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 ...

A cluster of rat neurons, grown on a chip in a Japanese laboratory, just learned to generate a sine wave on command. Across ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities - ...

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.