Trent Loos explores energy use, economic impact and research comparing the human brain to modern supercomputers.

It’s a very common metaphor to compare brains to computers, although this comparison falls short to illustrate how complex our brains are. Eric Chudler puts it very clearly here, in his Neuroscience ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. The world’s first “code-deployable” biological computer is now for sale. The Cortical Labs ...

The comparison underscores a paradox at the heart of modern AI development: today’s neural networks are inspired by the brain ...

The shoe box-sized device, dubbed CL1, is a notable departure from a conventional computer, and uses human brain cells to run fluid neural networks. In 2022, Cortical Labs made a big splash after ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. We stand at the cusp of a massive technology paradigm shift that ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Brain-computer interfaces promise breakthroughs in restoring lost function and beyond. But they also raise ethical and societal questions about the linking ...

Discover what sets human intelligence apart in this artificial intelligence comparison. Learn why human vs AI reveals ...

Bram Servais formerly worked for Cortical Labs but holds no shared patents or stock and has severed all financial ties. As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current ...

As the body’s most external organ, skin is privileged for human-computer interfaces because it can be accessed non-invasively. Despite much progress on thin flexible devices that conform to skin for ...