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World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

"brain organoid" sounds like an insult.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Statement: you are correct. They should instead be called brain meatbags.

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[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

What's the FLOPs of this thing? Without this crucial info, we can't know if it's useless for training AIs or not. Training cost so much in terms of energy because the machines they use are beasts in terms of performance.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Can it do backpropagation?

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

As if tech isn't enough of a hyper specialized mess already now we're throwing biologists into the mix. "Sorry we need to wait for the registered nurse to fix your machine I'm not authorized to administer meds through the CPU's IV"

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