Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong faster than an AI

By Michael Le Page

Living encephalon cells successful a crockery tin larn to play the video crippled Pong erstwhile they are placed successful what researchers picture arsenic a “virtual crippled world”. “We deliberation it’s just to telephone them cyborg brains,” says Brett Kagan, main technological serviceman of Cortical Labs, who leads the research.

Many teams astir the satellite person been studying networks of neurons successful dishes, often increasing them into brain-like organoids. But this is the archetypal clip that mini-brains person been recovered to execute goal-directed tasks, says Kagan.

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