Der Computer, der auf menschlichen Neuronen ausgeführt wird: Der biologische CL1-Computer ist für die biomedizinische Forschung ausgelegt, verspricht aber auch, ein schnelleres und energieeffizienteres Computersystem zu liefern.
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-04-05/the-computer-that-runs-on-human-neurons.html
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Lab-grown brain cells are the basis for the functioning of the CL1, which has been announced as the first commercially-sold biological computer.
This machine promises to unravel information-processing in the brain. The CL1 has been designed for the purpose of drug development, by studying how neurons react to certain compounds.
It will also help scientists and medical laboratories understand how neurons process information and how real-time learning works.
The computer will also offer insight into the mechanisms that trigger some neurodegenerative and cognitive diseases.
Sorry but this is such a dud.
It’s a tabletop incubator with a multielectrode array in it.
I can make a similar one where you put a sausage in it – tada! A sausage computer. X
What does this machine do? Except make huge promises?
This seems quite interesting for electrophysiology studies on how cultured neurons will respond to drugs. It’s also neat that you can both read and send electrical impulses simultaneously. However, I remain deeply skeptical that the energy economics of these „wetware“ projects will ever improve on generic silicon microchips for any useful task, relative to the amount of waste needed to maintain a tissue culture laboratory. The article makes some particularly cringe worthy errors in drawing a comparison energy-wise („watts per year“???)