Show Notes
Fred Jordan, Co-CEO of FinalSpark, takes us inside the radical world of biological computing, where real neurons extracted from human tissue are being trained to solve problems that would require 10 megawatts in silicon. We explore the life support systems keeping these "wetware" processors alive, the ethical quandaries of computation performed by living cells, and why the messiness of biology might be exactly what AI needs next. From training cycles and reproducibility challenges to the surprising behaviors these neural networks display, Jordan paints a picture of 2030 where your devices might be powered by something closer to a brain than a chip.
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Topics: Biological computing • Neural engineering • Energy-efficient AI • Wetware vs hardware • The future of computation
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