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Disability activist and writer Alice Wong died over the weekend. Read one of her obituaries to learn about her legacy.

‘We’re not trying to create a mind in a dish’

Two years ago, Lena Smirnova and her colleagues coined the term “organoid intelligence,” arguing that brain organoids — artificial mini-brains made in a lab from stem cells — could be capable of learning, classification, and control. The lab’s work has taken them a step in that direction this year, after they found the organoids are able to do things that resemble the biological building blocks of learning and memory.

This isn’t a Frankenstein scenario, the researchers say. Rather, the goal is to better u

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