Australian researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom'
Researchers at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of lab-grown human brain cells to play the video game 'Doom'. By converting game stimuli into electrical signals, the neurons demonstrated the ability to adapt and perform goal-directed tasks.
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This research explores the intersection of synthetic biology and computing, potentially leading to new types of biological hardware that can learn and adapt in real-time.
MELBOURNE : Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game Doom and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing.
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