No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and artificial intelligence demands more energy than ever, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The world’s first “code-deployable” biological computer is now for sale. The Cortical Labs ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. We stand at the cusp of a massive technology paradigm shift that ...

Brandon Patterson hasn’t moved his fingers in nine years due to a spinal cord ...

A new computer chip inspired by the human brain could fix some of the biggest problems with artificial intelligence. The system – built around a “memristor” that mimics the way that neurons are ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a grain of sand, can receive electrical signals and respond to them — much as ...

Orange-arrow loop: Intracranial electrophysiological data are captured by macro-microelectrodes from the subject’s brain and streamed to the data acquisition device and a host computer, where the data ...