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Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? | Part 1

The Thought Emporium

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The Thought Emporium attempts to culture rat neurons on a multi-electrode array and train them to play the video game Doom.

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What people say. Recommended as a fascinating demonstration of biological computing and culturing neural networks to interface with technology.

zonkerdonkerin Hacker News • Recommends

On “First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids”

Anyone ineterested in more wetware projects should check out the series from The Thought Emporium on youtube: link to this video They are attempting to train a (literal) neural network to play DOOM. And yes, it os as fascinating and horrifying as it sounds. It's hard not to extrapolate 50 years down the line with this tech. Stuff gets complicated quick. How many human neurons do you have to use before you get an actual human consiousness?
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chneuin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market”

The YouTuber "The Thought Emporium" has been working on a similar project for a few years. link to this video They run an amazing channel that covers a variety of topics. Highly recommend. The mummification video is fun.
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fenykepin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1”

I think the Thought Emporium youtube channel has some explanatory videos( link to this video ) of the whole process. I couldn't wrap my head around the thing tho.
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seesawtronin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Mathematical theory predicts self-organized learning in real neurons”

Karl Friston has been a long time proponent of the free energy principle in brain 0. This paper claims to have found evidence that supports this principle in "neurons on a chip" based system 1 0 link 1 link to this video
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panarchyin Hacker News • Mentions

On “'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware”

link to this video Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM? The Thought Emporium link Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer The Thought Emporium
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vinnyvichyin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”

…d" and "sustainability" pages on their site. Finer point: even before the industrial revolution, humans have had access to supercomputers -- their own brains! It's conceivable that in the not so far future we will be able to grow computers of our own design, from just air and water. See promising efforts in this direction, it's not an empty dream! link to this video I guess the moral of the day with regards to banks and finance is, don't jump the gun! We will need them until we can grow raspberry pies on a tree!…
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hiatusin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month”

Thought Emporium on YouTube made a few videos utilizing organoid bio processors but iirc their neuron source is pig not human. link to this video
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seesawtronin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month”

…ta from neurons, Log all the data in a database, and Display graphically the results of experiments for further analysis. I was too busy to come up with a clear project idea that could beat alreadty existing stuff such as neurons playing Doom 0 (not related to FinalSpark). Still waiting for someone to show something cool using this platform. 0 link to this video…
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seesawtronin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month”

How hard is it to do something like this on your platform 0? Are there any other real-world examples where people are using your platform to do something similar? 0 link to this video
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skulkin Hacker News • Mentions

On “The CL1: the first code deployable biological computer”

The Thought Emporium, a YouTube channel, has some videos that demonstrate how something like this could be built: Growing Rat neurons to play DOOM (unfinished): part 1 -- link to this video part 2 -- link Growing human neurons: link
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preisschildin Hacker News • Mentions

On “I don't think AGI is right around the corner”

> Maybe our first AGI is just a Petri dish brain with a half-decent python API This reminds me of The Thought Emporium's project of teaching rat brain cells to play doom link to this video
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