Fly Brain Connectome Used To Trade Stocks And Play Games
The 160,000-neuron map has been used to drive Minecraft, DOOM and Beat Saber experiments, and to build a crypto stock trading agent.
- Recently, researchers mapped the central nervous system connectome of both male and female Drosophila melanogaster brains, enabling comparative analysis of the insects' nervous systems.
- An international research consortium released the first-ever complete wiring of an entire fruit fly brain in 2024, establishing the foundational connectome data for digital models.
- Enthusiasts are applying this connectome to diverse tasks: playing games like Doom and Beat Saber, trading cryptocurrency via the Stonkfly project, and generating content for VICE.
- YouTuber Ro0ney integrated the digital brain into a Minecraft 'Consciousness' mod, inducing fear responses using visual stimuli to observe how the simulation interacts with a digital environment.
- Dr. Gregory Jefferis of the University of Cambridge cautions that digital simulations remain simplifications, receiving limited inputs compared to the complex feedback a living brain experiences.
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We Hijacked a Fruit Fly’s Brain and Made It Write VICE Headlines
Towards the end of last week, users on X started playing around with a simulation of a fruit fly brain that had been mapped out by AI. The vibe coders have been giving the online reproduction of the fruit fly’s neural network a range of tasks to perform, including trading crypto (it was rewarded with a […]
Scientists mapped every neural connection in a fruit fly and found a surprise
A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings suggest that complex behaviors emerge from distributed local circuits rather than a single central controller, offering new clues about intelligence, movement, and brain function.
On September 3, researchers from Google Research, the American HHMI Janelia Research Campus, the University of Cambridge, and the British MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology published the complete wiring map of the central nervous system of a male fruit fly. The internet immediately got to work on it, and not to conduct scientific research. Software developer […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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