Australian researchers train brain cells to play Doom (opens in new tab)

Australian researchers at Cortical Labs trained lab-grown human brain cells on a silicon chip to play the 1990s shooter game “Doom,” AFP reported from Melbourne. The system follows earlier work in which the same biological computing approach learned to play “Pong”. Each “biological computer” contains about 200,000 living human brain cells grown from stem cells derived from blood donations. Cortical Labs senior application scientist Alon Loeffler told AFP the neurons initially behaved like beg...