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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

In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s ...
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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.

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 ...

Marathon: How to Play as Thief

Marathon's thief shell is undoubtedly the wildcard of the bunch, giving runners the ability to pickpocket their opponents using a deployable drone, but there's a lot more going on beneath the surface ...

I was pleasantly surprised by this BioShock-coded roguelike FPS, and its latest update adding a speargun has me yearning to dive back in

But Abyssus beat the odds, successfully infusing the power-curve of a roguelike into blasting goons with a gun. Its clever genre synthesis lets your diving suit-clad Brinehunter e ...

1975 Classic Ranked 'Funniest Movie of All Time'

Monty Python and the Holy Grail has been voted the "funniest movie of all time" according to a ranking compiled by TheTopTens. The 1975 classic stars icons John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and ...