Sadly, I don't have half a jigsaw puzzle and some person I have a crush on has the other half. That part is only fiction. But the part where Australian scientists made braincells on a chip play Pong isn't. You can read their paper here. And no, I totally didn't waste almost an entire day following that rabbit hole. ahem.

Panel 1:
Parrot is talking
P: Have you heard that Australian scientists managed to grow brain cells on a specialized computer chip and made them learn to play Pong?
Panel 2:
P: What’s fascinating to me is that these cyborg neurons learned to hit the ball, neither because they were punished for missing nor were they rewarded for hitting it. They did it because they could predict what would happen if they hit it while the other case was unpredictable.
Panel 3:
P: Essentially, they were scared of the unknown! They just wanted to stay in control. On the other hand ...
Panel 4:
Suddenly, the beautiful parrot interrupts them.
BP: Yeah, sure, and next thing you’ll contrast that with the concept of curiosity and its success as a reward function in reinforcement learning.
Panel 5:
BP: Then you’ll state some sort of “theory” that both is somehow necessary for intelligence and “subtly” suggest that it’s only my biology that prevents me from dating you, while doing so would actually be the “smart” choice.
Parrot is in shock.
Panel 6:
BP: Yeah.
Parrot is still in shock
BP: Thought so.
BP Parrots are so predictable.
Panel 7:
BP: Look, maybe I’ll regret doing this, but this bar is kinda empty. Why don’t we have a normal conversation for once. Let’s see ... what did you get for Smartmas™?
Panel 8:
P: nervously sweating I ... I got ... a ... uhhh ... a jig ... ahh ... a jigsaw puzzle. But ... half the ... half the pieces were ... missing.
Panel 9:
BP: realizing something Wait ... what kind of jigsaw puzzle exactly?