Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minut...
I don't think their story is what they really want to do. I think it is just the first step. If they can use lab-grown brain cells to supplement CPUs for AI, they could try to go the other way... Meaning they could try to use the AI and CPUs to program data onto brain cells. Sure would make MKULTRA much easier if they could inject brain cells maybe up through the nasal passage or behind the eyes just like uploading data to a database.