Advanced Technology

摘要

Wthen neurons clump together in a big enough mass, they can end up forming a brain, which offers the ability to think, do arithmetic, process data, and so on. But if you pluck one off and drop it into a dish, it becomes stupid and unable to perform useful functions (much like what happens when you separate one member of a boy band from the rest). But what happens if you put them (the neurons, that is) back together? Could we not assemble a functional artificial neural network made up of live neurons? Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science seem to have proven the affirmative, at least on a small scale. In an early experiment, Prof.