Can Human Neurons Really Play Doom? The Science Behind Wetware
EP 33
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Wetware engineering — cutting out the middleman

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1:51So in our world of AI, we are very much used to artificial neural networks, right? And these are biomimetic AI in the sense that they mimic biology, right? Biological brains became artificial neural networks. The subject of this deep dive today is about a possible transition from this biomimetic AI to straight up biiomputing. It's called wetwware engineering and it's effectively neurons, human neurons plus electronics. So you cut out the middleman. You don't even make any artificial neurons. You're using now biological neurons to help you in

2:33computing. Specifically, there's an Australian company called Cortical Labs. They were recently in the news because

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