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Using human brain cells for AI CPU

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Bahar Honarmandian
September 20, 2024

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Good morning bees

Today we have AI hardware powered by human brain cells, artists taking revenge from AI models, and the Startup that became a unicorn in just 7 months and much more..

🗞️ The next AI hardware is made of human brain cells and is alive!

A group of scientists huddled around saying “Why not power AI with mini human brains?” so they took tiny human brain cells called organoids grew them in a dish hooked them up with a supercomputer and AI and created what is now called Brianoware

But why? Regular AI hardware is limited by heat production, time and energy consumption, and is nearing its theoretical limits, known as the 'von Neumann bottleneck'. However, the human brain is efficient in processing and learning information with low energy consumption. for the same reason, Sam Altman trying to raise 10 billion to build its own network of chip factories

What's really mind-boggling is that these tiny brains or brain organoids can remember things, forget things, learn from training data, solve non-linear equations, and even play pong

But How: When scientists connected the brain organoid to a computer chip, it started working unsupervised with an AI program to learn, translating neural activity into literal computer code. The brain organoids show they're learners, reshaping their mini-brain connections to get smarter with a little electrical encouragement – like training a tiny pet brain!

But growing these mini-brains is not easy. It's like to bake a perfect cake, but the recipe keeps changing. And connecting them to computers? Well, that's like teaching a goldfish to sing – tricky, but the scientists are determined.

Looking ahead: We might soon use lab-grown brain cells to power computers, which sounds like science fiction. But for nearly ten years, scientists have been using these brain organoids to study diseases. Now, new studies suggest these lab-grown brain cells can actually learn.

My only question is: Is this AI vegan?

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🗞️ Artists take revenge on AI with a new poison, Nightshade

From the movie V for vendetta

Artists vendetta is a tool called Nightshade! It messes with the AI's head. Imagine adding poison to your artwork that makes AI models go bonkers when they try to use it.

So, here's the deal: Nightshade lets you sneakily tweak your pixels before uploading your masterpiece, using adversarial perturbations. If some sneaky AI company scrapes your art without asking, the result is chaos. It exploits a security vulnerability in generative AI models, that damage the AI training process. Dogs start pretending to be cats, cars do a moo instead of a vroom—it's an an artistic retaliation!

Big-shot AI companies like OpenAI and Meta have been playing fast and loose with artists' work, leading to lawsuits left and right. But Nightshade, created by the brainiacs led by Ben Zhao at the University of Chicago who also created another tool called Glaze that works kinda of the same

Nightshade isn't just for the chosen few. It's open source, meaning anyone can play with it. There's a risk that some mischief-makers might misuse Nightshade, but the folks behind it say it takes a whole army of poisoned images to mess with the big, powerful AI models. It's like trying to flood a bathtub with a water gun—you need a lot of shots!

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🦄Startup turned unicorn in just 7 months

ElevenLabs was Co-founded in 2022 by Piotr Dabkowski ex-Google machine learning engineer, and Mati Staniszewski

How did they become a unicorn?

  1. Raising $101 million

    • pre-seed: $2 million, Jan 2023

    • series A: $19 million in June 2023

    • Series B: $80 million, Jan 2024

  1. Their cool speech Synthesis tool

    • Users have generated more than 100 years of audio

    • The platform is being used by employees at 41% of Fortune 500 companies.

  2. Formed partnerships with major players

    • The Washington Post and WonderShare Filmora

Eleven Labs is now working to launch their Dubbing Studio Workflow, Voice Library Marketplace, and Mobile App Reader real soon.

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