>But perhaps something getting close to human intelligence
this isn't getting close to human intelligence. They're using about as many cells as a fruit fly has (of course not actually functioning like an animal brain) processing signals to play Doom. The treatment of a single farm chicken is about a few magnitudes more worrying than this.
I'm sorry to tell you that you're made out of human cells and I don't think you got consent from each brain cell before firing up the old boomer shooters.
At 200k, this application is already more neurons than a fruit fly (130k), but still within the same order of magnitude. It's an interesting question of "how many" should be considered problematic from an ethics standpoint, and I don't think that line of questioning should be ignored. If any of this research turns out useful, you can be sure to see it scale up.
this isn't getting close to human intelligence. They're using about as many cells as a fruit fly has (of course not actually functioning like an animal brain) processing signals to play Doom. The treatment of a single farm chicken is about a few magnitudes more worrying than this.
I'm sorry to tell you that you're made out of human cells and I don't think you got consent from each brain cell before firing up the old boomer shooters.