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.
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
Juffo-Wup is the power of life... hot warmth in the cold Void. It flows through all things, binding them together, making them one. You are Non-Juffo-Wup, you cannot understand.
Mushroom Robot Army vs OpenAI Robot Army... whose side are you on?
I, for one, welcome our new fungus overlords.
Humans lose anyway.
Glory to the human-mushroom-hybrids.
Mushroom Intelligence vs AI vs Humanity is the RTS I didn’t know I wanted
Ngl, it would be good to have 40k orc army (fungi-infected super soldiers) on our side. That is, if siding with orc is ever possible.
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.
[Mushroom global hive-mind] : "Good, good. It's all going according to plan"
Cool, it can run for US President next if that’s still a thing.
Aroo!
Actually, mycellium is probably very highly inteligent, if big enough, so it would probably be either great or terrible for humans.
Well, the current president already has a mushroom dick
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 on people?
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.
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
What was that 70s movie?
Night of triffels? Or something?
Night of truffles will be the parody version
Getting revenge on those pigs for digging up their cousins.
Anyone who has seen mushrooms grow and multiply knows this is some next level scary shit
So, this is real. Very cool.
Think of the neat new ways techbros are going to be able to fuck us in 20 years.
Yet another scary mushroom dick.
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