Whatever you do, don’t call them "mini-brains," say University of Utah Health scientists. Name aside, the seed-sized organoids—which are grown in the lab from human cells—provide insights into the ...

A dish of brain cells learned to play the 1970s video game Pong. The research could help computers become more intelligent A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong.

Over the last half-century, psychedelics have radically transformed from public enemy number one to the plucky wunderkind promising to transform psychiatry, particularly mental health. Across the ...

(CNN) — The video game Pong is such a simple concept, anyone can play — even a dish of brain cells, according to scientists. Researchers connected the neurons — the cells responsible for receiving ...

A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks—in this case the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong. The results of the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Another leap in the field of artificial intelligence happened after a team of scientists showed 800,000 brain cells playing a tennis-like computer game, Pong, while living in a ...

Scientists in Australia have demonstrated that clusters of brain cells in a lab dish can be taught to play Pong in an approximation of sentience. This is the first time that these cells have shown the ...

A team of researchers in Australia has been awarded more than $403,000 in federal funding to merge human brain cells with artificial intelligence. Melbourne's Monash University, which led the research ...

MARTINEZ: That's right - the original table tennis arcade game from the 1970s. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that this novel achievement is part of a larger effort to understand how brain cells learn.

A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game's electronic ball and control ...