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.
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
You do have a wonderful way with words!
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.
It’s all fun and games until we’re overrun by cybernetic goombas.
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.
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?
How long until mushrooms can play Doom?
You can play it on gut bacteria, so it seems possible.
Cool, it can run for US President next if that’s still a thing.
Actually, mycellium is probably very highly inteligent, if big enough, so it would probably be either great or terrible for humans.
Aroo!
Well, the current president already has a mushroom dick
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
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!
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
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.
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
Wow! Very interesting experience I bet! After such an event, I am sure that your outlook on life (and death) changes quite a bit.
Is it strange that I’m less concerned about mushrooms being able to talk than I am about mushrooms being able to see us?
Making the dystopia less boring one step at a time.
Let’s just hope that that fungus won’t start worshipping Gork and Mork any time soon.
“Trust the Fungus.” –Luigi
Think of the neat new ways techbros are going to be able to fuck us in 20 years.
[Mushroom global hive-mind] : “Good, good. It’s all going according to plan”
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
