“Today, Dr Kagan and his team launched the product — called CL1 — at an international technology conference in Barcelona, promising companies access to the ‘first commercialised biological computer’

Filled with hundreds of thousands of lab-made neurons sized somewhere between an ant and cockroach brain, CL1 is primed to learn. …

The idea behind CL1 is that since companies like Google and OpenAI are trying to create an AI that works like a brain, why not use the parts — neurons — to achieve the same goal?”

From ABC Australia.