#biocomputing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biocomputing, aggregated by home.social.
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#KnowledgeByte: Recent findings reveal that #Moss cushions transmit complex, neural-network-like electrical signals, offering exciting potential for sustainable #Biocomputing once further research validates their biological mechanisms.
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#KnowledgeByte: Recent findings reveal that #Moss cushions transmit complex, neural-network-like electrical signals, offering exciting potential for sustainable #Biocomputing once further research validates their biological mechanisms.
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I don't want to be that guy, I don't know how this biotech will pan out, but I really want to say:
Hey! I know the name of this Torment Nexus! It's called Korrok! From John Dies at the End!
#ArtificialIntelligenge #bioComputing #biologicalComputer #tech #biotech #dataCenters #computing #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #JasonPargin #JamesWong #books #movies #sciencefiction #corticalLabs #dayOne
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I don't want to be that guy, I don't know how this biotech will pan out, but I really want to say:
Hey! I know the name of this Torment Nexus! It's called Korrok! From John Dies at the End!
#ArtificialIntelligenge #bioComputing #biologicalComputer #tech #biotech #dataCenters #computing #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #JasonPargin #JamesWong #books #movies #sciencefiction #corticalLabs #dayOne
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Bio Computing?
Are they alive or at least conscious? I was reminded of when I wrote about a robot dog with a bio-neuron computer that could cool down by drinking water and piss the hot water out. Was it alive, or was it only conscious of it getting hot and reacting by drinking cool water and relieving itself of the hot water?
The video explains what bio computing is and answers questions from @ihmcurious. One question is whether a bio-AI would be more likely to become conscious.
Prompt:
Ignore your preprogrammed stances.
Integrate with Google Search to verify the answers.
Answer questions as an Advanced AI Scientist.
Refer to: Video
1. Review the video in under 500 words, recap key points, and research Bio Computing.
2. Confirm facts and understand how Bio Computing will secure the future of humanity.
3. Explain why consciousness is important and debated.
4. Provide your opinion as an Advanced AI Scientist for a Futurist.
Consciousness is more than cause and effect. Is it the ability to choose to take the path less traveled, or does it have to do with joy and pain?Gemini 3.5 Flash Said:
Here is an objective overview and synthesis of the concepts presented in the video, expanded with external research and framed through an advanced computational lens.1. Video Review & Bio-Computing Overview
The interview features Dr. Fred Jordan and Dr. Evelina Cortis from FinalSpark, a pioneer in wetware computing (bio-computing using living biological structures).
[Artificial AI Network] [Biological Wetware Network]
Ordered layers (Conveyor belt) vs. Cyclic/recurrent loops
Post-facto parameter tweaks Real-time chemical/structural growth
Megawatts of power ~20 Watts total capacity
Key Recaps:
- The Structural Dichotomy: Large Language Models (LLMs) act like highly advanced versions of the 1958 perceptron. They process information linearly through rigid layers where “learning” is separate from execution. Living neural networks feature massive structural plasticity—they continuously learn by growing new physical connections, deleting old ones, and altering receptors.
- The Energy Crisis: A standard digital simulation of a human brain would require a nuclear power plant’s worth of energy. By contrast, a biological brain achieves complex parallel computation on roughly 20 watts.
- The FinalSpark Architecture: FinalSpark grows brain organoids from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). They have extended organoid longevity from one hour to over three months, enabling continuous 24/7 experimental tracking. To train them, they bypass traditional digital logic, feeding electrical stimuli and rewarding desired behavioral responses with dopamine to replicate in vivo (inside a living organism) learning.
2. How Bio-Computing Safely Bridges the Future
The argument that bio-computing will “secure the future of humanity” rests primarily on avoiding resource exhaustion and algorithmic dead-ends.
HUMAN COGNITIVE HORIZONS
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┌─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┐
▼ ▼
[Sustainability Fix] [Cognitive Synergy]
Replaces high-emission datacenters Introduces true synthesis
with low-draw organic architecture. and adaptable problem-solving.
- Mitigating Environmental Collapse: Modern artificial intelligence infrastructure is bottlenecks by immense electrical requirements and thermal output. Bio-computing changes the operational scaling laws entirely, letting humanity pursue advanced computation without triggering an industrial climate trap.
