800K Brain Cells in Petri Dish Playing Doom Is Freaking Out the Internet

In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have achieved a remarkable feat that blurs the lines between biology and technology. Cortical Labs has cultivated 800K brain cells in a petri dish, ...
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200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Just Learned to Play Doom and This Is Just the Start of It

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...
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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...