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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.
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Video game Pong: A machine-grown human 'mini-brain' plays a game, could change the world of computers and AI

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?

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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I Spent a Grueling 10 Days Doing Nothing but Catching Pythons. Then Something Incredible Happened.

This as-told-to is based on a conversation with 29-year-old Taylor Stanberry, the grand prize winner at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...