{"id":148207,"date":"2022-10-15T01:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/brain-cells-in-a-lab-dish-learn-to-play-pong-and-offer-a-window-onto-intelligence"},"modified":"2022-10-15T01:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T06:23:21","slug":"brain-cells-in-a-lab-dish-learn-to-play-pong-and-offer-a-window-onto-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/brain-cells-in-a-lab-dish-learn-to-play-pong-and-offer-a-window-onto-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells in a lab dish learn to play Pong \u2014 and offer a window onto intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-cells-in-a-lab-dish-learn-to-play-pong-and-offer-a-window-onto-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponggame.org\/\">Pong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game\u2019s electronic ball and control a virtual paddle, a team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(22)00806-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627322008066%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\">reports<\/a> in the journal <em>Neuron<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The novel achievement is part of an effort to understand how the brain learns, and how to make computers more intelligent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dish of living brain cells has learned to play the 1970s arcade game Pong. About 800,000 cells linked to a computer gradually learned to sense the position of the game\u2019s electronic ball and control a virtual paddle, a team reports in the journal Neuron. The novel achievement is part of an effort to understand [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148207","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\/148207","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}