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How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it

By Bram Servais, PhD Candidate Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne

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 hardware.

These “biocomputers” are still in their early days. They can play simple games such as Pong, and perform…

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