<2>Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week
<3>Breakthrough in Biological Computing
<>Researchers at Cortical Labs have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of biological computing. They used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. This achievement brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applications, like controlling robot arms, reports New Scientist.
<>In 2021, Cortical Labs used its neuron-powered computer chips to play Pong. The chips consisted of clumps of more than 800,000 living brain cells grown on top of microelectrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals. Researchers had to carefully train the chips to control the paddles on either side of the screen.
<>Now, Cortical Labs has developed an interface that makes it easier to program these chips using the popular programming language Python. An independent developer, Sean Cole, then used Python to teach the chips to play Doom, which he did in around a week.
<>Unlike the Pong work that they did a few years ago, which represented years of painstaking scientific effort, this demonstration has been done