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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Tory Shepherd

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Australian dishbrain team wins 600 000 grant to merge ai with human brain cells - You Need To See This

Brain neurons
Brains are good at lifelong learning but artificial intelligence suffers from ‘catastrophic forgetting’, whereby it forgets information from previous tasks. Photograph: Christoph Furlong/Alamy

Research into merging human brain cells with artificial intelligence has received a $600,000 grant from defence and the Office of National Intelligence (ONI).

The research team, led by Monash University and Cortical Labs, is the one that created DishBrain – brain cells capable of playing the vintage video game Pong.

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