Computer Intelligence in the Brain: Organoid Intelligence
Parallel to recent developments in Machine Learning like GPT-4 a group has proposed using neural tissue, grown carefully to replicate the structures of an animal brain, to create a computing substrate. If AI is inspired from neurological systems, then what better way to compute than with a neurological system itself? The authors, who have gathered developments from computer science, electrical engineers, neurobiology and electrophysiology as well as pharmacology to create a new research project they call \”organoid Intelligence,\” propose a new initiative.
OI is an effort to promote brain organoids, which are tiny spherical mass of brain tissue that have been grown from stem cells. These organoids can be used for computation, drug testing and to model how a brain might function at a smaller scale. Organoids are a way to understand the brain. OI wants to use this knowledge to create neurobiological computing systems that can learn with less data, using less energy, than silicon hardware.
Two bioengineering breakthroughs have made it possible to develop organoids: induced pluripotent cells and 3D cell culture techniques.
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