Intro — did a dish of human neurons really play Doom?

0:00It's called wetwware engineering and it's effectively neurons, human neurons plus electronics. So you cut out the middleman. The learning mechanism is literally minimizing surprise. If on the other hand it misses, it's going to get 4 seconds at 20 volts of highly chaotic electrical activity. So now I can very easily ask who is actually doing the learning. Correct? Is it my reinforcement learning network or is it the actual biological neurons that I have? >> Doesn't count. Hello internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Nar joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery. And today we're

0:43going to be talking about a topic that sounds like it's something straight out of science fiction, which is did a dish full of human neurons successfully play Doom? the video game. Now, this is something that has been hyped in the news over the last two to three weeks with everyone trying to understand is