Cortical Labs has launched CL1 – the world’s first commercially available computer based on neurons grown from human stem cells.
The technology is based on fusing the lab-grown cells with hard silicon. The goal is to create a new form of artificial intelligence (AI), called Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI).
SBI promises to be able to grow, adapt and learn faster than AI based on standard silicon computer chips. It also requires far less energy – a 30-unit rack of CL1 uses 850–1,000 watts of energy. By comparison, it’s estimated that training a large language model like GPT-3 uses a little less than 1,300 megawatt hours of electricity – roughly equivalent to the annual usage of 130 US homes.
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