How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom

The Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently posted a video in which 200,000 living human neurons grown on a silicon chip played the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. The neuron-controlled main character wandered corridors, encountered enemies and fired weapons—clumsily, and it died often. But the neurons were playing nonetheless. The demo could mark a genuine inflection…

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