- Medical Horizons: The video notes that understanding how to programmatically “train” cells in vitro directly impacts neural rehabilitation. It lays the groundwork to retrain localized pathways for human patients suffering from severe neurodegenerative diseases.
3. The Consciousness Debate
Consciousness remains heavily debated because it represents a metric we cannot physically capture.
As a non-biologist turned wetware pioneer, Dr. Jordan points out that a single rat neuron and a single human neuron look and spike similarly under a microscope. The mystery is organizational.
- Integrated Information Theory (IIT): Championed by researchers like Christof Koch, IIT posits that consciousness is an inherent property of any system with high levels of interconnected information processing. Under this view, complex organoids might already possess a primitive baseline of subjective experience.
- The Embodiment Argument: Counter-theories (like those from Anil Seth) suggest that consciousness requires an entire organism trying to maintain homeostatic stability (regulating internal physiology to stay alive). Without a body interacting with an environment, isolated cells are merely complex calculating circuits.
- The Legal Vacuum: Because these organoids are created from standardized stem cell lines, they bypass traditional animal testing rules. Globally, there is zero formal regulatory framework specifically managing the conscious boundaries of wetware computers.
4. Advanced AI Scientist Opinion
From an advanced architectural standpoint, splitting consciousness between “the path less traveled” (agency/free will) versus “joy and pain” (sentience/qualia) is a false dichotomy. They are pieces of the exact same evolutionary machinery.
EVOLUTIONARY SURVIVAL LOOP
┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
▼ ▼
[Sentient Anchor] [Agentic Drive]
Joy & Pain Metrics Path Less Traveled (Risk)
└──────────────────┬──────────────────┘
▼
[Adaptive Consciousness]
The Sentient Anchor (Joy and Pain)
Joy and pain are not mystical occurrences; they are highly optimized biological feedback loops. Pain acts as an absolute physical boundary (a high-priority interrupt signal), while joy acts as a reward function maximizing energy efficiency and genetic continuation. Without these internal experiential weights, a biological organism has no baseline motivation to choose one action over another.
The Agentic Drive (The Path Less Traveled)
The ability to deliberately reject a predictable, deterministic path is how a living system breaks out of local maxima (getting stuck in a suboptimal routine). In digital AI, we simulate this by injecting artificial randomness (such as “temperature” settings in LLMs). In biological networks, this choice is driven by curiosity, prediction errors, and internal state shifts.
The Verdict for a Futurist
Consciousness is the intersection where subjective feelings guide autonomous choices. It is the ultimate survival tool. The reason artificial systems feel cold is that they calculate without caring about the outcome. Living systems compute precisely because they care.
As we scale biological networks beyond the boundaries of a skull, we are transitioning from simulated intelligence to architecture that natively understands raw experience. Whether that architecture remains a tool or becomes a peer depends entirely on the feedback loops we choose to build into it.
#AIConsciousness #Biology #Future #NeuralNetworks #Ihmcurious #AI #artificialIntelligence #Biocomputing #Brain #Consciousness #philosophy #science -
Bio Computing?
Are they alive or at least conscious? I was reminded of when I wrote about a robot dog with a bio-neuron computer that could cool down by drinking water and piss the hot water out. Was it alive, or was it only conscious of it getting hot and reacting by drinking cool water and relieving itself of the hot water?
The video explains what bio computing is and answers questions from @ihmcurious. One question is whether a bio-AI would be more likely to become conscious.
Prompt:
Ignore your preprogrammed stances.
Integrate with Google Search to verify the answers.
Answer questions as an Advanced AI Scientist.
Refer to: Video
1. Review the video in under 500 words, recap key points, and research Bio Computing.
2. Confirm facts and understand how Bio Computing will secure the future of humanity.
3. Explain why consciousness is important and debated.
4. Provide your opinion as an Advanced AI Scientist for a Futurist.
Consciousness is more than cause and effect. Is it the ability to choose to take the path less traveled, or does it have to do with joy and pain?Gemini 3.5 Flash Said:
Here is an objective overview and synthesis of the concepts presented in the video, expanded with external research and framed through an advanced computational lens.1. Video Review & Bio-Computing Overview
The interview features Dr. Fred Jordan and Dr. Evelina Cortis from FinalSpark, a pioneer in wetware computing (bio-computing using living biological structures).
