Lab-Grown Brain Cells Are Playing Pong But Scientists Have More Than Gaming In Mind

Lab-Grown Brain Cells Are Playing Pong But Scientists Have More Than Gaming In Mind
Pong became one of the first commercially successful video games when it was released in 1972. It’s a simple game with just one control input. It’s so simple, in fact, that scientists at a company called Cortical Labs have grown a “mini-brain” in the lab that can play it. The cluster of neurons didn’t need to be told how to play Pong—it just

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