Human Brain Cells Just Learned to Play Doom in One Week?!

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1:03just a week, something something man-made horrors. Here's a clip of the video. You can see what's going on here. I mean, it's pretty good at doom. It is, but do you want brain chips? I mean, do we really want brain chips? This episode is brought to you by Redfin. You're listening to a podcast, which means you're probably multitasking. Maybe even scrolling home listings on Redfin, saving homes without expecting to get them. But Redfin isn't just built for endless browsing. It's built to help you find and own a home. With agents who close twice as many deals, when you find the one, you've got a real shot at getting it. Get started at Redfin.com. Own the dream. I think this is definitely pushing it. I think that is the next evolution of computing. It is kind of scary. This is coming from new scientists. Human brain cells on a chip learn to play doom in a week.

2:04A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game doom while its performance is not up to par with humans. Okay, so it needs some practice yet. Experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real world applications like controlling robot arms and probably also sex dolls or something horrifying like that. In 2021, the Australian company Cortical Labs used its neuron power computer chips to play pong. The chips consist of clumps of more than 800,000 living brain cells grown on top of micro electrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals researchers had to carefully train the chips to control the paddles and now it's playing doom. So we've gone from pong to doom and next year it's going to be like Elden Ring or something. They develop an interface that makes it easier to program these chips using the popular programming language Python and independent developer Sean Cole use Python to teach the chips to play doom, which he did in a week. Unlike pong, unlike the pong work we did a few years ago, which represented years of

3:05painstaking scientific effort. This demonstration has been done in a matter of days by someone who previously had relatively little expertise working directly with biology. It's this accessibility and this flexibility that makes it truly exciting. I don't know if exciting is the word I would use. I have concerns. Now we're talking like cyborgs being trained to shoot. I mean, do we want that? It's not useful to compare the chips with real human brains. They said it's alive. Yes, it's biological, but really what it's being used for is as material that can process information in very special ways that we can't recreate in silicon. Oh, just wait a few years. Just wait, guys. It's coming. I'm just saying.