No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Two very different types of “computers” dominate the world today. The first is the type you’re likely reading this article on—machines powered by transistors and silicon that make our modern society ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The world’s first “code-deployable” biological computer is now for sale. The Cortical Labs ...

Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, image ...

I n February Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, announced that a programmer had taught one of its “biological ...

Princeton University researchers have developed 3D-MIND, a flexible electronic mesh that integrates directly into living 3D networks of brain cells. The system can monitor and stimulate neural ...

What is 3D-MIND?: A Princeton-built flexible 3D electronic mesh embeds within living brain cell networks to monitor and stimulate neural activity. Why it matters: It could lead to AI systems using far ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.