A group of scientists at Johns Hopkins University is exploring the possibility of creating so-called organic intelligence. Unlike neural networks based on software code, the organic one will be able to run on specially grown human brain cells.

Organoids, which are laboratory clusters of biological cells, have been experimented with for many years. Project leader Thomas Hartung has been growing functional organoids since 2012. They are human skin cells that develop into brain tissue after returning to the embryonic state. According to Hartung, this tissue has the ability to remember and learn. It is these biological elements that a professor at Johns Hopkins University plans to use as the basis for future supercomputers.

“Organoid intelligence would have a number of advantages unique to the human brain, such as quick decision making based on incomplete or unreliable information, i.e. intuitive thinking.”– said Thomas Hartung.

However, at the moment this is only research, albeit theoretical and revolutionary. There is no need to wait for the emergence of systems based on organoid intelligence in the near future.