< IMG LOADING = "Lazy" SRSC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Medium/Public/2025-03/Dall%C2%B7E%202025-03-16%2014.54.34%20-%20a%20SIMPLE%20Yet%20FUTURISTIC%20concept%20of%20a%20hybrid% Computer%20 Combining%20silicon%20chips%20with%20 Human%20 Nuns.%20The%20Mage%20Shows%20a%20Sleek%20Microchip%20with%20organic%20neuron.jpg ? Itok = EO1VG-FD " width = "1300" height = "743" Alt = "Biological computer" class = "Lazyload Img-Flid Image-Style-Max-300x1300" SRC = "/Sites/Default/Files/Styles/Max_1300x1300/Public/2025-03/Dall%C2%B7E%202025-03-16%2014.54.34%20-%20A%20SIMPLE%20yet%20FUTURISTIC%20concept%20a%20ybrid %20computing%20 Combining%20silicon%20chips%20with%20 Human%20 Nuns.%20The%20Mage%20Shows%20a%20Sleek%20Microchip%20with%20organic%20neuron.jpg ? Itok = -LMWVF5Y " /> DR – Image generated with artificial intelligence. < P >< Strong > An Australian company called Cortical Labs has marketed its “bio-computer”, an innovation which merges biotechnology and computer science. Connecting human neurons and silicon chips, the device is more dynamic and more evolving than artificial intelligence (IA), but knows several limits.
< P >In search of ever more powerful capacities, science is closer and closer to … humans. In fact, our brain, it was good! And soon, we may be able to buy one. Let it be said, it will all be simpler than learning to use it. < H4 ~ a Machine (on) Vivante < P > This is what Cortical Labs proposes, with its “bio-wireless” unveiled in early March during the Mobiliel Salon. Fusion of human biology and digital technology, the idea may seem futuristic, even delusional, but it becomes more and more tangible – and for the modest sum of 35,000 dollars. < P >Called CL1, this device combines human neurons cultivated on silicon fleas. The latter, traditionally used in electronics, now serve as a “bridge” between biology and computer science: as explained < em > usbek & amp; Rica , “The neurons are kept alive in a box that nourishes them with nutrients and keeps unwanted microbes away. Silicon chips, on the other hand, send electrical signals to neurons through small electrodes and capture their responses in the way of a brain Miniature. “< P > These biological computers are not content to imitate the functioning of the human brain; They exploit its flexibility, its adaptability and, paradoxically, its energy saving. < EM > In fine , the objective displayed by Cortical Labs is to redefine the current artificial intelligence. This bio-computer could in particular be used in fields such as biomedical research, more precisely simulating certain pathologies. By cultivating neurons taken from patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia or epilepsy, researchers could test suitable treatments specifically to the individual, and thus revolutionize the way drugs are tested and products. An advance that could theoretically reduce the use of animal tests and refine our understanding of diseases. But, once the enthusiasm has passed, several limits are posed. < H4 > already obsolete < P >The appearance of bio-roding inevitably raises the question of intelligence itself. Should AI, as we knew it until then, still must be defined by silicon circuits, or the future must it belong to living machines ? These devices are distinguished by their ability to adapt and learn with less data. According to the scientific director of Cortical Labs, Brett Kagan, “our neural systems require a minimum of energy and training data to master complex tasks”. An advance that seems to surpass classical models like Chatgpt. < P > Except that, as Claude Touzet, an artificial intelligence expert underlines, there is a fundamental problem attached to these systems: their slowness. “The neurons tire and cannot bear hot or cold,” he said in an interview with < EM > l'Express . According to him, these organoids cannot compete with the effectiveness of electronic systems. < P >In addition, at a time when we are talking more and more about “artificial conscience”, some researchers warn against the potential appearance of a form of consciousness in these biological intelligences. These fears are still stammering, as the researcher Silvia Velasco from ~ 60 > Murdoch Children's Research Institute 62 ~, but they deserve to be heard, since the boundaries between biology and machine are becoming more and more become more and more Floues. < P > Finally, after decades to want to make the machines more human, we rediscover both the limits of the living, and those of technology. At 35,000 dollars per unit, we are entitled to wonder if, basically, the real revolution would not be to use … our own brain. < P >< Strong > The article you liked ? It mobilized our editorial staff which only lives from your gifts. < Br > Information has a cost, especially since competition from subsidized writing requires additional rigor and professionalism. < P > With your support, France-Soir will continue to offer its articles for free & nbsp; we think that everyone must have access to free and independent information to forge their own opinion. < P > You are the sine qua non condition for our existence, support us for France-Soir to remain the French media which makes the most legitimate express.Between neurons and silicon, the first “bio-computer” has the sons which touch
ByNatasha Kumar
Mar 16, 2025
By Natasha Kumar
Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116