Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.

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  • @PaulDevonUKEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Aren’t regions of the brain associated with function? What region is picked for harvesting?

    Brain stem is probably predictable but rather basic.

    • AndyEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      The rat neurons were harvested from the frontal cortex, and the human neurons were harvested from fibroblasts in a baby’s foreskin, and then given chemical signals to make them into stem cells, and then to make those stem cells turn into frontal lobe neurons.