{"id":168253,"date":"2023-07-24T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T01:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-to-merge-human-brain-cells-with-ai-secures-national-defence-funding"},"modified":"2023-07-24T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T01:25:34","slug":"research-to-merge-human-brain-cells-with-ai-secures-national-defence-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-to-merge-human-brain-cells-with-ai-secures-national-defence-funding","title":{"rendered":"Research to merge human brain cells with AI secures national defence funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-to-merge-human-brain-cells-with-ai-secures-national-defence-funding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new research program, led by Associate Professor Adeel Razi, from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, in collaboration with Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs, involves growing around 800,000 brain cells living in a dish, which are then \u201ctaught\u201d to perform goal-directed tasks. Last year the brain cells\u2019 ability to perform a simple tennis-like computer game, Pong, received global attention for the team\u2019s research.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Monash University-led research into growing human brain cells onto silicon chips, with new continual learning capabilities to transform machine learning, has been awarded almost $600,000 AUD in the prestigious National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program.<\/p>\n<p>According to Associate Professor Razi, the research program\u2019s work using lab-grown brain cells embedded onto silicon chips, \u201cmerges the fields of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create programmable biological computing platforms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe new research program, led by Associate Professor Adeel Razi, from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, in collaboration with Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs, involves growing around 800,000 brain cells living in a dish, which are then \u201ctaught\u201d to perform goal-directed tasks. Last year the brain cells\u2019 ability to perform a simple tennis-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,47,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168253","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}