Is There Anything a Fruit Fly Brain Can't Do?
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Researchers at Janelia Research Campus, working with Google, published a complete map of an adult male fruit fly brain. The map covers 166,000 neurons. They report the map can be trained to complete tasks and demonstrate it on examples like parallel parking and playing Doom.
Why it matters
Researchers at the Janelia Research Campus (with Google) published a new map of an adult male fruit fly brain, resulting in a full map of the fly’s 166,000 neurons. They say the map can be trained to complete tasks, and engineers/artists have demonstrated the model doing things like parallel parking and playing Doom.
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