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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