The fact that people are planning to use human brain cells in artificial intelligence data centers is so evil that it would give Peter Thiel an erection.
We really need to rein these folks in now.
Last year, researchers at Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs showed off its CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer” that’s made up of 200,000 living human neurons.
In February, the company showed off its progress, demonstrating how the neurons could be taught how to play the seminal video game Doom — a far more complex and impressive showing than much earlier attempts to have them play Pong in 2022.
Now, Cortical Labs is ready to scale up the operation. As Bloomberg reports, the company says it’s working on “biological data centers” in Melbourne, Australia, and Singapore. Simply put, instead of relying on Nvidia chips like AI companies, Cortical Labs is planning to outfit its futuristic facilities with racks of CL1 biological computers, powered by many more human brain cells, instead.
The company refers to this approach as “wetware,” an unsettling new take on software and hardware terminology. Simply put, the computers send electrical signals to neurons derived from human blood stem cells. The chips embedded within record those neurons’ responses as the output.
It's like these guys watch The Matrix, and thought, "I gotta have me some of that."
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