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

153 points by EchoOfOppenheimer 6 hours ago on reddit | 64 comments

A new report from The Guardian reveals that scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully taught a petri dish containing 200.000 living human brain cells to play the 1993 video game Doom. Built on a glass chip this biological computer is learning to move aim and shoot without any silicon processors.