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Computer made of human brain cells taught how to play Doom

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. Researchers at a Melbourne start-up Cortical Labs have taught their "biological computer" made from living human brain cells to play Doom. Dr A-lon Loeffler is a Synthetic Biological Intelligence scientist at Cortical Labs and spoke to Guyon Espiner.

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