World’s first computer powered by human brain cells goes on sale
Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, describing it as a “body in a box” that holds the potential to revolutionise AI and robotics.
The computer uses lab-grown neurons that grow across a silicon chip, which allows them to send and receive electrical impulses.
An internal life support system of pumps, gas, and temperature controls keep the neurons alive for up to six months...
Cortical Labs said the first CL1 computers will be ready to ship to customers in June, with each unit costing around $35,000 (£27,000).
Interesting, but on the face of it, a computer costing $35,000, which needs life support and only lasts for up to 6 months doesn't sound like an unmissable deal, but scientists involve themselves is some weird projects.
Meanwhile Donald Trump's weird political opponents seem to be running around like headless chickens, as if life support for their neurons has wandered past its sell-by date too.
Maybe it's a weirdness pandemic.
6 comments:
They should at least make the owner responsible for the life-support controls, so the longer you keep it alive, the more value you get for your $35k.
They could call it a Tamagotchi.
Tim Stanley makes a good quip re Trump in this morning's Telegraph:
"a man who seems determined to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of peace"
Talking of weirdness I've just seen this quotation allegedly from Marx: he described life in a socialist society as a world of men able “to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner.”
It seems Herr Marx didn't know the time of day you milk cows. I do hope economists have noticed.
Fake AI - we're here already!
Sam - ah yes, Tamagotchi, I remember those. Maybe that's when the craziness really took off.
dearieme - ha ha that's a fine quite from Tim Stanley.
It sounds as if all that time spent in the British Museum didn't give Marx a particularly firm grasp of bucolic realities.
Tammly - it looks like it - grow your own answers.
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