The idea of ``uploading your brain to a computer so that it continues to live on the computer even after your biological body disappears'' may seem like something only found in science fiction works, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. It is not possible to understand the long-term future of artificial ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Cortical Labs, which made headlines in 2022 after teaching neurons in a dish to play Pong, said the internet had “immediately asked the only question that matters in computing: can it run Doom?” In a ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...

Human brain cells are now interacting with computer systems, learning to play video games like Doom. Researchers have ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.