One research has achieved something totally impossible until now: that some neurons can play a video game autonomously. This was the process by which I was able to create such a neural structure.
The researchers cultivated brain cells in a laboratory that learned to play the legendary video game Pong developed in the 70s. And not only that, they say that their mini brain has a structure that can sense and respond to its environment. That's how neurons work.
In the magazine Neuron, Dr. Brett Kagan, from the company Cortical Labs, claims to have created the first "sensitive" brain grown in the laboratory on a plate. Other experts describe the work as "exciting", but they say that calling the sensitive cerebral cells is going too far.
The mini brains were manufactured for the first time in 2013, to study microcephaly, a genetic disorder in which the brain is too small, and since then they have been used to investigate the development of the brain.
But this is the first time that it connects and interacts with an external environment, in this case a video game. And no one, but the first success in the history of the sector.

How did they create this little brain

The research team grew human brain cells cultured from stem cells and some from mouse embryos to a collection of 800,000.
Then they connected it to the video game by means of electrodes that revealed where the ball was and at what distance from the blade. In response, the cells produced their own electrical activity. The curious thing is that they spent less energy as the game continued.

Artificial neurons also need to sleep

But when the ball passed through a paddle and the game restarted with the ball at a random point, it took more time to recalibrate the structure to a new unpredictable situation. The mini brain learned to play in five minutes.

He often missed the ball, but his success rate was much higher than that of chance. Although he is not aware, he does not know that he is playing Pong as a human player would, the researchers emphasize. We don't know what the neurons are like in Battlefield.