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The Birth of Wetware (2018)
Forget what you may have heard about neural networks in software. Berkeley, CA startup Koniku is making a computer with living neurons.
By creating individual technologies that perform some sensing task, such as tasting, feeling heat, or even seeing, Agabi hopes to lay the groundwork for his ultimate goal of a wetware AI. With the help of Koniku’s pink juice and a new automated pump system that will be incorporated into each sensor, Agabi expects to eventually reach DeMarse’s record for neuron longevity. Ditto, the researcher who once made a computer out of leech neurons, is now working on a “chaotic chip,” which constantly changes from analog to digital processing — as often as a billion times a second — in order to solve problems more efficiently.
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