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DishBrain plays Pong and promises more

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An in vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong. This feat opens up an avenue towards the convergence of biological and machine intelligence.

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Fig. 1: DishBrain uses human and mouse brain cells to learn to play a game of Pong through a microelectrode array as the interface.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by US National Institutes of Health grants R01CA237267, R01EB032716 and R01EB031885.

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  1. Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

    Joshua Goldwag

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Biomedical Imaging Center, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Ge Wang

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Goldwag, J., Wang, G. DishBrain plays Pong and promises more. Nat Mach Intell 5, 568–569 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00666-w

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