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Organoid Intelligence: Wetware as Compute

Organoid Intelligence: Wetware as Compute

Organoid Intelligence: Wetware as Compute In 2022, a company called Cortical Labs published a paper with an audacious title: "In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world." They had grown a small cluster of human neurons in a dish. They connected it to

The Brain's Impossible Efficiency: 20 Watts

The Brain's Impossible Efficiency: 20 Watts

The Brain's Impossible Efficiency: 20 Watts Here's a number that should make every computer scientist uncomfortable: 20 watts. That's the power consumption of an adult human brain. A typical incandescent light bulb uses more. A laptop uses three to four times as much. A

Landauer's Limit: The Physics of Erasing Information

Landauer's Limit: The Physics of Erasing Information

Landauer's Limit: The Physics of Erasing Information In 1961, a physicist at IBM named Rolf Landauer asked a question that seemed almost philosophical: What is the minimum energy required to perform a computation? The answer he found wasn't philosophical at all. It was thermodynamics. And it

The Compute Ceiling: Why AI Hit a Wall

The Compute Ceiling: Why AI Hit a Wall

The Compute Ceiling: Why AI Hit a Wall In 2020, OpenAI trained GPT-3. It took approximately 1,287 megawatt-hours of electricity—enough to power 120 American homes for a year. The cost: somewhere between $4 million and $12 million, depending on how you count. In 2023, GPT-4 training consumed an

The Intelligence of Energy

The Intelligence of Energy

The Intelligence of Energy Every thought you think costs calories. Every AI response burns watts. Every calculation, biological or silicon, requires energy—and that energy has to come from somewhere. This isn't a metaphor. Intelligence is expensive, and the bill comes in joules. We're used to

The CRISPR Babies: When He Jiankui Edited the Human Germline

The CRISPR Babies: When He Jiankui Edited the Human Germline

The CRISPR Babies: When He Jiankui Edited the Human Germline On November 25, 2018, a scientist named He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to YouTube. He stood in what looked like a hotel conference room, speaking to the camera in careful English. He wore a blue button-down shirt. He

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Beyond Cut and Paste

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Beyond Cut and Paste

Base Editing and Prime Editing: Beyond Cut and Paste Here's CRISPR's dirty secret: it works by breaking things. When Cas9 edits a gene, it doesn't delicately rewrite the code. It takes molecular scissors and snaps both strands of the DNA helix in half. Then