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They managed to grow an artificial brain from stem cells and attach it to a computer chip. The system could learn new things. This has the ability to overcome many restrictions that come from the mechanical silicon chip. In general as of now, traditional mechanical computers are better at processing numbers while the neurological side is better at processing complex qualitative ideas. When the signal was given to the brain, it changed the neural network and could learn language to a 78% accuracy, still less than mechanical computers but it had the potential to become more. As of the time the article was written, they could not enable them to store information long term to to lack or extra studies. They could send audio signals in the form of electrical signals but the brain could not truly hear anything, however this does not appear to have any impact on the results of the study. This has the ability to revolutionize computing when the brain and the microchip can work together and every weakness of one can be outwayed by the other.

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