AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition

[Travoli]

"Balls of human brain cells linked to a computer have been used to perform a very basic form of speech recognition. The hope is that such systems will use far less energy for AI tasks than silicon chips."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2407768-ai-made-from-living-human-brain-cells-performs-speech-recognition/

[littleman]

Fascinating and unsettling.  This has echos of RoboCop where they needed the human brain to control the police-machine.