Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of DOOM?

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Cove Street Capital analyzes the AI market mania and shifting software valuations. Read the full analysis for more details.

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

In this episode, Ray tackles Anthropic's standoff with the U.S. Department of War after CEO Daria Amodei refused to grant ...