AI Startup Combines Mouse Neurons With Silicon Chips To Make Computers Smarter, Faster

There aren't many computer chips that you have to build a life support system for. You actually need to supply everything they would normally get in a fully biological body. As Hon Weng Chong, the CEO of Australia's Cortical Labs explains, it's all about creating computer systems that learn -- and that learn faster with less training data. That requires a different approach than standard Intel, Nvidia, or AMD chips, he says. "What we've actually built is a hybrid chip that is comprised of a CMOS sensor, so it's a silicon chip with a very fine mesh of electrodes. They're about 17 microns in pitch and there are about 22,000 of them," Chong told me on The AI Show recently.