Brain in a Dish Flies Plane

When I was doing my edumacation thing at uni I did a thesis on neural networks and their application to the prediction of protein structure blah blah tedious. Neural networks in those days were computer models of how they thought the brain worked and how you could forge pathways through this mathematical alogorhythm thus ‘teaching’ the software how to do something (I believe car registration plate character recognition works using this principle). At that time, never (in my wildest dreams) did I expect to see neural networks being actually created out of real neurons and applied to real life situations… Let alone being able to create a brain in a dish that can fly a plane!