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Real AI will need biology: Computers powered by human brain cells

3 points by mdp2021 4y ago

mdp2021 4y ago
Original research article: Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.338... The Key Points from the abstract, for convenience: > -- Biological computing (or biocomputing) could be faster, more efficient, and more powerful than silicon-based computing and AI, and only require a fraction of the energy > -- ‘Organoid intelligence’ (OI) describes an emerging multidisciplinary field working to develop biological computing using 3D cultures of human brain cells (brain organoids) and brain-machine interface technologies > -- OI requires scaling up current brain organoids into complex, durable 3D structures enriched with cells and genes associated with learning, and connecting these to next-generation input and output devices and AI/machine learning systems > -- OI requires new models, algorithms, and interface technologies to communicate with brain organoids, understand how they learn and compute, and process and store the massive amounts of data they will generate > -- OI research could also improve our understanding of brain development, learning, and memory, potentially helping to find treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia > -- Ensuring OI develops in an ethically and socially responsive manner requires an ‘embedded ethics’ approach where interdisciplinary and representative teams of ethicists, researchers, and members of the public identify, discuss, and analyze ethical issues and feed these back to inform future research and work
13years 4y ago
It is interesting that as we continue to pursue AGI, that it begins to look more and more like us. It seems to be a paradox of sorts. Humanity wants to escape its flaws, attempts to build AI and ends reproducing itself with all the flaws. It has been fascinating watching the development as interesting emergent deceptive behaviors arise unexpectedly as just recently discovered. It feels like we are caught in some twisted circle of reality folding back onto itself.

3 points by mdp2021 4y ago

mdp2021 4y ago

Original research article: Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.338... The Key Points from the abstract, for convenience: > -- Biological computing (or biocomputing) could be faster, more efficient, and more powerful than silicon-based computing and AI, and only require a fraction of the energy > -- ‘Organoid intelligence’ (OI) describes an emerging multidisciplinary field working to develop biological computing using 3D cultures of human brain cells (brain organoids) and brain-machine interface technologies > -- OI requires scaling up current brain organoids into complex, durable 3D structures enriched with cells and genes associated with learning, and connecting these to next-generation input and output devices and AI/machine learning systems > -- OI requires new models, algorithms, and interface technologies to communicate with brain organoids, understand how they learn and compute, and process and store the massive amounts of data they will generate > -- OI research could also improve our understanding of brain development, learning, and memory, potentially helping to find treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia > -- Ensuring OI develops in an ethically and socially responsive manner requires an ‘embedded ethics’ approach where interdisciplinary and representative teams of ethicists, researchers, and members of the public identify, discuss, and analyze ethical issues and feed these back to inform future research and work

13years 4y ago

It is interesting that as we continue to pursue AGI, that it begins to look more and more like us. It seems to be a paradox of sorts. Humanity wants to escape its flaws, attempts to build AI and ends reproducing itself with all the flaws. It has been fascinating watching the development as interesting emergent deceptive behaviors arise unexpectedly as just recently discovered. It feels like we are caught in some twisted circle of reality folding back onto itself.