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A DEAD MAN'S BRAIN LEARNED TO PLAY PIANO

Five-panel Zimbo cartoon: a doctor implants a dish-grown brain into a robot at a piano; a stern conductor snaps "Again." as a brain in a bowl drives the keys; an organ cooler stores a heart, kidneys, and a spare brain; and an orderly wheels a tagged, sheet-covered body past, a cat trailing.
Machine Age Cartoon · Zimbo

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Research Square: Researchers kept post-mortem adult human cortical tissue alive in a dish, wired it to a robotic hand with a microphone, and it learned — with no backpropagation or supervision — to imitate piano notes…