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Darren Allan

Can it play Doom? This biocomputer built on human brain cells just learned to shoot demons, but not everyone's convinced

Cortical Labs CL1 playing Doom.

  • The CL1 'biological computer' has been shown playing Doom
  • This is essentially 200,000 human neurons plopped on a microchip
  • This brain soup has apparently learned to find and shoot enemies in the game, although skeptics are arguing about the definition of 'playing' here
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