{"id":178297,"date":"2023-12-14T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-ball-of-brain-cells-on-a-chip-can-learn-simple-speech-recognition-and-math"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T22:23:38","slug":"a-ball-of-brain-cells-on-a-chip-can-learn-simple-speech-recognition-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-ball-of-brain-cells-on-a-chip-can-learn-simple-speech-recognition-and-math","title":{"rendered":"A Ball of Brain Cells on a Chip Can Learn Simple Speech Recognition and Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-ball-of-brain-cells-on-a-chip-can-learn-simple-speech-recognition-and-math2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mini-brain functioned like both the central processing unit and memory storage of a supercomputer. It received input in the form of electrical zaps and outputted its calculations through neural activity, which was subsequently decoded by an AI tool.<\/p>\n<p>When trained on soundbites from a pool of people\u2014transformed into electrical zaps\u2014Brainoware eventually learned to pick out the \u201csounds\u201d of specific people. In another test, the system successfully tackled a complex math problem that\u2019s challenging for AI.<\/p>\n<p>The system\u2019s ability to learn stemmed from changes to neural network connections in the mini-brain\u2014which is similar to how our brains learn every day. Although just a first step, Brainoware paves the way for increasingly sophisticated hybrid biocomputers that could lower energy costs and speed up computation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mini-brain functioned like both the central processing unit and memory storage of a supercomputer. It received input in the form of electrical zaps and outputted its calculations through neural activity, which was subsequently decoded by an AI tool. When trained on soundbites from a pool of people\u2014transformed into electrical zaps\u2014Brainoware eventually learned to pick [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178297","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}