{"id":15639,"date":"2024-08-23T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:39:39","slug":"scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found a soft and squidgy water-rich gel is not only able to play the video game Pong, but gets better at it over time.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come almost two years after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/13\/scientists-teach-brain-cells-to-play-virtual-pong\"> brain cells in a dish were taught how to play<\/a> the 1970s classic, a result the researchers involved said showed \u201csomething that resembles intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f1179f4bcbeaabd73e177ad82d2a3aa00cd77a9d\/0_13_3306_1983\/master\/3306.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8e4e2519f7f08c61b2c6da9d867c81ed\" title=\"Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game\" \/>Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience<br \/>\nResearchers have found a soft and squidgy water-rich gel is not only able to play the video game Pong, but gets better at it over time.<br \/>\nThe findings come almost two years after brain cells in a dish were taught how to play the 1970s classic, a result the researchers involved said showed \u201csomething that resembles intelligence\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience Researchers have found a soft and squidgy water-rich gel is not only able to play the video game Pong, but gets better at it over time. The findings come almost two years after brain cells in a dish were &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists enable hydrogel to play and improve at Pong video game<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}