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17 hours ago

Digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers

Eon Systems created a digital simulation of a fruit fly brain controlling a virtual body that reproduces recognizable insect behaviors using connectome data and neural modeling.
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18 hours ago

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Cortical Labs in Melbourne taught a dish of lab-grown neurons to play Pong in 2022. Now it has built what it describes as the world's first code-deployable biological computer, running on living human tissue rather than silicon chips, which is happily playing the 1993 shooter Doom. At first it didn't know how to move, aim or shoot. Then it would shoot two enemies and stop. So it's definitely learning.
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