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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

eh.. I see the taunts much more likely being "his dad's a techbro"

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think that artificial wombs will be quite good for society.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

We second this, as a trans woman, it would be really nice to actually have a child like any other woman even if it's through external means, or for women who simply don’t want/cant carry a child safely or are of parents who cant conceive/aren’t about to convince easily.

So... We're not getting the Terminator apocalypse? It's going to be The Matrix apocalypse after all?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The movie is called "the pod generation". Makes sure you read those terms of service...

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

I don't claim to be an expert on the endocrine system. But I know enough to know it's the most complicated system in the body. Possibly more complicated than the brain (my area of expertise).

And only recently did scientists figure out how to high jack the endocrine system for weight loss and not without plenty of side effects.

So in order for a baby to come to term, it must be exposed to different hormones , at different levels, at different times that come from the mother.

We can't produce all of those hormones. We can't even currently determine all of hormone needs of a fetus. So there is no way to meet these needs. Not to mention the protein needs. Again, many of which are made by the mother. And can't be synthetic.

We can grow an embryo in a container for quite a while. weeks. Maybe even a few months.

Sure, you can attach it to a roomba with temperature control.

But that's not the same as being able to grow a baby to term.

[–] Muffindrake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Chinese propaganda slop. Nothing substantial to see here. I don't even know why this is not immediately deleted by mods.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm not a brain surgeon. I'm not even in medicine.
Cog neuro.

But my point was I know a lot about a complex system. And even compared to it, the endocrine system looks insanely more complex.

But also that clip was pretty funny. I'll save it back for the next time I sound pretentious.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We just need something "good enough", it doesn't need to be fully developed, just to grow up enough to mop some floors, maybe pick some items in an amazon warehouse

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Brave New World vibes

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

All these related AI claims like "AI will cure cancer" or anything related to AI solving otherwise unsolved scientific problems are always hilarious. Curing cancer or any other disease requires us to fully understand the biological mechanisms of the disease enough to then even attempt to affect it with a drug.

AI learns and does its thing via input data from human knowledge and our current understanding. How can AI possibly gain an understanding of the disease mechanism or biological/biochemical system beyond that which humans understand? Not to mention it can't perform any sort of experiments to even test an idea.

Sure I can appreciate it speeding up certain analyses that are otherwise tedious to do ourselves, but it's never going to spit out some magic bullet cure

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Agree. And also. Scientists have been using and running statistical software analysis since like the late 70s. Everyone acts like we don't have tried and true methods already.

Some machine learning might be useful though in research but idk if it's fair to call it "ai". Idk it depends on your definition.

Actually in the research I do, I was looking into papers that measured a lot more variables than what is commonly done. (Usually two things are compared) And the authors used a formula to determine interactive effects based on which factors aligned or didn't align and by how much.

This type of statistics is close to how ai works as it gives "weights" to different inputs.

But this was a method the authors came up with and they fully disclosed how it worked and acknowledged it was only one of many approaches to determining these interactive effects.


The research I'm referring to was about vision. Accommodation and vergence. Which function together. And you can manipulate them so they don't match and see which one has a stronger influence on the perception of depth. However, many other factors effect depth perception. But it's nearly impossible to study how these each contribute when multiples other factors are present. Some matching the true depth. Some giving an incorrect cue. Which cue, when wrong, overrides the correct one? If two matching cure are present, is there one cue that's wrong, but has a stronger impact on the perception ?

These things are difficult to determine without literally thousands of studies.

[–] redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 4 points 6 hours ago

Aside from the obvious technological barriers to achieve this, are they going to turn them into soylent green when they're no longer useful and old?

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Newhere@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

At least More natural 🤣

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Wasn't this a thing in both the matrix and dune?

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Finally, I can clone a Duncan!

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Cool, now we can make orphans with technology!

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Can the robots crush them too or does that require different robots?

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

Or, you know, not put mothers through the painful, dangerous, and potentially lethal ordeal known as pregnancy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, but this is Chinese technology, so it can only be used for evil

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'll never forgive China for inventing gun powder

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I'll never forgive China for inventing China.

(Jk btw love everyone except fascists)

Love everyone except fascists = Leef Hehehe

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[–] Beangut@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Hopefully some bright mind will be able to merge this with the crushing machine and we can enter a new golden age of technology.

[–] dregan@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you had told me 30 years ago that China would be "Brave New World" and the US would be "1984" I would have thought that you got it backwards.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

30 years, yes, but for the past 15 or so it's been clear that China is pulling way ahead in every metric. I think home ownership has been in the 90s% for a long time. Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan, it was clear where this train was headed, capitalism will always end in fascism.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The Hallmark of the Maoist Revolution was guaranting every citizen owned the land they lived on.

Also what kicked off the Tianamen Square riots. Deng's privatization reforms went against the Maoist principles of public ownership, in pursuit of a modern urban industrial model. And the public backlash erupted into street fighting in the capital that killed tens of thousands of people.

Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan

A bit early to close the book on American Empire. It took over a century for the UK to come off it's Victorian Era peak. Along the way, they created modern computers and jet engines, which they used to commit multiple genocides.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Does it have GPU datacenters? No?
Then not clanker.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is a promising way to end surrogacy abuse in the 3rd world. I hope that future is realized.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

better than a clicker

[–] Stolas@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Wish my mother was a clanker.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago
[–] sangeteria@lemmy.ml 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As a gay guy I'd love if this were real and widely available. I would be able to become a father, but not have to navigate the moral minefields of surrogacy and adoption

[–] Newhere@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

And here is no issues of morality 🤣

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

It is just a concept right now. It has not yet delivered any live births.

"Despite optimism, experts state that the technology is still far from full implementation." https://thaitimes.com/a-robot-to-give-birth-the-chinese-announcement-that-shakes-the-world

The same proposed robot went viral in 2025 but was entirely fake: https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/pregnancy-robot-from-china-is-fake-but-is-the-technology-behind-it-possible

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I'm sickened by how many "flawed trials" are going to result out of such a thing before it "succeeds."

Even as a goal, this is so wrong on every level. The stuff of nightmares.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Why yes women having to carry pregnancies for nine months and then having to go through the pains of giving birth is a good thing we should not relieve them of that burden even when technology allows that thank you for asking.

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