Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

Few games have been meme-ified quite like Doom, and in the past, many have capitalized on the joke. Scientists have gotten E. coli cells to play it and taught rats how to shoot in it. Others have even ...
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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

Big Walk is emblematic of how Panic operates its gaming business. Sasser says there are no “hard-and-fast rules” about how it approaches the titles it works on. “It’s really just like: What will this ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...