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According to some estimates, there is more than a one in four chance in the next decade of another global pandemic. We don’t know whether this will be influenza, a coronavirus (like SARS and COVID), or something completely new. The World Health Organisation refers to this unknown future threat as 'Disease X'.
This brain in a dish could be the start of a whole new field of computing, where silicon and neurons are wired together to produce extraordinarily-powerful artificial intelligences.