{"id":148018,"date":"2022-10-12T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/watch-live-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:22:28","slug":"watch-live-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/watch-live-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live Human Brain Cells in a Dish Learn To Play Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-live-human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Live biological neurons show more about how a brain works than AI ever will.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have shown for the first time that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks. In this case, they played the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong. The results of the Melbourne-led study are published today (October 12) in the journal <em>Neuron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now the researchers are going to investigate what happens when their DishBrain is affected by medicines and alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live biological neurons show more about how a brain works than AI ever will. Scientists have shown for the first time that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks. In this case, they played the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong. The results of the Melbourne-led study are published today (October 12) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}