{"id":102907,"date":"2020-02-26T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/artificial-and-biological-neurons-just-talked-over-the-internet"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T02:23:57","slug":"artificial-and-biological-neurons-just-talked-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/artificial-and-biological-neurons-just-talked-over-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-and-biological-neurons-just-talked-over-the-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, it\u2019s a simple network. But, it could be an important first step toward smarter and more adaptive prosthetics and brain-computer interfaces \u2014 and potentially lay the groundwork for a world where neural implants create <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/neuralink-suicide-human-mind\">real brain networks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn one side it sets the basis for a novel scenario that was never encountered during natural evolution, where biological and artificial neurons are linked together and communicate across global networks; laying the foundations for the Internet of Neuro-electronics,\u201d Themis Prodromakis, a nanotechnology researcher and director at the University of Southampton\u2019s Centre for Electronics Frontiers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/02\/brain-artificial-neurons.page\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, it brings new prospects to neuroprosthetic technologies, paving the way towards research into replacing dysfunctional parts of the brain with AI chips.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now, it\u2019s a simple network. But, it could be an important first step toward smarter and more adaptive prosthetics and brain-computer interfaces \u2014 and potentially lay the groundwork for a world where neural implants create real brain networks. \u201cOn one side it sets the basis for a novel scenario that was never encountered during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,418,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-internet","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}