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Scientists Play Doom on Human Brain Cells
The 1993 video game Doom was one of the earliest first-person shooter games and popularized the genre. It has become a hobby among eccentric engineers to play the game on unconventional platforms, such as a chainsaw, a rotary phone, and a cooking pot.It was only a matter of time before the engineers started to go too far. Now, New Scientist reports, the Australian firm Cortical Labs has been able to run the game of Doom on human brain tissue.In …
Doom has turned on calculators, vamps and even bacteria. This time, it is true human neurons cultivated in the laboratory that hold the controller.
It sounds like science fiction, but it's reality: a computer made of human cells plays an ego shooter. But the real miracle is not the game itself, but who programmed it and how quickly it went (allegedly). read more on t3n.de
As early as 2021, Cortical Labs demonstrated that human neurons can play on a chip pong. Now, the neuro-chip system can even play doom - after just a week of development.
Doom-Playing Brain Cells: How a Swiss Lab Taught Human Neurons on a Chip to Frag Demons in Just Five Days
A team of researchers at a Swiss startup has accomplished something that sounds ripped from a science fiction screenplay: they grew human brain cells on a semiconductor chip and taught the resulting biological-digital hybrid to play the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. The miniature brain-on-a-chip learned to engage enemies, explore corridors, and rack up kills within roughly five days of training — a result that has stunned neuroscientists and a…
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