A tiny brain of living neurons first connected to artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence running on real neurons is one of the most promising models

development of neural networks and machine learning.Cortical Labs hopes that the hybrid tiny brain they created in the future will be able to produce at least the same results as existing artificial intelligence, while consuming much less energy to operate.

Cortical Labs uses two methods tocreating a hybrid brain. In the first, it receives neurons from mouse embryos, in the second, it turns human cells into stem cells and grows neurons from them. After that, they are placed in a nutrient medium on a chip of metal oxide, which contains 22 thousand electrodes.

Now the power of such a brain is approaching the braindragonflies, but Cortical Labs plans to teach him how to play the Pong arcade game. This arcade game is also known for training DeepMind artificial intelligence, which later became the world champion in go, in many computer games and attracted attention to the field of AI development for a mass audience.

Scientists have recently created the first machine thattranslates brain waves into sentences. In their study, scientists note that there are now a large number of similar devices, but most of them are ineffective - they can only decode fragments of spoken words, and their accuracy is equal to a few percent.