Human Neurons Learn To Play Doom
Australian biotech Cortical Labs says it trained living human neurons grown on microchips to play the 1993 game Doom in a recent laboratory demonstration, using its CL1 biological computer and translating game states into electrical stimulation. The neurons — ranging from hundreds of thousands in prior Pong trials to reports of about 200,000 in the Doom run — learned goal-directed actions within days, highlighting potential uses for biologically based computation or robotics control.
Key Points
- 1Demonstrated living human neurons controlling Doom via electrical stimulation and CL1 biological computer
- 2Showed adaptation and goal-directed learning in vitro within days for complex 3D game environment
- 3Suggests biological computing could inform novel AI architectures or interface with robotics and control systems
Scoring Rationale
Novel demonstration of biological computing but limited by single-company demo, preliminary non-peer-reviewed results, with uncertain scalability.
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