{"id":220032,"date":"2025-08-13T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-cells-learn-faster-than-machine-learning-research-reveals"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:03:24","slug":"brain-cells-learn-faster-than-machine-learning-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-cells-learn-faster-than-machine-learning-research-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells learn faster than machine learning, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-cells-learn-faster-than-machine-learning-research-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning by comparing how both a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) system known as \u201cDishBrain\u201d and state-of-the-art RL (reinforcement learning) algorithms react to certain stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cDynamic Network Plasticity and Sample Efficiency in Biological Neural Cultures: A Comparative Study with Deep Reinforcement Learning,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/spj.science.org\/doi\/10.34133\/cbsystems.0336\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>Cyborg and Bionic Systems<\/i>,<\/i> is the first known of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Cortical Labs, the Melbourne-based startup which created the world\u2019s first commercial biological computer, the CL1. The CL1, through which the research was conducted, fuses lab-cultivated neurons from human stem cells with hard silicon to create a more advanced and sustainable form of AI, known as SBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning by comparing how both a Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) system known as \u201cDishBrain\u201d and state-of-the-art RL (reinforcement learning) algorithms react to certain stimuli. The study, \u201cDynamic Network Plasticity and Sample Efficiency in Biological Neural Cultures: A Comparative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,41,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220032","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=220032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}