Lab-grown ‘brain’ made of late composers’ blood cells creates new music posthumo

[Analog Kid]

(The title comes straight from this page)

This set my BS-o-meter a twitchin'. Sure, it's apparently just an "art" exhibit.
But I'm sure some people will conclude that those pointy-headed scientists have actually succeeded in creating an actual functioning human brain that can compose music.

(The exhibition is called "Revivification".)

[TimFox]

H P Lovecraft was perhaps the first author to note serious problems resulting from successful re-animation.
Meanwhile, I always assumed that deceased musicians were decomposing...

[jpanhalt]

This is so much BS.  Why not discuss Deep Space Nine or extraterrestrial invasions?  Admittedly, it is just about a fake show.  How about all the other Sci Fi fiction as dodgy technology?

[Simon]

so they have created a random number generator that may pass as "avant-guarde".

[TimFox]

At Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater in 1993, I saw a production of the stage play “Ghost in the Machine” by David Gilman, not to be confused with other plays, films, or games with the same title.
The basic plot: a musicologist claims to have found a 19-note excerpt of “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” in the output of a random-number generator.

[jpanhalt]

I tested this question, "How long would it take an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of keyboards to type all the world's information." (Infinite Monkey Problem)

Google AI said an infinite amount of time.

Grik AI said: "An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards would, in theory, produce all possible strings of text instantly. This is because infinity implies an unbounded, simultaneous generation of every conceivable combination of characters." 

I am beginning to like Grok much better.

With regard to regenerated brain, regenerative medicine has been around for quite awhile.  George Michalopoulos was the first to grow 3D liver in culture.  That was more than 30 years ago.  It has fabulous potential, and its rewards are already part of modern medicine. 

Science fiction, as presented in this thread, on the other hand, is a waste of time.  Why is it being discussed here?  Perhaps we should discuss all the dodgy technology put forth by the American  CDC and NIH during Covid?  (I would object to that as well.  This is just not the place.)

[TimFox]

The “infinite typing monkeys” question should include the required observers who need to distinguish “to be or not to be” from “dooby-dooby-do” in the output stream.

[Analog Kid]

Science fiction, as presented in this thread, on the other hand, is a waste of time.  Why is it being discussed here?  Perhaps we should discuss all the dodgy technology put forth by the American CDC and NIH during Covid?  (I would object to that as well.  This is just not the place.)

Wellll, since you seem to object to my even bringing this up here for some obstinate reason of yours, I think this is germane to this sub-forum not because the "experiment" has any intrinsic value at all--it doesn't and clearly belongs in the realm of SF as you say--but because this will inevitably be seen, by those of the more gullible sensibility, as Real Science, and by some others as an actual instance of reviviology^[1]. Like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Making it, ipso facto, Dodgy Technology.

[1] Which BTW plays straight into the current "AI" playbook by proposing that that blob of resurrected cells can actually produce some intelligent output.

[Analog Kid]

The “infinite typing monkeys” question should include the required observers who need to distinguish “to be or not to be” from “dooby-dooby-do” in the output stream.

Yes.
But with "AI" in the inspector's seat, it'd be monkeys all the way down.

[Analog Kid]

The “infinite typing monkeys” question should include the required observers who need to distinguish “to be or not to be” from “dooby-dooby-do” in the output stream.

Yes, but even that latter would be something: cue scene of monkey dressed as Sinatra drinking a cocktail with the rest of the Rat Pack.

[Wallace Gasiewicz]

This is silly, everyone knows that dead music authors decompose, not compose.

[TimFox]

See my first reply to this topic, above.

[Wallace Gasiewicz]

Yea, I should have read everything more carefully.