{"id":160540,"date":"2023-03-17T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background"},"modified":"2023-03-17T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:22:34","slug":"176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background","title":{"rendered":"#176 Human organoids are new AI frontier; Listening to the big bang through the cosmic microwave background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/176-human-organoids-are-new-ai-frontier-listening-to-the-big-bang-through-the-cosmic-microwave-background.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brainoids \u2014 tiny clumps of human brain cells \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2363962-human-brain-cells-used-as-living-ais-to-solve-mathematical-equations\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">are being turned into living artificial intelligence machines<\/a>, capable of carrying out tasks like solving complex equations. The team finds out how these brain organoids compare to normal computer-based AIs, and they explore the ethics of it all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2363391-sickle-cell-disease-is-now-curable-but-the-treatment-is-unaffordable\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sickle cell disease<\/a> is now curable, thanks to a pioneering trial with CRISPR gene editing. The team shares the story of a woman whose life has been transformed by the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>We can now hear the sound of the afterglow of the big bang, the radiation in the universe known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/cosmic-microwave-background\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cosmic microwave background<\/a>. The team shares the eerie piece that has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25634181-100-how-sounds-from-space-are-revealing-otherwise-hidden-cosmic-phenomena\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> transposed for human ears<\/a>, named by researchers The Echo of Eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brainoids \u2014 tiny clumps of human brain cells \u2014 are being turned into living artificial intelligence machines, capable of carrying out tasks like solving complex equations. The team finds out how these brain organoids compare to normal computer-based AIs, and they explore the ethics of it all. Sickle cell disease is now curable, thanks to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160540","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}