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HUMAN BRAIN CELLS ARE NOW PART COMPUTER, PART SCIENCE FICTION Scientists are growing real brain cells on chips to see if they can think, learn, or even beat machines. Welcome to biocomputing - where your next computer might actually be a little bit alive. Source: Bloomberg

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someone connected LIVING BRAIN CELLS to an LLM Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons in a lab and kept them alive on a silicon chip, they taught the neurons to play Pong, then DOOM now someone wired them into a LLM... real brain cells firing electrical impulses to choose every token the AI generates you can see which channels were stimulated, the feedback from the neurons in choosing that letter or word

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For now, BCIs like mine are output-only. They don’t generate input in the brain. They simply read neural signals and turn them into actions — like controlling a computer with your mind. In the future, I do think BCIs will be able to generate input into the brain. We are very far from that today, and anyone saying otherwise is getting ahead of reality. But if we ever get there, the most important question won’t be technical. It’ll be: what will it mean to be human?

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13,861 views • 8 months ago

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19,595 views • 1 year ago

We asked Roy about the vision for Cluely. "Ultimately, what we want is a chip inside your brain that lets you use AGI to think." "Right now, we are building a really good desktop app that can be the ultimate player two for your computer.""

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