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This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295

Jun 1, 20261:05:39Watch on YouTube

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This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295 Today’s show: Cortical Labs is the world’s first company selling biological computers. Their CL1 fuses lab-grown human neurons (derived from stem cells, not actual folks) with silicon hardware to create Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI). Founder Dr. Hon Weng Chong walks us through how the system works and why neurons are more efficient than GPUs at reinforcement learning. (Also… is this computer alive?) PLUS Pyka co-founder and CEO Michael Norcia explains the various uses for his autonomous aircraft, from crop-spraying dro…