Posted on 03/08/2024 6:41:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
The new processor stores data in modified DNA molecules and uses microfluidic channels to perform basic computations.
Scientists have created a new biocomputing chip that makes calculations using a DNA substrate, including mathematical operations essential to artificial intelligence (AI) training and big data processing.
Researchers described the new biocomputing platform Oct. 19,2023, in the journal PLOS One. DNA is known as the blueprint for life and encodes genetic information, like data can be encoded onto electronic-based storage devices.
DNA-based devices have previously been used to encode data on a small scale, but this prototype chip uses DNA to process data too.
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"DNA is excellent at storing information, in fact, it is much better than the electronic modes of memory because it is about 3-to-6 orders of magnitude more compact than most memory hardware that we have; it is also much more reliable and durable," study co-author Amlan Ganguly, head of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said in a statement.
DNA has long been proposed as a more effective way to store data than conventional methods, such as hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs), and companies such as Microsoft have also identified DNA as one candidate to store and manage skyrocketing amounts of data. Researchers have previously built DNA-based storage devices, including encoding the DNA molecules of bacteria with a video of a horse in 2017.
But data transfer speeds on DNA-based storage platforms are much slower than conventional storage devices, according to a 2018 paper published in the journal 3Biotech. DNA storage is also much more expensive to manufacture.
In addition, not just storing but processing data on devices built from DNA has been relatively unexplored.
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M1 through M4 wasn’t entirely successful.
“And now it’s starting to get scary.”
Playing God... They will be implanting this stuff before too long.
I used my DNA in the manufacture of one of those devices and all it would do was conduct itself like an Irish Setter.
They chucked it.
Maybe they should be working on making AI correct before making it fast. What good are faster wrong answers?
No, I alway preferred the Z28 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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