Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong

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Living brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong when they are placed in what researchers describe as a "virtual game world". "We think it's fair to call them cyborg brains," says Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer of Cortical Labs, who leads the research.

Many teams around the world have been studying networks of neurons in dishes, often growing them into brain-like organoids. But this is the first time mini-brains have been found to perform goal-directed tasks, says Kagan.

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"Human brain cells in a dish play Pong" are words I never knew I would ever read

terriblehumanbeing

Imagine waking up to a never ending game of pong

joegrizzly

I'm just imagining an incredibly compact mini consciousness experiencing nothing but pure euphoria every time it gets feedback that it successfully hit the ball with its paddle.

SilverAura

let me know when they can run doom on a brain

frogz

🧠"what is my purpose?"
👩‍⚕️"Your purpose is Pong"

graphite

"...And on the synth is the synthetic brain."

FredSpade

watching things like this makes me more confident we are living in a simulation conducted by exponentially smarter beings

megatroneata

i remember the first time i played an Atari and my brain cells learned to play pong...

kreendurron

Sweet, manmade horrors beyond our comprehension!

domd

Can anyone interested in the subject explain how exactly do they train them? How do they tell cells what is a good outcome and bad outcome.

paxon

I have no mouth and I must scream vibes from this

kholemcrae

"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? "

Nightmarefhk

Sensational and frightening if you think ahead about what could be possible, absolute madness!

leniortega

How did us humans go from haha let’s make rocket to the moon, to haha let’s make human brain to play Pong

Glitched-Games

It's fascinating, but scary at the same time. What are the ramifications of this? Can these brain cells be considered to be a living human? If they become part of an artificial brain in a robot some day, and the robot does something really bad, is the robot to blame, the person that trained the robot brain, or humanity itself? I don't see how this would be an artificial brain, when it's using real brain cells. Seems to me if it's real brain cells, effectively it's a real person, too (just without a real body).

daniellynes