A new research has discovered that artificial intelligence has learned to imitate the human brain: but if there is one thing it still can't do better than us, it's playing Pong.
It seems that the skill in this game is so strong that it is ingrained in our brain cells. Literally! Check it out if you don't believe it.
Brain Cells Playing Pong?
Other than monkeys of Neuralink: the scientists of the biotech startup Cortical Labs they created “little brains” with live human brain cells. And they teach these brains to play a one-player version of Pong. As? Using electrodes that send signals to the cells, which tell them where the ball is. The mini-brain uses its neurons to move the racket.
Okay, if you haven't run away in constant panic yet. Brett Kagan, scientific director of Cortical Labs who also led the project, says that brain cells “trained” in vitro learned to play faster than some artificial intelligences. They still can't beat a whole human, true, but they do well. Imagine when they learn enough: it will be humiliating to lose from a plastic saucer with cells inside.
However, it took the brain cells just five minutes to acquire this ability. “It's really an amazing thing,” Kagan says.
I can hardly believe it.
“We think it's right call them cyborg brains”
Brett Kagan, Cortical Labs
“When the brain cells are in the game, they think they are the racket,” Kagan says. Someone has already observed that this makes any simulation theory much less bizarre. Who or what do we think we are? And what are we really?
However, this discovery has some truly profound implications. According to this lab, it will foster the development of “biological computing” chips in which brain cells and neurons can fill in the gaps of machine learning and vice versa.
