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At Australian-based Cortical Labs, CEO Hon Weng Chong and his team have created a sci-fi innovation: aFor now, DishBrain has learned to play Atari’sgame. But by combining the extraordinary learning ability of human brains and the processing power of silicon chips, Chong is building biological computers that he claims could potentially work smarter and more efficiently than today’s AI.
The 35-year-old doctor-turned-entrepreneur says Cortical Labs’ biological computer could help test the efficacy and side effects of drugs, such as dementia and epilepsy, and hopes to work with pharmaceutical companies like Biogen and Eli Lilly.. Training GPT-3, the brain behind OpenAI’s viral chatbot, for example, used an amount of electricity roughly equivalent to that consumed by around 120 U.S. homes in 2021, per a 2021 research paper.
Chong says the firm has been working with bioethicists and acknowledges that there’s a “humongous technical moat.” But Cortical labs has already gone further than most in trying to commercialize biological computers. By the end of this year, it aims to start generating revenue when it kicks off sales of its biological computers.
And by the end of 2024, Cortical Labs will start to provide cloud services, having clusters of 120 biological computers for companies to program brain cells for different tasks, Chong adds.“In the short-term, Cortical Labs’ biological computer brings forth compelling in-vitro solutions that can give further insight into how drugs affect neurons,” Jonathan Tam, an investor at Cortical Labs’ backer Horizons Ventures who leads AI-related investments, says in a written response.
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