Human Neurons Learn To Play Doom

Australian biotech Cortical Labs says it trained living human neurons grown on microchips to play the 1993 game Doom in a recent laboratory demonstration, using its CL1 biological computer and translating game states into electrical stimulation. The neurons — ranging from hundreds of thousands in prior Pong trials to reports of about 200,000 in the Doom run — learned goal-directed actions within days, highlighting potential uses for biologically based computation or robotics control.