Cortical Labs specialists created a mini brain and taught his cells to play virtual ping pong. This is reported by the New Scientist edition.
In his experiment, scientists used about a million living brain cells. They were placed in a Petri Cup – a transparent vessel, to which microelectrodes were connected. As a result, the mini-brain was able to play a ping-pong simulator, and ahead of artificial intelligence.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the synthetic brain based on live cells, scientists have created a simplified version of the PONG simulator, in which you need to beat the ball from the wall by a virtual racket. The cell neurons react to the behavior of the ball and correctly placed the racket to repel it.
Leading Researcher Cortical Labs Brett Kagan (Brett Kagan) said that a mini-brain though lost in a simulator to a living person, but demonstrated outstanding ability to learn. If an artificial intelligence for learning to the game needs several thousand approaches, then the brain synthesized by scientists has mastered Pong for five to ten parties.
Kagan noted that the cell collection is appropriate to call the “cyborg brain”, since in the future it will be possible to create bioreobot training.
In April, the startup of Ilona Mask Neuralink showed a chipped monkey playing video games. Animal successfully dug facilities on the screen in the Pong game of thoughts.