Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes biology is the next frontier in computing

cnbc ^ | 10/02/19 | Jennifer Elias

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a part of a larger hope to advance artificial intelligence and computing efforts.

“Biology will undoubtedly fuel computing” in coming years, former Google CEO and current technical advisor Eric Schmidt said at a conference called SynBioBeta in San Francisco Monday. “Taking biology, which I’d always viewed as squishy and analog, and turning it into something that can be digitally manipulated, is an enormous accelerator.”

Schmidt’s comments come as Silicon Valley’s seeming obsession with biology attempts to move beyond fascinating projects and into more serious investments that could help modernize tech processes.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this year announced he and his wife Priscilla Chan would donate $68 million to support the mapping of all the cells in the human body. Facebook also recently acquired a company called CTRL Labs that lets you control computers with your mind. And Neuralink, a start-up once backed by Elon Musk, announced its brain-computer will start trials on humans next year.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Ping

[ifinnegan]

Biology is slow.

Not the next step in computing.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Transhumanism may be the mark of the Beast

[outofsalt]

“Biology will undoubtedly fuel computing”

Transgender computers? 57 Varieties?

[Mark17]

I wonder if they are trying to create hybrids? As in the days of Noah?

[wally_bert]

https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Vicker

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I think that actually might be the route

[Roman_War_Criminal]

That’s very plausible based on all of the pseudo experiments they are trying out.

We’re in those days Bro! Hang in there.

[HighSierra5]

Dr. Frankenstein.

[crusher2013]

They can never create AI until they understand how the human mind works.

What they call AI right now is just clever programming.

[Mark17]

We’re in those days Bro! Hang in there.

👍

[SteveH]

this... makes for a good pickup line at a hilton hotel bar... just saying...

:-)

[easternsky]

AGREE

[SteveH]

and besides, there is nothing particularly new about this idea, having already been proposed gene roddenberry in star trek ii: the wrath of khan...

:)

[SteveH]

if any hott fr chicks wanna date me, i am available... lol

[SteveH]

i don’t have big money like eric , but
i’m not overweight, i don’t wear glasses, and i won’t bore you endlessly about software algorithms or clean nuclear powered mini-reactors either.

:)

[sevlex]

[Rennes Templar]

Foreseen in the Terminator flicks - Cyborgs.

[TChad]

The perfect Gahan Wilson cartoon for this thread.