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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, ...

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 ...

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?
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Human Brain Cells Learn to Play Doom in Cortical Labs Experiment

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

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 ...

Researchers teach ‘biological computer’ made from human brain cells to play Doom

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.
The Washington Post

The video game that started it all

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...
PC Gamer

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Gaming Industry An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake 'iGaming and sports betting analyst' briefly hit Metacritic AI Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an ...
The New York Times

Your Brain on Ping Pong, Ilia Malinin’s Dominance and Saving the N.B.A. All Star Game

Produced by Maggie BurbankJessie BurtonCraig CustanceStephen Lorenzo and Andrew Liu Senior Writer for The Athletic, Rustin Dodd, and world-class coach Matt Hetherington stop by to explain why table ...
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The NFL season wraps up with the 2026 Big Game on Sunday at Levi's Stadium, and right now you can use the latest DraftKings promo code to get $300 in bonus bets if your first $5 wager wins. The ...
Wall Street Journal

Key Moments in the History of Videogames (and No, ‘Pong’ Wasn’t First)

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. To many people, videogames are a ...
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