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A single bacterium can learn — and it works like an AI neural network

Shiladitya Banerjee, a computational biophysicist at Georgia Tech's School of Physics, ran an experiment with thousands of individual E. coli cells in which the bacteria behaved differently depending on the previous food scenario they had experienced, indicating that a single bacterium can learn in a way that works like an AI neural network. The finding was reported by Boing Boing on September 11, 2026.

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Shiladitya Banerjee, a computational biophysicist at Georgia Tech's School of Physics, ran an experiment with thousands of individual E. coli cells. He varied their food supply and noticed that the bacteria behaved differently depending on the previous food scenario they had experienced. — Read the rest

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