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Oct 15, 2022

Brain cells in a lab dish learn to play Pong — and offer a window onto intelligence

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment, neuroscience

A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong.

About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game’s electronic ball and control a virtual paddle, a team reports in the journal Neuron.

The novel achievement is part of an effort to understand how the brain learns, and how to make computers more intelligent.

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