{"id":150834,"date":"2022-11-22T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/800000-neurons-in-a-dish-learned-to-play-pong-in-just-five-minutes"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T04:24:48","slug":"800000-neurons-in-a-dish-learned-to-play-pong-in-just-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/800000-neurons-in-a-dish-learned-to-play-pong-in-just-five-minutes","title":{"rendered":"800,000 Neurons in a Dish Learned to Play Pong in Just Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/800000-neurons-in-a-dish-learned-to-play-pong-in-just-five-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stimulations were critical for their learning. Separate experiments with <i>DishBrain<\/i> without any electrical feedback performed far worse.<\/p>\n<p><b>Game On<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The study is a proof of concept that neurons in a dish can be a sophisticated learning machine, and even exhibit signs of sentience and intelligence, said Kagan. That\u2019s not to say they\u2019re conscious\u2014rather, they have the ability to adapt to a goal when \u201cembodied\u201d into a virtual environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stimulations were critical for their learning. Separate experiments with DishBrain without any electrical feedback performed far worse. Game On The study is a proof of concept that neurons in a dish can be a sophisticated learning machine, and even exhibit signs of sentience and intelligence, said Kagan. That\u2019s not to say they\u2019re conscious\u2014rather, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150834","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}