Scaffolding for Organoid Intelligence
Brain organoid with optic cups
Image credit: Elke Gabriel

Scaffolding for intergenerational memory
Specialized learning in HBOs and adaptive assembly scaffolding for multimodality


Organoid Array Computing: The Design Space of Organoid Intelligence

“Organoid Array Computing: The Design Space of Organoid Intelligence” by Ivar Frisch, Jenn Leung and Chloe Loewith drills deep into the world of organoids: simplified and miniaturised versions of living organs used in fields like drug discovery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The trio asks how stringing together functional neural networks made out of brain stem cells might prove crucial in the quest to “biologicalise AI,” setting off a chain reaction of reinforcement learning between thinking rocks (microprocessors) and thinking groups of cells.
The design space of Organoid Intelligence focuses on the growing dimensions and analysis of inputs, outputs, interfaces, and frameworks across multiple scales. We posit that the design of OI is less an act of top-down design and more a process of guided evolution, wherein higher-order cognitive functions emerge organically from the intricate interplay of lower-level biochemical substrates.




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Project researchers: Jenn Leung, Chloe Loewith, Ivar Frisch
Project developed during Antikythera’s Synthetic Intelligence
Design-Development Studio in Summer 2024. 
Supported by Antikythera and the Berggruen Institute

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