Cortical Labs is officially out of stealth! Read more on what we’ve been up to over the past year, and what we see is the future of
#AI
:
@blackbirdvc
@jeremyakahn
Sharing some exciting Scanning Electron Microscopy images to show the intricate detail of our neural networks hybridising with their silicon substrate. The grid-like lattice structure are the electrodes while the grape-like clusters are the neural networks
#neuroscience
#ai
More neural cells forming complex networks. The GIF format seems far better at conveying co-expression of markers than traditional mosaic style images.
Excited to see activity in developing neural organoids (3D clusters of brain cells) with distinct firing patterns on
#MEA
. Each red flash is showing the electrical activity from the biological neurons
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#brains
#science
Testing new ways to image our multielectrode arrays. Still working on it, but you can see the grid like structure of our electrodes which can stimulate and records from cells. Green=neurons, red=neurons & axons, cyan=dendrites, blue=all cells.
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#brains
#science
#MEA
Cortical Labs is looking for a
#PHD
student to take part in a paid internship organised with
#APRIntern
to help develop a post-silicon age biological AI chip.
See for details.
What is sentience? What is consciousness? How can we make sure we approach these questions in an ethical way that may even replace areas of animal research?
Check out our new publication in AJOB Neuroscience for more:
#ethics
#neuroscience
#DishBrain
Today we launch the beta of our SpikeStream Neural Visualiser. We have a replay of our stem-cell NGN-2 neural network on loop and occasionally a live stream of our neurons direct from the laboratory. Check it out here -
Massive whitepaper just dropped on why neuroscience progress should continue to drive AI progress: Argues for an embodied turing test. Needed: real interdisciplinary people, shared platform(s), fundamental research
Australia is home to a flourishing startup scene. It's flush with companies focused on improving healthcare outcomes, not only for people in Australia, but everywhere in the world.
#AWS
cloud technologies are helping to accelerate both research and
Cell grown in parallel to those on our
#Maxwell
MEA. The different colours are from different antibodies which bind to distinct types of cells. Here our
#neurons
form connections with each other across the well. Follow us for some more exciting updates in the future!
#CorticalLabs
Thank you to the team at MaxWell
@mxwbio
for their continued support throughout our endeavours.
We explain the use of their HD-MEA MaxOne in our latest publication:
One of the inspirations for us to try and tackle the game of Pong came from an experiment conducted at SIGGRAPH91 by Loren Carpenter. Watch the experiment here
@hugobowne
you can get more information from the preprint here - (as an aside, you don't necessarily need a reward function. Information surprise and its minimisation should suffice)
This real-time visualisation is part of our suite of tools for researchers and developers to debug the activity of their neurons. Built entirely to run in the browser using
#webgl
. Sign up at to be notified of the beta.
Although a little blurry, these cells are on a chip that is totally opaque and does not allow any light to transmit through it. So it has to be imaged in a slightly different way to most other conventional microscopy techniques.