Human brain organoids classify Braille letters in study
Researchers at the University of Bristol reported in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence that human brain organoids, living neural tissue grown from stem cells, could classify Braille letters from electrical signals. A single organoid of about 10,000 neurons reached roughly 61 percent accuracy, while an ensemble of three organoids reached 83 percent. Lead researcher Tianyi Liu stressed the experiment was open-loop, with the organoids receiving only initial inputs and no feedback, so it does not show they learned Braille or were permanently altered, only that they could classify letters after stimulation.
The work falls under the emerging field of organoid intelligence, which aims to use organoids as biological "wetware" for computing, though Liu notes organoid systems still lag established computing chips in reliability, reproducibility and scalability.
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