These brain cells can play Pong

A bunch of brain cells in a dish can play pong. Seriously. With this Pong game, scientists showed that neurons in vitro can perform a goal-oriented task - which is different from just simulating brain activity as we’ve done before. The name some experts are using for this area of research is “organoid intelligence” - “OI” as opposed to “AI"...

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[Chewbacca]

If they teach dish brain a language and it spells "HELP ME" ... permanent nightmare fuel

[shanetuma]

"What is my purpose?"
"You play pong"

[deltatrooper]

Imagine comming back from vacation only to find that your PC died because you didn't feed it

[matthewshields]

In 50 years when your computer gets dementia...

[careemcaptionhadi]

It really is fascinating what the future of biology looks like

[roydaboy]

"Yo you wanna play videogames?"
"Yeah lemme boot up my BrainStation."

[literalsarcasm]

Ooh, a new nightmarish state of consciousness just dropped

[vgman]

That feeling when my last brain cells are playing pong instead of listening to that story mom’s told me for the 219th time.

[meilaoshi]

“Optimistic stories” she says after describing what sounds like the start to a horror movie about brain cells in a dish being forced to be a computer.

[timothybodey]

As if the issue of "when is AI considered conscious" wasn't already a hot topic.

[Ryan_vdp]

wait till that one guy finishes making rat neurons play doom

[gregdenson]

Some of these scientists never read science fiction as a kid and it shows.

[debug]

imagine waking up to the world and the first thing you know is playing pong

[andreaf]

this raises a lot of ethical questions especially in the near future when these cells develop more

[BlueBean...]

Have to say the terror this video brought me was mildly reduced at the sight of Arnold Schwarzenegger

[markmuller]

Videogames, bio-computers and the universe started with pong

[justsomememer]

I was born, playing a never ending game of pong against myself, with no concept of time or space…

[IHAVENOGLORY]

imagine having literal braincells play ping pong with eachother before GTA VI

[Rex_Starborne]

Ah yes, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.

[anavmahajan]

Okay now this is the foundation for cyborgs