The Johns Hopkins research team has outlined their plan for the development of a 'biocomputer' that could create faster, more efficient, and more powerful computers.
They called this type of technology "organoid intelligence" (OI), as it is powered by living human brain cells.
"Computing and artificial intelligence have been driving the technology revolution, but they are reaching a ceiling," said Thomas Hartung, the leader of the research team. "Biocomputing is an enormous effort of compacting computational power and increasing its efficiency to push past our current technological limits."
Organoids are three-dimensional clumps of biological tissue that scientists have been growing and experimenting with for years, to avoid resorting to human or animal testing.
However, Hartung's team believes that the full potential of organoids has not yet been explored. His team is looking into whether this biological material...