{"id":179823,"date":"2024-01-04T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/cyborg-computer-combining-ai-and-human-brain-cells-really-works"},"modified":"2024-01-04T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T21:26:54","slug":"cyborg-computer-combining-ai-and-human-brain-cells-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/cyborg-computer-combining-ai-and-human-brain-cells-really-works","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg computer combining AI and human brain cells really works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyborg-computer-combining-ai-and-human-brain-cells-really-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new biohybrid computer combining a \u201cbrain organoid\u201d and a traditional AI was able to perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy \u2014 demonstrating the potential for human biology to one day boost our computing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background:<\/strong> The human brain is the most energy efficient \u201ccomputer\u201d on Earth \u2014 while a supercomputer needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/blogs\/taking-measure\/brain-inspired-computing-can-help-us-create-faster-more-energy-efficient\">20 <em>mega <\/em>watts of power<\/a> to process more than a quintillion calculations per second, your brain can do the equivalent with just 20 watts (a megawatt is 1 million watts).<\/p>\n<p>This has given researchers the idea to try boosting computers by combining them with a three-dimensional clump of lab-grown human brain cells, known as a brain organoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new biohybrid computer combining a \u201cbrain organoid\u201d and a traditional AI was able to perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy \u2014 demonstrating the potential for human biology to one day boost our computing capabilities. The background: The human brain is the most energy efficient \u201ccomputer\u201d on Earth \u2014 while a supercomputer needs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1499,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179823","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}