"...the human brain can store roughly 2,500 terabytes of information, which is about 1,000 times more memory than the newest MacBook Air laptop." by Fantine Gardinier via sputniknews A group of scientists have proposed basing a new type of artificial intelligence on the very material it is intended to equal: cells from a human brain. The effort is based out of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but coordinated with scientists from around the world. They published their argument for the effort recently in Frontiers, a peer-reviewed journal based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Their idea is to use "organoids," or 3-D cultures of human brain cells that replicate brain functions such as learning and memory, and which can form drastically more connections than even the best computer chips. "The vision of OI [organoid intelligence] is to use the power of the biological system to advance the field of live sciences, bioengineering, and computer science," Lena Smirnova, a JHU