No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Two very different types of “computers” dominate the world today. The first is the type you’re likely reading this article on—machines powered by transistors and silicon that make our modern society ...

Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, image ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The world’s first “code-deployable” biological computer is now for sale. The Cortical Labs ...

Princeton University researchers have developed 3D-MIND, a flexible electronic mesh that integrates directly into living 3D networks of brain cells. The system can monitor and stimulate neural ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...

I n February Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, announced that a programmer had taught one of its “biological ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

New findings reveal that certain areas of the brain influence how neurons transmit signals and control their range.