{"id":104836,"date":"2020-04-06T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/this-startups-computer-chips-are-powered-by-human-neurons"},"modified":"2020-04-06T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:02:26","slug":"this-startups-computer-chips-are-powered-by-human-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/this-startups-computer-chips-are-powered-by-human-neurons","title":{"rendered":"This Startup\u2019s Computer Chips Are Powered by Human Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startups-computer-chips-are-powered-by-human-neurons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of right now, Cortical\u2019s mini-brains have less processing power than a dragonfly brain. The company is looking to get its mouse-neuron-powered chips to be capable of playing a game of \u201cPong,\u201d as CEO Hon Weng Chong told <em>Fortune, <\/em>following the footsteps of AI company DeepMind, which used the game to test the power of its AI algorithms back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are trying to do is show we can shape the behavior of these neurons,\u201d Chong told <em>Fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/03\/30\/startup-human-neurons-computer-chips\/\">A startup is building computer chips using human neurons<\/a> [<em>Fortune<\/em>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of right now, Cortical\u2019s mini-brains have less processing power than a dragonfly brain. The company is looking to get its mouse-neuron-powered chips to be capable of playing a game of \u201cPong,\u201d as CEO Hon Weng Chong told Fortune, following the footsteps of AI company DeepMind, which used the game to test the power of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104836","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}