{"id":29865,"date":"2025-09-22T02:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29865"},"modified":"2025-09-22T02:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:36:02","slug":"what-is-bio-computing-interview-with-ewelina-kurtys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/what-is-bio-computing-interview-with-ewelina-kurtys\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Biocomputing? Interview with Ewelina Kurtys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29866 size-full\" title=\"Beth Barany and Ewelina Kurtys for What is Biocomputing?\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany and Ewelina Kurtys for What is Biocomputing?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29867 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Quote from Ewelina Kurtys\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from Ewelina Kurtys\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/HTWTF-Blog-Images-Episode-171-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is Biocomputing? Interview with Ewelina Kurtys &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 171<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a new field, in which we are trying to use living neurons to process information, and we want to use them as processors, to process information as today we do with computers.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Ewelina Kurtys<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explore the potential of biocomputing in this How To Write the Future podcast episode, as host Beth Barany talks to scientist-turned-strategist, Ewelina Kurtys, where Ewelina shares how living neurons could revolutionize AI with energy-efficient processing in \u201cWhat is Biocomputing? 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Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers.This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers, too, if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>ABOUT EWELINA KURTYS<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29869 size-medium alignleft\" title=\"Ewelina Kurtys\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys-293x300.webp\" alt=\"Image of Ewelina Kurtys\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys-293x300.webp 293w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys-768x788.webp 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys-640x656.webp 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EK_social_media_-_Ewelina_Kurtys.webp 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientist-turned-entrepreneur with a PhD in neuroscience (+20 peer-reviewed papers). After academia, I transitioned into business development and technology commercialization, advising tech companies on sales, partnerships, and market strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I founded Ekai Ltd to support innovation and scale in science-driven companies. My work spans advisory roles, go-to-market planning, and translating complex R&amp;D into real-world impact. I also speak publicly on innovation, neuroscience, and the intersection of science and entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally trained in biology and biomedical science, I expanded into engineering through client projects, gaining experience in signal processing and Python.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/finalspark\/posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/finalspark\/posts\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ewelinakurtys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ewelinakurtys\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for episode 171: What is Bio-computing? Interview with Ewelina Kurtys\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction and Host Welcome\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hi everyone. Welcome to, or welcome back to How to Write the Future Podcast. I&#8217;m your host, Beth Barany. I am an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who is super excited to write in both genres, and both of my series feature strong women heroines going out into the world, being bold, being adventurous, and I started this podcast because I really want to focus on the fact that with story, we can reimagine what we want as humanity. And I vote for positive, optimistic futures &#8217;cause what we envision we can help make it so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I believe writers have a strong gift as well as responsibility to help make that happen. Occasionally, I interview subject matter experts, and I have one of them with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today who I will bring in just a moment. So I just wanna say Welcome, welcome Ewelina. So happy to have you here with us. That&#8217;s so great. We&#8217;re gonna talk about bio-computing in a moment, is that right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes, correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, it&#8217;s such an interesting topic. I&#8217;ve been hearing about it for about the last nine years since I&#8217;ve been writing my science fiction mysteries, my Janey McCallister mystery series, and really fascinated by this topic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you could take a moment and introduce yourself, and then we will dive into the questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello. My name is Ewelina Kurtys. I&#8217;m a strategic advisor at Final Spark, one of the three startups in the world, which try to build computers from living neurons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s amazing. That is amazing. So why don&#8217;t we just start off with: What is bio-computing?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:44] Predictions &amp; Future of Bio-computing\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So bio-computing is actually a new field. So the terminology is not yet fully established. I prefer to use bio-computing, but you can also use other terms like wet ware computing or organoid intelligence. So this is a new field, in which we are trying to use iving neurons to process information and we want to use them as processors, to process information as today we do with computers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why is this technology important? And maybe also if you could say a little bit about why you were attracted to this field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So at first I will say why it&#8217;s important because we can see today that artificial intelligence can have a scalability problem because AI is using an increasing in amount of energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actually the amount of energy which is used is increasing exponentially. So today is still manageable, but we can expect that in the future it can become a problem. So we try to solve this problem by using living neurons for computations because they are 1 million times more energy efficient than digital