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In a development that could challenges the boundaries of technology and biology, an Australian startup has unveiled the world's first commercial biological computer, running on living human cells.
The CL1, developed by Melbourne-based Cortical Labs, fuses human stem cell-derived neurons with silicon, creating a new class of AI known as "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" (SBI), capable of learning and adapting faster than standard silicon-based AI, the company says, while consuming significantly less energy.
"Unlike using artificial neural networks, we grow our real biological neurons into networks, onto computer chips," founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, Dr Hon Weng Chong, told Reuters at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
"We take blood or skin, and we can transform them into stem cells and from stem cells into brain cells or neurons that we then use them for compute and intelligence," Hon said. The neurons grow on a silicon chip with tiny electrical contacts connecting them to the digital hardware.
The unit has an artificial life support system to keep the cells healthy, including pumps instead of a heart, a feeding reservoir, filters instead of kidneys and oxygen and CO2 gas and waste management system.
www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca
In a development that could challenges the boundaries of technology and biology, an Australian startup has unveiled the world's first commercial biological computer, running on living human cells.
The CL1, developed by Melbourne-based Cortical Labs, fuses human stem cell-derived neurons with silicon, creating a new class of AI known as "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" (SBI), capable of learning and adapting faster than standard silicon-based AI, the company says, while consuming significantly less energy.
"Unlike using artificial neural networks, we grow our real biological neurons into networks, onto computer chips," founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, Dr Hon Weng Chong, told Reuters at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
"We take blood or skin, and we can transform them into stem cells and from stem cells into brain cells or neurons that we then use them for compute and intelligence," Hon said. The neurons grow on a silicon chip with tiny electrical contacts connecting them to the digital hardware.
The unit has an artificial life support system to keep the cells healthy, including pumps instead of a heart, a feeding reservoir, filters instead of kidneys and oxygen and CO2 gas and waste management system.
World's first computer running on living human brain cells
The unit has an artificial life support system to keep the cells healthy.
www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca
