Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers studying diseases, therapies, and treatments. Then, there’s the biological type of computer that’s been a couple billion years in the making—the human brain, which has neurons and a cerebral cortex instead of transistors and a motherboard. Cortical Labs, an Australia-based company, announced earlier this year that it had successfully developed the world’s first “biological computer,” which it calls the CL-1. As Kagan explained at the time, DishBrain played Pong quite unlike a human brain, and instead described the neurons as sort of experiencing its surroundings as if it was the Pong paddle itself. The Cortical Labs team argues that Synthetic Biological Intelligence, or SBI, is “inherently more natural than AI” because it uses materials more akin to the human brain.