AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Biologists are increasingly using human brain organoids—clumps of living neurons—to test pharmaceuticals and even perform computational tasks. This emerging field suggests a future where biological intelligence could supplement or replace traditional artificial intelligence.
Not a brain as complex as the one behind your eyes, of course, but a glob of gray matter nonetheless, with a few-million-odd neurons that can send and receive electrical signals. Biologists call these strange creations human brain organoids. Kept at a womblike 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for eight months, they’ll produce repetitive oscillations—brain waves—nearly indistinguishable from those made by a premature baby.
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