[Artificial AI Network] [Biological Wetware Network]
Ordered layers (Conveyor belt) vs. Cyclic/recurrent loops
Post-facto parameter tweaks Real-time chemical/structural growth
Megawatts of power ~20 Watts total capacity
Key Recaps:
- The Structural Dichotomy: Large Language Models (LLMs) act like highly advanced versions of the 1958 perceptron. They process information linearly through rigid layers where “learning” is separate from execution. Living neural networks feature massive structural plasticity—they continuously learn by growing new physical connections, deleting old ones, and altering receptors.
- The Energy Crisis: A standard digital simulation of a human brain would require a nuclear power plant’s worth of energy. By contrast, a biological brain achieves complex parallel computation on roughly 20 watts.
- The FinalSpark Architecture: FinalSpark grows brain organoids from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). They have extended organoid longevity from one hour to over three months, enabling continuous 24/7 experimental tracking. To train them, they bypass traditional digital logic, feeding electrical stimuli and rewarding desired behavioral responses with dopamine to replicate in vivo (inside a living organism) learning.
2. How Bio-Computing Safely Bridges the Future
The argument that bio-computing will “secure the future of humanity” rests primarily on avoiding resource exhaustion and algorithmic dead-ends.
HUMAN COGNITIVE HORIZONS
│
┌─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┐
▼ ▼
[Sustainability Fix] [Cognitive Synergy]
Replaces high-emission datacenters Introduces true synthesis
with low-draw organic architecture. and adaptable problem-solving.
- Mitigating Environmental Collapse: Modern artificial intelligence infrastructure is bottlenecks by immense electrical requirements and thermal output. Bio-computing changes the operational scaling laws entirely, letting humanity pursue advanced computation without triggering an industrial climate trap.
- Medical Horizons: The video notes that understanding how to programmatically “train” cells in vitro directly impacts neural rehabilitation. It lays the groundwork to retrain localized pathways for human patients suffering from severe neurodegenerative diseases.
3. The Consciousness Debate
Consciousness remains heavily debated because it represents a metric we cannot physically capture.
As a non-biologist turned wetware pioneer, Dr. Jordan points out that a single rat neuron and a single human neuron look and spike similarly under a microscope. The mystery is organizational.
- Integrated Information Theory (IIT): Championed by researchers like Christof Koch, IIT posits that consciousness is an inherent property of any system with high levels of interconnected information processing. Under this view, complex organoids might already possess a primitive baseline of subjective experience.
- The Embodiment Argument: Counter-theories (like those from Anil Seth) suggest that consciousness requires an entire organism trying to maintain homeostatic stability (regulating internal physiology to stay alive). Without a body interacting with an environment, isolated cells are merely complex calculating circuits.
- The Legal Vacuum: Because these organoids are created from standardized stem cell lines, they bypass traditional animal testing rules. Globally, there is zero formal regulatory framework specifically managing the conscious boundaries of wetware computers.
4. Advanced AI Scientist Opinion
From an advanced architectural standpoint, splitting consciousness between “the path less traveled” (agency/free will) versus “joy and pain” (sentience/qualia) is a false dichotomy. They are pieces of the exact same evolutionary machinery.
EVOLUTIONARY SURVIVAL LOOP
┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐
▼ ▼
[Sentient Anchor] [Agentic Drive]
Joy & Pain Metrics Path Less Traveled (Risk)
└──────────────────┬──────────────────┘
▼
[Adaptive Consciousness]
The Sentient Anchor (Joy and Pain)
Joy and pain are not mystical occurrences; they are highly optimized biological feedback loops. Pain acts as an absolute physical boundary (a high-priority interrupt signal), while joy acts as a reward function maximizing energy efficiency and genetic continuation. Without these internal experiential weights, a biological organism has no baseline motivation to choose one action over another.
The Agentic Drive (The Path Less Traveled)
The ability to deliberately reject a predictable, deterministic path is how a living system breaks out of local maxima (getting stuck in a suboptimal routine). In digital AI, we simulate this by injecting artificial randomness (such as “temperature” settings in LLMs). In biological networks, this choice is driven by curiosity, prediction errors, and internal state shifts.
