Organoids is such a fun word to say.
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The Return of The Organoids
I also like to play around with it.
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?
Here’s a video that starts with a good general overview of brain organoids:
pffft good luck getting my brain organoids to do your bidding... I am deeply tarded
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It could be penis cells for all we know.
Worse at approximation but more deterministic.
And CEOs should love it since they only go up.
They could be guiding bombs with this technology and it would be immune to Electromagnetic attacks.
Stop giving them ideas.
it wouldn't* because the connections to the parts would still have wires which would fry the lil guys
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Begun, the Bone Wars have.
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"
From a read of that article, it appears that they are feeding it analog inputs, which would imply that it is producing analog outputs. I don't know if there is a way to evaluate floating point operations on an analog system. That said, my knowledge is very cursory, and someone will surely correct me.
Can it do backpropagation?
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.
It's a bunch of neurons that speak to a computer with a microelectrode array. So they "speak to" the neurons with electric impulses, and then "listen to" what they have to say. The computer it's connected to uses binary, but the neurons are somewhere in between. Yes, the change in electrical potential is analog, but neurons are typically in their "on" state, recovering from their "on" state, or just chilling out.
The brain is incredible because of the network of connections between neurons that store information. It'll be interesting to see if a small scale system like this can be used for anything larger scale.