{"id":8043,"date":"2022-11-25T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/no-one-had-seen-anything-like-it-how-video-game-pong-changed-the-world\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T10:37:29","slug":"no-one-had-seen-anything-like-it-how-video-game-pong-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/no-one-had-seen-anything-like-it-how-video-game-pong-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No one had seen anything like it\u2019: how video game Pong changed the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators \u2013 and those they influenced \u2013 hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic<\/p>\n

Pong: a game so simple a bundle of lab-grown brain cells could play it. This might sound like a low blow, but it\u2019s true \u2013 last month, Australia-based startup Cortical Labs<\/a> challenged its creation DishBrain, a biological computer chip that uses a combination of living neurons and silicon, to play the early console classic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game \u2013 a 2D version of table tennis where players control a rectangle \u201cpaddle\u201d, moving it up and down to rally a ball \u2013 ran in the background, wired up to the DishBrain. Electrical stimulations were fed into the cells to represent the placement of the paddle and feedback was pinged when the ball was hit or missed. The scientists then measured the DishBrain\u2019s response, observing that it expended more or less energy depending on the position of the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a 20-minute session, [the DishBrain was] playing much better than then when they started and much better than chance,\u201d Dr Brett Kagan, Cortical\u2019s chief scientific officer, says. While it wasn\u2019t operating at the level of a human or even a motivated mouse, it did demonstrate a consistent learning path and some form of information processing optimisation. \u201cIt was so exciting,\u201d Kagan says gleefully. \u201cWe honestly did not expect to see the extent of the results.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nIt started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators \u2013 and those they influenced \u2013 hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic
\nPong: a game so simple a bundle of lab-grown brain cells could play it. This might sound like a low blow, but it\u2019s true \u2013 last month, Australia-based startup Cortical Labs challenged its creation DishBrain, a biological computer chip that uses a combination of living neurons and silicon, to play the early console classic.
\nThe game \u2013 a 2D version of table tennis where players control a rectangle \u201cpaddle\u201d, moving it up and down to rally a ball \u2013 ran in the background, wired up to the DishBrain. Electrical stimulations were fed into the cells to represent the placement of the paddle and feedback was pinged when the ball was hit or missed. The scientists then measured the DishBrain\u2019s response, observing that it expended more or less energy depending on the position of the ball.\u201cAfter a 20-minute session, [the DishBrain was] playing much better than then when they started and much better than chance,\u201d Dr Brett Kagan, Cortical\u2019s chief scientific officer, says. While it wasn\u2019t operating at the level of a human or even a motivated mouse, it did demonstrate a consistent learning path and some form of information processing optimisation. \u201cIt was so exciting,\u201d Kagan says gleefully. \u201cWe honestly did not expect to see the extent of the results.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators \u2013 and those they influenced \u2013 hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic Pong: a game so simple a bundle of lab-grown brain cells could play it. This might sound like a …<\/p>\n

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