter given how it feels like half the script is "It's beyond me but there's some proof of concept" repeated in different ways, but that was pretty fascinating.

  • @reubynmcnaught9973
    @reubynmcnaught9973 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I literally walk past that computing lab on the way to the engineering block most days, wouldn't even know they're researching that funky stuff until I watched this 🍄🖥

  • @itsirkeel
    @itsirkeel หลายเดือนก่อน

    LOVE THIS.

  • @tsbrownie
    @tsbrownie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Wouldn't it be interesting if Ophiocordyceps became our future computers. It's potentially deadly traits being ignored for profits and usefulness. I think I saw a documentary on that titled "The Day Of The Triffids."

  • @Yabroproductions33
    @Yabroproductions33 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Ask the right mushroom
    it would have told you this itself
    Fungus been on this kick since day one

    • @Valentin_Teslov
      @Valentin_Teslov 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's kind of creepy. If this is the reason people see machine elves when on shrooms, maybe humans were just a stepping stone for future techno fungi to create themselves all along

    • @Yabroproductions33
      @Yabroproductions33 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Valentin_Teslovask the next mushrooms you encounter and see what they say.

  • @mekanik187
    @mekanik187 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cant wait to see those rigs

  • @KristofskiKabuki
    @KristofskiKabuki 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in Bristol and this is exactly the sort of thing I can imagine being researched here

  • @juliank475
    @juliank475 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Zapping mushrooms to force them to communicate with sophisticated technology. So we're in the fungal universe of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. And Am is a giant oyster mushroom.

    • @stavros222
      @stavros222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ok... wdym?

  • @jamesbannerman4804
    @jamesbannerman4804 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Star Trek Voyager, the ship has living tissue for their computers storage and processing, Star Trek leads the way again. LOL

    • @littlebuddha.co.
      @littlebuddha.co. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Star Gate Atlantis has an entire alien race that's recurrent in the series who uses living technology! I came to this comment section looking for anyone talking about it!
      The Wraith even use these face masks that look like they could be made of a crust fungus

  • @derekneil6238
    @derekneil6238 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Seems like a good idea for infrastructure/ transport computation. Plus likely not super easy to hack from a distance.

  • @francisfischer7620
    @francisfischer7620 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How fascinating!

  • @thespicemelange.1
    @thespicemelange.1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Now we need a mushroom-powered quantum computer. That shit will be insane. Thus unlocking the key to life itself. Now that sounds pretty trippy.

    • @ButtSnorkler9000
      @ButtSnorkler9000 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What do you even mean the key to life? You have to have an actual question to find an answer

    • @thespicemelange.1
      @thespicemelange.1 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ButtSnorkler9000 you want to ask me a question with that handle? You need to do some serious soul searching.

  • @dupirechristophe7703
    @dupirechristophe7703 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When you're tripping on mushrooms so you get the idea to give shrooms to your computer so you can trip together x'D

  • @vanquest5341
    @vanquest5341 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Diary entry 22: After landing on planet 210z, Bob enthusiastically began growing our computers.
    Some human from the future, probably.

  • @stefanroehling8439
    @stefanroehling8439 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the more dystophian outcomes are movies like Eden Log. If myzel can be placed in an symbiotic aspekt between mechanical components and nerv systems, without devouring both or one of both ends, it can be used as transmitter.

  • @ukdocdeath
    @ukdocdeath 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    After watching this i had to make sure it wasnt posted on the 1st April - then star trek discovery come to mind, amazing how star trek objects are becoming part of the real world.

  • @mishiou7244
    @mishiou7244 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Next thing we know we will have starships traveling through space powered by a mushroom network 😅

  • @agalah408
    @agalah408 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's why I like this channel. He's such a fun guy. (fungai?)

  • @dewy330
    @dewy330 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Officer,
    This isn't a grow room, it's my supercomputer.

    • @citricdemon
      @citricdemon 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This isn't a mud pit. It's an operating table!

  • @aqdrobert
    @aqdrobert 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Michael Burnham: I travelled back in time to inspire past generations into developing Spore Drive, Princess Peach.
    Luigi: Will you make lots of SPAGHETTI with mushrooms?

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Looks like someone started microdosing :)

  • @reddog-ex4dx
    @reddog-ex4dx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I personally welcome our new fungi overlords.

    • @Nefylym
      @Nefylym 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ... underlords? fungal lords? fungal ladies? wait no. now i'm traumatized

  • @ahegpbtrftcotu
    @ahegpbtrftcotu หลายเดือนก่อน

    Since about 2019 I've been excitedly following this. Mycelial processors could be an incredible, far more accessible alternative to quantum computing

  • @rampagephoenix1735
    @rampagephoenix1735 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Geez, thats impressive!! Imagine a highly advanced quantum computer that has this kind of fungal feature.....could you imagine the potential......

  • @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990
    @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So they CAN do some computing-type stuff if you're willing to jump over a LOT of hoops. But you know what you could do instead? Use normal computing technology. If you wanna interface with biology and see what you can do with that, the human brain is probably the way you want to go, not fungi. Best part of this video was all those photos of the fungi growing on computers. Someone had fun doing that.