One of Kurt Russell's earliest roles was as a computer in the family sci-fi comedy, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

Now, Cortical Labs has successfully developed a brain-on-a-chip computer primarily designed to aid scientists and researchers studying diseases, therapies, and treatments. The new computer—called CL-1 ...

But how does a computer really stack up against a human brain? “For example, AlphaGo (the AI that beat the world’s No. 1 Go player in 2017) was trained on data from 160,000 games,” Hartung said.