Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue

Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue

Most computers run on microchips, but what if we've been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool?

An emerging Australian company has introduced the world’s first commercial biological computer that works with living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress this week, describing it as a “body in a box” that has the potential to revolutionize artificial intelligence and [...]

Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue - Tech and Science Post

Most computers run on microchips, but what if we’ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool? As crazy as it sounds, a future in which humans are the ones doing the computing may be closer than we think. In an article published in IEEE Access, Yo Kobayashi from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at the University of Osaka demonstrates that living tissue can…