A squad of scientists from the University of TianJin (chin. 天津大学) and confederate University of discipline and Technology (chin. 南方科技大学) combined, as the world's first neuron device strategy (digital) with a laboratory-bred cellular structure modeled on tissues forming the brain building. This is simply a strategy called MetaBOC, Brain-on-a-Chip, which in Polish can be translated as “brain on the chip”. This is simply a fresh way to the improvement of "brain-computer interface" technology, which will revolutionize the improvement of state-of-the-art discipline and technology, specified as hybrid intelligence and computational (data processing) mechanisms based on human brain activities. As the name suggests, the ‘brain on the chip’ is divided into 2 parts:
- ‘chip’ (chip with electrodes) and
- ‘brain’ (in vitro cultured brain).
One of the challenges of this technology is to get brain tissue outside the human body utilizing stem cell technology. These tissues, having biological brain functions, are combined by electrodes with microprocessors. specified a human brain-like organ connected to a computer chip can control robots to execute various activities, specified as avoiding obstacles, tracking, grasping, etc. Unlike conventional technologies already tested (e.g. Elon Mask, Neuralink), which primarily usage the human brain or another biological brains as an experimental object, Brain-on-a-Chip uses bred brain cells. The major breakthroughs in this investigation by Chinese scientists are:
- raising cell culture from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, which provides Brain-on-Chip with a more complex neural computing network
- the addition of artificial intelligence algorithms to enable hybrid intelligence trials.
Furthermore, the squad confirmed the function of physical fields in stimulating growth and improvement of organs akin to human brains. A three-dimensional physical structure allows them to make more complex neural connections, as in our brains. These organisms are bred under the influence of concentrated low-intensity ultrasound stimulation, which seems to increase their intelligence potential. MetaBOC besides tries to stimulate intelligence, utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms in software for communication with biological intelligence of brain cells.
Because of this kind of investigation and experiments, ethical questions are naturally born. For example:
- Does the “brain on the chip” gain consciousness?
- Will artificial intelligence produce consciousness?
- Are people beginning to usage the physical elements of their own brains to make the brains of cyborgs capable of intelligent device control?
Artificial brain cells will require their survival. This means that they must be fed, controlled and protected against bacteria and viruses. It sounds incredible that right now at advanced velocity humanity is moving towards a mysterious technological singularity in which artificial intelligence surpasses our own intelligence and begins to evolve and can create, act faster than humans.
Will robots, machines, think like a man, and future processors, in fact, be digitally enhanced human brains? These questions will seem to should be answered by young people today. Or possibly the advancement of these technologies will prove so dynamic that we ourselves will gotta look for the right answer...
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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