A light micrograph of a brain organoid NIAID, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
The study of tiny spheres of human brain cells grown in a dish, known as organoids, is currently one of the hottest fields in neuroscience, with the potential to shed light on human brain development and neurological conditions. Now, computer scientists are hooking them up to electrodes in the hope of creating a new kind of artificial intelligence, based on biology. Brett Kagan at Cortical Labs in Melbourne, Australia, says his firm’s first goal for the emerging idea of “organoid intelligence” is …
