COMPUTER GETS LIFE! Scientists have created a World’s 1st Living Computer that is made from 16 brains! It is a watershed moment for both computing and neuroscience as scientists have created the first-ever “living computer” involving the connection of 16 lab-grown human brain organoids in a revolutionary structure called, “Neuro platform.” This work has been made possible by the Swiss company called Final Spark, which has created a biocomputer that uses these small human heads to do computing with very little power compared to the usual electronic computers. ‘Biocomputer’ or ‘living computer’ This new computing technology is touted to revolutionize artificial intelligence because of its energy efficiency.
The main strength of the Neuro platform is the energy effectiveness of this approach. Conventional silicon-based computers complete operations within a short time utilizing a lot of power, such that the use of AI models is attributed to 3.5% of the world’s electric energy by the year 2030. In stark contrast, the brain organoids in Final Spark’s system, because of the patterned information process of biological neurons, uses a very small percentage of energy. Researchers assert that less than a million times the energy of current-day processors would be consumed by these bio-processors, which bodes well for the quest for environmentally-friendly computers.
COMPUTER GETS LIFE! :- The Neuro platform can integrate advanced AI capabilities and accommodate sophisticated computational models, organized around a grid of 16 organoids. Other users can also utilize the platform for conducting artificial intelligence-related work or for purposes of biological modeling, thus the platform is not limited to the enhancement of computing only but also the fields of medicine and neuroscience. These organoids are maintained in a nutrient-rich medium, while the electrodes implanted into them read brain signals and convert them into a digital format in a process referred to as “wetware computing.”
This hybridized approach with organic and inorganic facets will not only curtail the carbon emissions that are associated with compute-intensive processes at scale but will also create room for possibilities of building learning, adaptive AIs that are achievable owing to how efficient and flexible our brains work.
Even though the prospects are thrilling, the technology is still in its childhood stage and faces lots of restrictions such as ethical acquisition of human tissue, its treatment, long-term storage, and maintaining such sophisticated biocomputer systems. Final spark Imagine’s team is confident that in not so distant future the Neuro platform will allow to conduct experiments lasting up to 100 days non-stop and will increase its capabilities thereafter.
The construction of this explanatory system has initiated debates concerning the shape of things to come in computing and artificial intelligence. Popular opinion suggests that it might be possible to create artificial intelligence that resembles humans more closely and learns in a more organic manner; perhaps even learns to adapt by itself. The full-scale application is however far far away, the Neuro platform gives an insight into a bold futuristic vision of a world where living biological entities will form the core of computing architecture and processes, in stark unison with advanced biotechnology and digital computing architecture that creates non-ostensible digital intelligence that could incorporate even emotions of human beings.
At the present moment, the Neuro platform is available to institutions for about $500 a month, which avails them the capability to run controlled experiments over the internet. Wetware computing continues to has many more paths left to explore, but with the increased energy concerns that come with the exponential growth of AIs, solutions such as the Final Spark biocomputer will most likely feature, making a sustainable model of computing – a technological impossibility of the yore, even more plausible than it has ever been.
This advancement in technology changes the narrative of future computers as it envisions the use of human nerves cells together with other digital technologies in providing solutions and computational power that has never been achieved before. The scientific community is keen on any further developments because such biocomputers will new exist not just for providing energy for electronics but also where interaction is almost “animation” such as in advanced artificial intelligence systems, nimbly walking the worlds of machine and life.
🚨WORLD'S FIRST 'LIVING COMPUTER' RUNS ON 16 LAB-GROWN BRAINS
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Swiss firm Final Spark launched Neuroplatform, using 16 lab-grown brain organoids for computational tasks, consuming a million times less power than silicon chips.
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