computers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s the reason why it&#8217;s important and why we believe that it&#8217;s a future for AI. And why I work on this, the reason is because I&#8217;m neuroscientist. I have done research in brain imaging. I was always fascinated with brain. And after I left academia, I started to work in industry. I started to discover new areas, and I discovered artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I realized how important it is, how many crazy things you can do. I become fascinated. I trained myself in the field, and I was working a lot in the commercial applications of artificial intelligence and now I work on step farther, you could say, on the future of artificial intelligence, which is bio-computing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is how we see future of AI in around 10 years when we can do, we can run artificial and intelligence algorithm on the living neurons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That just blows me away. I remember hearing years ago about using crystals or quartz or diamonds and, and organic material for computing. So is that just my science fiction brain putting things together that maybe haven&#8217;t been put together or is that also like a part of, of bio-computing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, it&#8217;s not part of bio-computing, but it&#8217;s part of bigger field, which is called &#8220;unconventional computing&#8221;. And there are actually many ideas. Also, quantum computing is one of the type.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So unconventional computing is everything different than digital, what we have today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there are actually many ideas, and people try to make computation with fungi, with bacteria, with DNA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there are many, many ideas on how to do computations in different way, and we belong to that field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So the, the broader field of, what did you call it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unconventional computing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unconventional computing. Okay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And then there are many, many different fields inside, including bio-computing on living neurons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Okay. And so can you paint a picture for me? Are you there working with petri dishes, or like what, at what scale are the, is the organic matter?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And maybe today, what is it that you can have it do? I have heard about, fungus and, and what it can do. Um, but I&#8217;m wondering, yeah. What does that look like in in in your field specifically, or what you&#8217;re working on specifically?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So, at the moment it&#8217;s everything is very small. We work on the 3D structures of living neurons, which we call neurospheres. So they&#8217;re such a round block of cells, 10,000 cells each. We put them on the electrodes. So at the moment is very, everything is small. It&#8217;s a small scale, and we try to discover the basic algorithm on how to program neurons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Okay. And, and when you say small, can you give me a comparison? Is it like a small, as a coin, smaller than that? Do you have to use a microscope?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Smaller. Definitely, so it&#8217;s actually like half millimeter diameter is one neurosphere, which we put on the electrodes. And actually, if you want to see this visually, you can go on our website <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/finalspark.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">finalspark.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have section live. And there is a camera view from our laboratory on how it looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And so looking into the future, you mentioned 10 years from now AI will be run on bio computers. Is that hard, like a hard prediction? Or is that a wish? Is it somewhere in between?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> No, it&#8217;s our estimation. We have been made some specific plans for our research. We are talking currently to investors. We are seeking 50 million Swiss francs of investment. And we think that with this investment we can accelerate our research. With investor, we plan to solve the problem of learning in vitro. So how to teach neurons, some basic algorithm in the next two, three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After around three years for advanced algorithm to match the performance of digital computers, and then around three years for scaling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we want to make huge structures, even a hundred meters long of neurons, which will be so-called bio server. It will be remotely available computational power the same way as today cloud computing. So we assume it will take us 10 years to arrive to this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And you said that one of the advantages over the energy usages of the computers running AI systems is some kind of energy efficiency with bio-computing. How can that be the case? Is it because everything is so much faster or it uses less energy to power the same kind of computations? And again, is this more of a guess, or is this like based on actual experiments that you&#8217;re doing in the lab?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[07:41] Energy Efficiency: Brain vs. Computer<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, we cannot really measure this, this yet, but there are some publications which compare human brain to digital computer. And they estimate that human brain is around million time times more energy efficient. And we know also that to stimulate human brain, we would need small nuclear plant. And we can run on one banana for all day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From this are these calculations about energy efficiency, and of course, in our bio- computing at this stage we can store one bit of information. So this is a little bit early to measure real efficiency of bio-computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can you explain to me again what you were just saying about a nuclear power plant?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you saying it would take one nuclear power plant to make our brains go? Tell me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> No, no, no. To simulate, to simulate what happens in our brain with digital technologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ah, okay. Because the human brain is so much more energy efficient than any computer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes. And actually there are a lot of considerations about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also wrote recently a blog article about this, which is on my LinkedIn, comparing different aspects. So we know that brain is actually processing information, encoding information, totally different way comparing to digital. So brain is encoding information in time and space, so it matters when exactly and where in your brain neurons are active.