A few years ago, Cortical Labs announced that it had trained about 800,000 cells cultured on a computer chip to play “Pong,” ...

A biological computer using human neurons learns Doom within 1 week, highlighting rapid adaptive learning and potential ...

Staff at Cortical Labs' new data center, powered by human neurons, must replace cerebrospinal fluid daily to maintain the ...

To keep the human brain cell-powered computers running, technicians constantly replenish their stores of cerebrospinal fluid.

Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into ...

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) surges, securing power has emerged as a critical challenge. Amid this, a novel attempt to build a "biological data center" using human brain cells has ...

The company refers to this approach as “wetware,” an unsettling new take on software and hardware terminology. Simply put, the computers send electrical signals to neurons derived from human blood ...

Australian biotech group, Cortical Labs, is using living human brain cells to power AI data centers, training these neuron-powered microchips to play video games.

Scientists placed 200,000 living human brain cells on a microchip and showed it how to play a shoot-em-up video game — and are now using the dystopian technology to power AI data centers.

At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the ...

They’re not very good at it, apparently. Fancy that ...

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...