Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.
This looks cool ans they apparently did obtain results (I haven’t read the actual research paper though), the way it is presented in this article is dubious. They are just slapping together buzzwords like “artificial intelligence”