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is totally different type of encoding than zero- ones in computers. Also, in brain you have a lot of recurrent connections, which are, a little bit more difficult in digital, not so common. And also, you have a lot of filtering information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we can treat in hierarchical way information. So not everything has the same importance like in the computer, although there are some solutions for that. But, more or less in the computer, every information is the same importance. We can filter, we can focus on most important things and let&#8217;s say ignore less important ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, we can, for example, when we analyze images with our brain, we can only for example, we can detect. So we can spend energy only when we detect the differences in our field of view, while computer would analyze all the pixels, for example.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So these are just, there are many, many examples on how brain is more efficient also because, memory and computation happens in the same, place in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the brain. So that also increases the efficiency because you don&#8217;t have to spend energy on, on the changing the location of the information, like in usual digital computers. So there are many ways, how you can explain this energy efficiency of the brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s fascinating. I&#8217;m very fascinated by the idea that the brain is actually making choices about our reality before we&#8217;re consciously aware. That pattern recognition is solely based on our previous experience. And if we want to have new experiences and new understandings, we actually have to input new things that we have never seen before. So our brain can make new patterns. So that essentially our brain is a predicting machine, and all coming down to being super energy efficient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One brain scientist talks about it being: our brain it wants to keep us alive. Therefore, it wants to save as much energy as possible. Therefore, it is making constant predictions about every single word I&#8217;m gonna say next. Everything I might even understand in terms of coding emotion, what it means when someone makes a certain facial gesture&#8211;all of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s all based on this predictive model happening way below our conscious awareness. So is bio-computing somehow looking at that is, oh, how do we take advantage of that? I know it is early days yet, but that&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m fascinated about. So I was wondering how does that apply, if at all, to the field of bio-computing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, I think for now it&#8217;s a little bit difficult to compare because we are at the stage of one bit of information. So let&#8217;s see what the future will bring, and then we will see with experiments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Absolutely. So, I know this is a brief interview today and, and it is such a vast topic. So where can people find out more about this work, of bio-computing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Our website is a good resource. We have also some articles. We have a lot of information, final spark.com. We also have Discord account. We build a community there. There are a lot of technical discussions also. So I recommend this. Also on our website, you can find the link to Discord. Also we have LinkedIn page and, X page. So we try to communicate our work widely. And we also talk a lot to podcasters and journalists because we would like that this new field of bio-computing is more recognized in the society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s really wonderful. And as I I told to you before I even started recording, I have a nephew who wants to go into the field of biotech and for all the young people who may be listening to this, what recommendations do you have about where to put their attention in terms of, of their education?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know my, my nephew is doing his biology and chemistry as well as computer sciences. So yeah, any recommendations for the younger generation who are curious about this unconventional computing and specifically bio-computing?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[13:09] Advice for Future Generations\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EWELINA KURTYS:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So I always recommend people to follow what they&#8217;re interested in because the future is unpredictable and we cannot really know what will be the jobs and what will be the market in 10 years or 20. So I think the surest bet is to follow what you&#8217;re interested in. And then you can always change and you can learn something new, some new skills if there will be necessary. But if you do what you like, it&#8217;s much easier also to learn new stuff and to keep going. It&#8217;s much more pleasant. So I really recommend to follow the interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, if someone is specifically interested in bio-computing, they are recommended to check our paper in Frontiers. And it&#8217;s a blend of biology and engineering. So there is also such a trend, maybe in education. And also you can see this in research and in private companies, there are more and more projects which combine biology and engineering, and I think it&#8217;s quite hot now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, still I really recommend to do what someone is interested and enjoy because the trends can always change. So we don&#8217;t know, but there is a lot, currently a lot of interesting projects on combining biology engineering, so people who understand biology but can also code, code and maybe build some hardware. So that&#8217;s interesting mix.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[14:27] Closing &amp; Where to Learn More\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I really love that advice. I wish someone had handed me more engineering skill sets when I was younger. I had the mindset of a builder, but I didn&#8217;t have the skillset. And I mean now I am a builder of, of media and podcasts and film and books and courses, et cetera. So, I want to say, let me put myself here in the spotlight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ewelina Kurtys, thank you so much for being a guest on How To Write The Future. 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