Frank Feather
Published in General News.
🔴 hashtagWorld‘s hashtagFirst hashtagBio–hashtagComputer
🔶️ Australian biotech company Cortical Labs has just launched the first-ever bio-computer. It runs on hashtaghuman hashtagneurons integrated directly into the machine.
🔶️ Called CL1, this bio-computer doesn’t contain pieces of an actual brain but uses hashtagorganoids, miniature lab-grown replicas of human organs. These neurons are cultivated from stem cells “programmed” to develop into clusters that mimic the workings of the human hashtagcerebral hashtagcortex.
🔶️ The neurons grow on hashtagsilicon hashtagchips fitted with electrodes that both send and receive electrical impulses. These signals create a direct link between the biological brain and the digital system, allowing neurons to adapt to their virtual environment and “communicate” naturally with the computer.
🔶️ And because they’re made of living cells, they can evolve and reorganize on their own — just like the human brain does when it learns. This means a biological system can hold and process vastly more data. In essence, these bio-computers operate more like hashtagartificial hashtagneural hashtagnetworks in hashtagAI — systems designed to imitate the brain’s remarkable ability to learn and adapt.
🔶️ For sure, biological technology is set to transform everything from hashtagrobotics to hashtagAI — and perhaps, one day, even what it means to be alive. I forecast that hashtagHumanoids will have human brains.