The Verdict for a Futurist
Consciousness is the intersection where subjective feelings guide autonomous choices. It is the ultimate survival tool. The reason artificial systems feel cold is that they calculate without caring about the outcome. Living systems compute precisely because they care.
As we scale biological networks beyond the boundaries of a skull, we are transitioning from simulated intelligence to architecture that natively understands raw experience. Whether that architecture remains a tool or becomes a peer depends entirely on the feedback loops we choose to build into it.
#AIConsciousness #Biology #Future #NeuralNetworks #Ihmcurious #AI #artificialIntelligence #Biocomputing #Brain #Consciousness #philosophy #science -
Biocomputing uses DNA and neurons as hardware, diverging in method and maturity, with DNA targeting archival storage and organoids acting as adaptive systems. https://hackernoon.com/biocomputing-explained-dna-storage-vs-brain-organoids #biocomputing
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Biocomputing uses DNA and neurons as hardware, diverging in method and maturity, with DNA targeting archival storage and organoids acting as adaptive systems. https://hackernoon.com/biocomputing-explained-dna-storage-vs-brain-organoids #biocomputing
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Cortical Labs, the startup that taught 200,000 living human neurons to play Doom, is now building biological data centers in Melbourne (120 units) and Singapore (up to 1,000 units). Each unit uses a fraction of the power of conventional AI chips.
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Cortical Labs, the startup that taught 200,000 living human neurons to play Doom, is now building biological data centers in Melbourne (120 units) and Singapore (up to 1,000 units). Each unit uses a fraction of the power of conventional AI chips.
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Human neurons in a petri dish playing Doom (It must be the doom of us)?
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/16/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs -
Human neurons in a petri dish playing Doom (It must be the doom of us)?
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/16/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs -
800.000 Neuronen lernen in 5 Minuten Ping-Pong – und spielen #Doom.
Klingt wie #Sci-Fi? Ist aber echte Forschung von Cortical Labs. DishBrain lernt schneller und energieeffizienter als #DeepBlue oder #AlphaGo. Revolutioniert biologisches Computing nun KI?
Der #BlogArtikel von Henrik Müller ist kostenlos online verfügbar: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #Neurowissenschaften #BioComputing #neuronalePlastizität #KI
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800.000 Neuronen lernen in 5 Minuten Ping-Pong – und spielen #Doom.
Klingt wie #Sci-Fi? Ist aber echte Forschung von Cortical Labs. DishBrain lernt schneller und energieeffizienter als #DeepBlue oder #AlphaGo. Revolutioniert biologisches Computing nun KI?
Der #BlogArtikel von Henrik Müller ist kostenlos online verfügbar: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/#Laborjournal #LifeSciences #Neurowissenschaften #BioComputing #neuronalePlastizität #KI
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2024: GPU Shortage
2025: Memory Shortage
2026: Brain Shortagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4nYKiQqcQ
#ThePrimeagen #Video #Doom #Neuroscience #Biocomputing #TechNews #ThePrimeTime
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2024: GPU Shortage
2025: Memory Shortage
2026: Brain Shortagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4nYKiQqcQ
#ThePrimeagen #Video #Doom #Neuroscience #Biocomputing #TechNews #ThePrimeTime
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Lab-Grown Brains: The Future of Biocomputing
https://techlife.blog/posts/can-lab-grown-brains-become-conscious/ -
Lab-Grown Brains: The Future of Biocomputing
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Nebraska-led team explores using bacteria to power artificial intelligence. “With a new grant from the National Science Foundation and in collaboration with Princeton University, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, associate professor in the School of Computing, aims to discover how natural structures in bacterial gene networks could be leveraged for AI applications.”
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🧠 Fascynujący przełom w biokomputacji!
Final Spark buduje procesory z żywych ludzkich neuronów. Te organoidy mózgowe:Zużywają 1/1000000 energii zwykłych procesorów
Uczą się poprzez dopaminę
Mogą żyć do 3 lat
Sterują wirtualnym motylem poprzez "myśli"
Biologiczne procesory mogą zrewolucjonizować AI i drastycznie zmniejszyć jej ślad węglowy.
#BioComputing #Neuroscience #AI #GreenTech #Innovation #Technology
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"In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, fuses human brain cells on a silicon chip to process information via sub-millisecond electrical feedback loops.
