# Hon Weng Chong

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The $1 Trillion Question: Can Living Chips Replace Silicon? | Dr. Hon Weng Chong & Cortical Labs

Dr. Hon Weng Chong is the CEO and Founder of Cortical Labs, the company pioneering computers powered by living neurons. A physician turned technologist, Dr. Hon’s path began with projects like bringing Xbox consoles to children’s hospitals and creating diagnostic tools for childhood pneumonia. Toda…

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This episode was originally reported on our podcast Reflector. You can hear this story and many more by visiting us here What if the next great leap in computing wasn't made of silicon — but of living human brain cells? Reporter Greg Warner takes us inside the lab of Hon Weng Chong, an Australia…

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What if the next great leap in computing wasn't made of silicon — but of living human brain cells? Reporter Greg Warner takes us inside the lab of Hon Weng Chong, an Australian computer engineer who has built a biological computer: a device that houses actual human neurons in a petri dish, teaches …

The Future of Biological Computing, with Dr. Hon Weng Chong

What if the next generation of computers isn’t built with silicon — but grown from living neurons? In this episode of The Long Frontier, hosts Brannon Jones and Abe Murray explore one of the most unconventional frontiers in computing: biological intelligence. Joined by Dr. Hon Weng Chong, Founder &…

This Startup Fused Human Brain Cells with Silicon Chips | E2295

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Deel https://deel.com/twist Quo https://quo.com/TWiST LinkedIn Jobs https://LinkedIn.com/twist Today's show: Cortical Labs is the world's first company selling biological computers. Their CL1 fuses lab-grown human neurons (derived from stem cells,…

Through a Glass, Darkly: Part One

Eight thousand years ago, in a settlement called Çatalhöyük in what is now central Turkey, somebody sat down with a piece of obsidian and began to grind volcanic glass. Black, brittle, sharp enough to cut skin, it doesn’t occur naturally anywhere near there; the closest volcanoes are a hundred and …

Through a Glass, Darkly: Part Two

Last week we ended in a laboratory in Melbourne, with a man who grows human brain cells in a dish and teaches them to play Doom. He told us they’re about as complex as a cockroach. He also told us where the cells come from. Human blood. Some of it his own. This is the half where it stops being a qu…

The Oracle Test

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the richest man in the world didn't trust his oracles, so he tested them. One passed: the Oracle of Delphi. Then it told him exactly what he wanted to hear, and his empire burned. A few weeks ago, I met a man who ran the same test on his oracles. The Oracle of ChatGPT…

Engineering Consciousness (Part Two)

When Richard Feynman died, a sentence was left on his blackboard at Caltech: “That which I cannot create, I do not understand.” Mark Solms took this as a challenge. A quick word up top about the week AI doom went mainstream, and why this show isn’t about that. Then: part two of a three-part story a…

A Great Loss to the Universe (Part Three)

Content note: this episode includes a brief discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US. Outside the US, you can find a local helpline at https://findahelpline.com. Neuropsychoanalysis pioneer Mark Solms says…