World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip

So we’re starting to get to the point where its theoretically possible for computers to get real organic viruses? “Sorry boss I cant work today my computer caught Covid and coughed on me so now I have it too :(”

Are homeless people going to start mysteriously disappearing now

IIRC these organoids also die after somewhere around 100 days of hypoxia, because they have yet to be able to construct a proper circulatory system for them.

Is this legit? This is the first time I've heard of human neurons used for such a purpose. Kind of surprised that's legal. Instinctively, I feel like a "human brain organoid" is close enough to a human that you cannot wave away the potential for consciousness so easily. At what point does something like this deserve human rights?

I notice that the paper is published in Frontiers, the same journal that let the notorious AI-generated giant-rat-testicles image get published. They are not highly regarded in general.

I'm concerned about what kind of hardware is sold on tomshardware

Turns out the origin of borgs was actually earth!

Organoids is such a fun word to say.

Article claims they are human brain organoids, doesn't say where the source of them is. Are these grown, like most other neural computing systems, or are they actually taking matter from a human brain?

Nice, two more and it'll make a fine president

Some cells get taken from you and turned into stem cells.

These are converted into brain cells, and nerve cells, on a chip that represents the scaffolding, interface, and connectivity.

Then the whole 'organ-device' gets surgically installed into your brain, and through gene therapy, the brain cells grow into, connect with and network into your existing tissue.

It could be penis cells for all we know.

We're getting closer to the Imperium of Man every day.

If this works, it's noteworthy. I don't know if similar results have been achieved before because I don't follow developments that closely, but I expect that biological computing is going to catch a lot more attention in the near-to-mid-term future. Because of the efficiency and increasingly tight constraints imposed on humans due to environmental pressure, I foresee it eventually eclipse silicon-based computing.

FinalSpark says its Neuroplatform is capable of learning and processing information

They sneak that in there as if it's just a cool little fact, but this should be the real headline. I can't believe they just left it at that. Deep learning can not be the future of AI, because it doesn't facilitate continuous learning. Active inference is a term that will probably be thrown about a lot more in the coming months and years, and as evidenced by all kinds of living things around us, wetware architectures are highly suitable for the purpose of instantiating agents doing active inference.

"brain organoid" sounds like an insult.

What's the FLOPs of this thing? Without this crucial info, we can't know if it's useless for training AIs or not. Training cost so much in terms of energy because the machines they use are beasts in terms of performance.

Can it do backpropagation?

As if tech isn't enough of a hyper specialized mess already now we're throwing biologists into the mix. "Sorry we need to wait for the registered nurse to fix your machine I'm not authorized to administer meds through the CPU's IV"

I'm confused. I assume they somehow still use electric signals? Do they still compute in binary? How does that work exactly?

Though, if this could reach a product state that's similar to silicon based processors, and the power consumption argument is true, then this could revolutionize the entire digital age.