I went to the Goto Copenhagen conference a few days ago and was quite taken aback by a keynote by Oshi Agabi. His company Koniku was developing what they call "

I went to the Goto Copenhagen conference a few days ago and was quite taken aback by a keynote by Oshi Agabi. His company Koniku was developing what they call "neurotech" - chipsets composed of actual biological neurons that could be programmed. He was showing these various prototypes of a product they are developing that is used to detect smells. It's a little box that keeps a certain stable temperature. Inside the box, they connected cells with various taste receptors to this synthetic "brain", also modifying the DNA in the smell receptor cells to be hypereffecient in the process. It seemed liked they could train these networks in a similar way to machine learning, but they had trouble remembering over time, so now they were experimenting with using neurotransmitters (emulating feelings) to persist the changes. He said their customers were various American 3-letter agencies. Their website is at https://koniku.com/ https://koniku.com/ if you're curious.