{"id":169210,"date":"2023-08-07T18:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/australian-military-is-funding-a-computer-chip-merged-with-human-brain-cells"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:28:30","slug":"australian-military-is-funding-a-computer-chip-merged-with-human-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/australian-military-is-funding-a-computer-chip-merged-with-human-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Australian military is funding a computer chip merged with human brain cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ksLuRoEq6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/its-the-news-reimagined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>subscribing here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Australian military is funding a project to grow intelligent \u201cmini-brains\u201d in petri dishes. The goal is to use these \u201cDishBrains\u201d to design better AIs \u2014 and, eventually, even combine the two, creating AIs merged with processing features of human brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>By creating just the right conditions, scientists can coax stem cells into growing into \u201corganoids,\u201d three-dimensional tissues that resemble the structure and function of different organs \u2014 even brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Thursday morning by subscribing here. The Australian military is funding a project to grow intelligent \u201cmini-brains\u201d in petri dishes. The goal is to use these \u201cDishBrains\u201d to design better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169210","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=169210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}