Scientists get $600,000 grant to merge more AI
with human brain cells
source: msn.com | image: pixabay.com
- The funds came via Australia’s Defense Dept. and Office of National Intelligence
- The researchers hope their ‘beautiful’ interfaces between computer chips and brain cells will soon be ‘giving Australia a significant strategic advantage’
A team of Australian scientists collaborating across academia and private industry have just received a three-year grant to weaponize their work growing brain cell cultures that are capable of communicating with machines.
Over the past two years, the team has already succeeded in teaching a brain cell culture of approximately 800,000 neurons how to successfully play the 1970s video game Pong from its Petri dish.
The $600,000 grant was awarded by the Australian government’s military and intelligence communities and will be managed by the Australian Research Council.
‘The beautiful and pioneering aspect of this work rests on equipping the neurons with sensations: the feedback,’ as one of the Pong project’s co-researchers, theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston, put it last October.
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