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.
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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- Read OriginalScientists Just Taught Lab-Grown Brain Cells to Play Video Games — and People Are Freaked Outthegatewaypundit.com
- Read OriginalHuman brain cells on a chip learn to play Doomtheregister.com
- Read OriginalLiving machines? Scientists implant human brain cells on a chip and they learn to play Doomtimesofindia.indiatimes.com
