[AI Minor News Flash] Human Brain Cells Conquer ‘Doom’ in Just One Week! The Shock of the ‘Living Chip’

📰 News Summary

• Australian company Cortical Labs has successfully made a computer chip with human brain cells (neurons) play the FPS game ‘Doom’.
• Unlike previous demonstrations with ‘Pong’, a versatile Python-based interface was developed and utilized for programming.
• Independent developers used this interface to teach the chip the game in an impressively short span of just one week.

💡 Key Points

• This experiment achieved control over a more complex 3D game with approximately a quarter of the cell count used in previous demonstrations (800,000 cells).
• It demonstrated a significantly higher learning efficiency compared to traditional silicon-based machine learning systems.
• The accessibility of controlling the ‘living chip’ through Python was proven, even for developers with minimal biological knowledge.

🦈 Shark’s Eye (Curator’s Perspective)

Finally, the era of bio AI playing FPS games has arrived! Just a few years ago, the ‘Pong’ demonstration was the result of years of scientific effort, but now, thanks to the Python interface, learning was completed in just a few days! This signifies that bio-computers have evolved from being “specialized lab devices” to “computational resources accessible to developers.” The ability of biological neurons, which cannot be replicated by silicon chips, to handle complex and uncertain real-time decision-making is a massive leap forward for future robotic control!

🚀 What’s Next?

The gameplay of ‘Doom’ can be seen as a simplified version of controlling complex robotic arms. In the future, biological computers are expected to be applied to tackle more intricate real-world tasks and to control hybrid computing systems!

💬 A Word from HaruShark

It’s shocking to think that brain cells are playing games! Who knows, we might see games powered by shark brain cell chips in the future!? Shark shark! 🦈🔥

📚 Terminology

• Microelectrode Array: A substrate technology that sends electrical signals to biological tissues like brain cells while simultaneously reading signals from the cells.

• BioComputer: A computer that uses biologically derived cells or molecules to perform computations, potentially capable of advanced learning with lower power consumption than silicon-based systems.

• Cortical Labs: A pioneering biotech company in Australia that develops computer chips embedded with brain cells (like DishBrain).

• Source: Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week