Google’s chip announcement prompts a wild thought about scanning brains into silicon
tekbog · x · 2026-07-21
A brief AGI-style thought experiment: after Google’s announcement about baking Gemini weights into a chip, the author wonders whether the same idea could one day apply to scanning the brain and “baking” it into silicon.
The post is speculative rather than factual, but it captures a common AGI theme: if model weights can be embedded in hardware, could human cognition eventually be treated the same way, with the option to run the chip or move the brain elsewhere in the future?
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