{"id":168207,"date":"2023-07-24T04:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-working-on-merging-ai-with-human-brain-cells"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:23:35","slug":"scientists-working-on-merging-ai-with-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-working-on-merging-ai-with-human-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Working on Merging AI With Human Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-working-on-merging-ai-with-human-brain-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers just got a $600,000 grant from Australia\u2019s Office of National Intelligence to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with Melbourne-based startup Cortical Labs, the team has already successfully demonstrated how a cluster of roughly 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish is <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/brain-cells-play-pong\" class=\"\">capable of playing a game of \u201cPong<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is to merge biology with AI, something that could forge new frontiers for machine learning tech for self-driving cars, autonomous drones, or delivery robots \u2014 or at least that\u2019s what the government is hoping to accomplish with its investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers just got a $600,000 grant from Australia\u2019s Office of National Intelligence to study ways of merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence. In collaboration with Melbourne-based startup Cortical Labs, the team has already successfully demonstrated how a cluster of roughly 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish is capable of playing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1488,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-drones","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168207","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=168207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}