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As a follow-up to my previous post on emerging technologies, today I prepared an educational audio with Google Notebook to make this complex topic easy to understand, inspire you to think about it and enhance your learning.
Innovation is great, but combinatorial innovation can increase creativity, originality, novelty, efficiency, cost savings, risk reduction, higher success rates for projects, market relevance for business, competitive advantage in entrepreneurial pursuits, and enhanced collaboration for better teamwork in business and research organizations.
Recently, I wrote a story about brain organoids summarizing my studies in reservoir computing, which captivated some of my readers interested in science and technology. They asked me whether these cerebral organoids were real or just hypes and what we could do about them.
For those unfamiliar, reservoir computing is a computational framework that leverages the dynamic behavior of interconnected nodes, resembling a neural network, to process temporal information. It requires very small training data sets, uses linear optimization, and thus requires minimal computing resources.
In the reservoir computing model, a fixed reservoir (the system's core) transforms input data into a high-dimensional representation. This approach allows for the capture of complex patterns in sequential data, making it practical for tasks such as time-series prediction and dynamic system modeling for biological information.
Over the last forty years, I have followed the developments in computer science, neuroscience, and cognitive science closely. I am now engrossed in something as sci-fi sounding as cerebral organoids — mini-brains grown in a lab. Like many scientists in biocomputing, I am captivated by these tiny, living models of our most complex organ for various reasons that I will briefly explain in this short story for awareness purposes.
Motivated by the aspirations of fellow scientists, like the first trip of a child to a joyful playground, I am thrilled to conceptualize a project focused on observing the behavior of these mini-brains in a teacup, with the potential to create a metaphorical storm of innovation as we don’t think artificial intelligence can thrive without biological intervention.
Collaborating with my colleagues in the biocomputing and neurocomputing fields, we aim to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in organoid intelligence. Our vision is to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, inspiring scientists from various fields to unite in this innovative exploration, hopefully leading to a mass collaboration.
This interactive audio discusses the key issues and answers three questions:
What are the potential benefits and ethical concerns of merging artificial intelligence with organoid intelligence?
How might organoid intelligence transform our understanding of the brain and lead to advancements in medicine?
What are the key challenges and opportunities for the development and implementation of organoid intelligence?
My goal is to highlight the importance of open-mindedness to emerging technologies, highlight the important role of combinatorial innovation, and invite all interested people to global collaboration.
I also wrote an article about it that was published on my website for public access.
Medium readers can read this story at this link.
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