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Description:
Our brain has around 86 billion neurons, but runs on a mere 20 watts of electricity. According to Stanford University’s Kwabena Boahen, replicating the computing power of the brain would require 10 megawatts of power, a 500 thousand fold increase.
But what if we could build a computer as efficient as our own brain?
Dr. Fred Jordan has been captivated by this question since he was a little kid, dreaming of building a super-efficient wetware computer capable of extraordinary calculations.
Now, Jordan is chasing that dream with co-founder Dr. Martin Kutter and a stacked team of professionals, each holding Ph.D.’s in fields such as applied mathematics, neuroscience, biology, and programming. Together, they form FinalSpark, a Swiss-based company that has the ambitious goal of building a wetware computer inside a petri dish.
Their work is entirely funded by the profits of AlpVision, another company founded by Jordan, which uses AI to authenticate products and detect counterfeits in various industries such as medicines, perfumes, and tobacco. Jordan says this self-funding model frees them from the constraints imposed by external investors, enabling full dedication to pioneering this new technology that they believe has the potential to change the world.
Their goal is to revolutionize the future of computing using cultivated neurons as a computer, unleashing unprecedented capabilities in terms of self-organizing and continuous learning, energy efficiency, and scalability.
FinalSpark’s challenges include having to maintain a sterile environment as one bacterium ruins the computer. The main challenge, however, is to communicate with the wetware computer, to give it tasks, and to read the output. They are currently working on an AI-based software system to tackle this problem.
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
02:30 Going to the lab
04:50 How do you create the cells?
05:40 How do you communicate with cells?
07:12 Why should we want this?
09:50 Recap