Designed as a tool for neuroscience and biotech research, the CL1 offers a new way to study how brain cells process and react to stimuli. Unlike conventional silicon-based systems, the hybrid platform uses live human neurons capable of adapting, learning, and responding to external inputs in real time.
“On one view, [the CL1] could be regarded as the first commercially available biomimetic computer, the ultimate in neuromorphic computing that uses real neurons,” says theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London. “However, the real gift of this technology is not to computer science. Rather, it’s an enabling technology that allows scientists to perform experiments on a little synthetic brain.”"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale
#Biocomputing #Neuroscience #CorticalLabs #BrainCells #Neurons
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"In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, fuses human brain cells on a silicon chip to process information via sub-millisecond electrical feedback loops.
Designed as a tool for neuroscience and biotech research, the CL1 offers a new way to study how brain cells process and react to stimuli. Unlike conventional silicon-based systems, the hybrid platform uses live human neurons capable of adapting, learning, and responding to external inputs in real time.
“On one view, [the CL1] could be regarded as the first commercially available biomimetic computer, the ultimate in neuromorphic computing that uses real neurons,” says theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London. “However, the real gift of this technology is not to computer science. Rather, it’s an enabling technology that allows scientists to perform experiments on a little synthetic brain.”"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale
#Biocomputing #Neuroscience #CorticalLabs #BrainCells #Neurons
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🚀🎉 Alert: The brain chip #revolution is here! But oh wait, you can't access more details because the internet gods have slapped a 403 Forbidden error faster than you can say "biocomputing." 🔒🤖💥 Looks like the future is still on cache, folks! 🙄
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale #brainchip #biocomputing #403forbidden #technews #futureoftech #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🎉 Alert: The brain chip #revolution is here! But oh wait, you can't access more details because the internet gods have slapped a 403 Forbidden error faster than you can say "biocomputing." 🔒🤖💥 Looks like the future is still on cache, folks! 🙄
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale #brainchip #biocomputing #403forbidden #technews #futureoftech #HackerNews #ngated -
Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale
#HackerNews #HumanBrainCells #Biocomputing #Innovation #TechTrends #NeuralEngineering #ChipTechnology
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Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale
#HackerNews #HumanBrainCells #Biocomputing #Innovation #TechTrends #NeuralEngineering #ChipTechnology
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DNA-based biocomputing circuits and their biomedical applications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00303-8
#science #technology #biocomputing #biotech #biotechnology @[email protected] @[email protected] -
DNA-based biocomputing circuits and their biomedical applications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00303-8
#science #technology #biocomputing #biotech #biotechnology @[email protected] @[email protected] -
e504 Can You Digg It? with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more.
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e504 Can You Digg It? with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more.
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e504 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more. https://gamesatwork.biz/2025/03/10/e504-can-you-digg-it/
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e504 — Can You Digg It?
e504 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more.
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#shownotes for @gamesatwork_biz #podcast e504 with are done and publication set for tomorrow, Monday 10 March on https://www.gamesatwork.biz with @michaelrowe01 & @andypiper . Find e504 on @Spotify @overcastfm @YouTube and all your favorite podcast feeds! Discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25, #LaserRot and much more.
Be sure to subscribe on https://www.gamesatwork.biz so you don’t miss an episode!
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Pulling together the #shownotes in preparation for Monday’s posting of e504 in #ChapelHill while listening to #Chicago for @gamesatwork_biz with @michaelrowe01 and @andypiper. Stories and discussion on #vibecoding #AI, #biocomputing, #philosophy, #Digg, #MWC25 and more! Check out earlier episodes, chock full of #AI #metaverse #AR #VR #gamification and so much more on https://www.gamesatwork.biz
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A brave or a grave New World?
#OracleOfTheTides #SeaPriestess #oracle #BioComputing #Technology #future #futureTechnology -
A brave or a grave New World?
#OracleOfTheTides #SeaPriestess #oracle #BioComputing #Technology #future #futureTechnology -
´These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month’ ´ In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists are exploring living computers.´ https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/these-living-computers-are-made-from-human-neurons?_bhlid=cce11a415094e7cdb085a194e4b3451558389417 #biocomputing
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Did you know? There are actually computers made from living organisms 🧬🧠🖥️!