To Boldly Grow... Live Brain Cells that Learn to Play Pong
summary
Cortical Labs grows millions of human iPSC cortical cells on microelectrode arrays and records from thousands of electrodes to run sub‑millisecond closed‑loop stimulation; neural cultures are partitioned into sensory and motor zones and shaped with predictable versus random pulse sequences (free energy principle) so the cultures learn to play Pong; results are peer‑reviewed in Neuron and include an epilepsy model that only learns after anti‑epileptic drug treatment.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:16Dish brain system
- 3:04Teaching neurons Pong
- 4:29Behavior feedback loops
- 5:36Live demonstration
- 6:53Human cells anticipation
- 7:13First transistor milestone
- 7:34Wet wear as service
- 7:54Drug discovery epilepsy
- 8:15Metaverse future vision
- 8:37Perfusion circuit computation
- 9:42Synthetic biological intelligence
- 10:04Closing Q&A
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