Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and ElevenLabs’ voice cloning tools surprised us all today, but also blurred our future a bit. While trying to imagine where artificial intelligence-human interaction could lead, a new technology concept emerged in the scientific world.
An international team of scientists from the Universities of California, Johns Hopkins and Konstanz presented an idea that goes beyond artificial intelligence. According to scientists, the artificial intelligence of the future will be ‘organoid intelligence’ developed directly with the human brain.
What is organoid intelligence?
“Organoid intelligence,” defined for the first time by scientists, includes the development of biological computing and brain-machine interface technologies using 3D cultures of cells in the human brain.
What do you mean by “3D culture”?
The concept of organoid is actually used today. Structures called brain organoids describe organs that resemble the brain and are grown artificially. The process of creating these organoids explains the concept of ‘three dimensions’.
Organoids are developed by culturing, or growing, stem cells from pluripotent cells in the early stages of embryos in three-dimensional bioreactors. The development process can take months.
What makes organoids look like brains?
Organoids share a lot in common with human brain structure. But most importantly, the human brain also carries functions that enable its abilities such as learning and memory. In other words, these devices can work like a human brain.
What do scientists plan to do with organoids?
According to the research published by scientists, organoids may offer much better performance in today’s computers in running artificial intelligence systems in the near future. But in order to reach this near future, some conditions must be met.
For organoid intelligence to become a reality, new models, algorithms and interface technologies must be developed. It is also a must to understand how organoids learn, how they process and how they process and store the very high-dimensional data they will produce.
Organoid intelligence development also needs to be ethical:
The scientists emphasized that for the development of this technology, interdisciplinary and representative teams of ethicists, researchers and community members should come together. These teams must identify, discuss, and analyze ethical issues to frame ethical studies.
Let’s come to one of the main questions: Why would we need such a thing?
Scientists said that today’s computers have now reached the physical limit. However, a system close to the human brain that can host thousands of terabytes of data and access this data instantly will be able to offer much higher power for future systems.
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