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Video game Pong: A machine-grown human 'mini-brain' plays a game, could change the world of computers and AI

Brain Cells To Play Video Game Pong: In 2022, Australian biotech company Cortical Labs connected 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish to a computer and taught them to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, ...
GameSpot

A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...
The New York Times

Your Brain on Ping Pong, Ilia Malinin’s Dominance and Saving the N.B.A. All Star Game

Produced by Maggie BurbankJessie BurtonCraig CustanceStephen Lorenzo and Andrew Liu Senior Writer for The Athletic, Rustin Dodd, and world-class coach Matt Hetherington stop by to explain why table ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
The Washington Post

The video game that started it all

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...
GamesIndustry

Roblox debuts tool for players to AI-generate interactive in-game objects, promises "full scene generation" is coming

Roblox has announced a beta tool which enables users to create interactive 3D models from text prompts, an upgrade to its existing 3D asset generation tool revealed last year. The feature was ...
MIT Technology Review

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it. The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI ...
LancasterOnline

Do you remember the first wave of home video games, from Pong to Atari 2600?

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The Verge

Indie Game Awards retracts Expedition 33 prizes due to generative AI

The organization also retracted an award from a game sold by Palmer Luckey’s ModRetro. The organization also retracted an award from a game sold by Palmer Luckey’s ModRetro. is a senior reporter ...
PC Gamer

Sable creative director's new studio aims to make games sustainably rather than 'trying to make loads of money off one big hit project'

Puzzle Devs behind GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters are done with big shooters after getting burned by Embracer, so their next game is a Balatro-like twist on Scrabble—and you can try the ...
Polygon

As the CEO of Arc Raiders publisher Nexon says AI is everywhere, game devs call 'BS'

Arc Raiders' use of AI tools continues to create divides in gaming. The CEO of its developer's parent company, Nexon, recently claimed that generative artificial intelligence tools are everywhere in ...