A dish of living human neurons has been taught to play Doom. No, it isn’t conscious or watching the screen the way players do. But it is learning to respond to signals in a way that produces ...

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...

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Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Scientists have demonstrated that human brain cells grown on a microchip can learn to play id Software’s classic first-person ...