Iran Claims to Have Created an Artificial Brain
Iran claims they have been able to create a brain in a laboratory. (Representational Photo: Collected)
Iran has claimed to have developed a laboratory-scale artificial brain using living human neurons. Officials say this technology has made it possible to create a neural network capable of learning. With this, Iran has crossed a new threshold in the global race for organoid-intelligence-based technologies.
The information was shared by Ataullah Pour Abbasi, Secretary of Iran's Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Development Taskforce.
He said Iran has mastered the technology of growing and preserving neurons outside the human body. These neurons can establish connections with one another to form neural networks capable of learning, just as naturally occurs in the human brain. "This is the foundation for creating brain-cell-based computer processors."
Pour Abbasi claimed that a domestic institution has already developed a laboratory prototype of this technology. He noted two major advantages: first, information processing speeds are much higher than conventional technologies; and second, power consumption could be up to about one million times lower than that of traditional silicon-based chips.
He said the technology has not yet reached the commercial stage, but Iran has acquired the complete technical knowledge from start to finish entirely on its own. "In terms of achieving technological capability, our country is advancing at the same pace as the world's leading nations."
According to experts, organoid intelligence—or biological information processing technology—involves building computing systems using living human neurons that, like the human brain, can process vast amounts of data in parallel while consuming extremely low amounts of energy. Source: Mehr News Agency
