Brain-on-a-chip tackles Doom, hinting at a new era of computing
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Australian startup Cortical Labs wired 200,000 human brain cells onto a silicon chip to play Doom, building on Pong experiments as it pitches biological computers that could someday sit in data centers alongside traditional silicon chips for far greater energy efficiency.
Topics:technology#biological-computing#cortical-labs#doom#neural-chips#science-and-technology#startup
- Why a startup is teaching human brain cells to play “Doom” The Economist
- How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom Scientific American
- A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game 'Doom' smithsonianmag.com
- The disembodied brain cells playing video games The Spectator
- You can now rent a brain in the cloud NewsBytes
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