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Researchers have created a "biocomputer" made up of lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that they say can perform tasks including voice recognition.The idea is to build a "bridge between AI and organoids," as coauthor and University of Indiana bioengineer Feng Guo told Nature, and leverage the efficiency and speed at which the human brain can process information.
Ultimately, the hope is to have brain-inspired biological computers perform tasks on behalf of conventional AI — while also providing scientists with an exciting new way to study the human brain.
Once the AI was trained on these responses, the researchers found that Brainowave was able to pinpoint the original speaker 78 percent of the time.
According to Nature, researchers are also excited to discover new ways to study the human brain, as well as as well as neurological disorders like Alzheimer's, by replicating its architecture in a lab setting.
However, scaling up their mini-brains to ones large enough to complete more complex tasks will likely prove difficult, as cultivating the cells is an expensive and laborious process.
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