{"id":148025,"date":"2022-10-12T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:25:39","slug":"human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong","title":{"rendered":"Human Brain Cells in a Dish Learn to Play Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-brain-cells-in-a-dish-learn-to-play-pong.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Brain cells grown in a petri dish can perform goal-directed tasks, such as learning to play a game of Pong.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Cortical Labs.<\/p>\n<p>A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks \u2013 in this case the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Brain cells grown in a petri dish can perform goal-directed tasks, such as learning to play a game of Pong. Source: Cortical Labs. A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks \u2013 in this case the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148025","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=148025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}