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Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next?

Cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence.
  1. Heidi Ledford
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Hundreds of thousands of human neurons growing in a dish coated with electrodes have been taught to play a version of the classic computer game Pong1.

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Nature 610, 433 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03229-y

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