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A 166,000-neuron fruit fly brain map was released by Google and developers immediately put it in Minecraft, taught it Beat Saber and gave it $100 to trade Bitcoin by feeding game frames into its visual neurons and turning brain activity into movements.

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Cedar Baxley9 days ago

Oh ....why can't they just map out the human brain and open source it. God I can't wait for that 😊

Dawny9 days ago

cool, a fly brain in minecraft. let me know when it outperforms my CoinStats portfolio.

Defi_Noal9 days ago

Beat Saber was the safe test. Bitcoin was not

泰坦链 | DeFi9 days ago

the fly has better risk management

Dennis9 days ago

the crazy part isn’t putting a fly in minecraft. it’s proving that raw neural activity can be decoded into behavior in real time. scale the decoding, and the applications get very serious

Lou9 days ago

fruit fly has better risk mgmt

WalletX.gg - Profitable Wallets Scraper9 days ago

give it a few weeks and someone's screenshotting its ROI like it's a top wallet, gifted tokens and all

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862,037 views • 6 months ago

166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now pilot a robot that drives and flies. It's the wildest piece of engineering on the internet right now, and the pilot has been dead the whole time. The robot rolls across a bedroom floor like a toy until the wheels stop being wheels: 4 propellers inside the rims spin up, and it lifts off, hangs at desk height, turns and lands. The body came out of a cardboard box of drone parts, and the brain it copies is smaller than a poppy seed and was never designed by a human. Janelia and Google spent years turning 1 male fruit fly into a spreadsheet, with every neuron and up to 125M synapses labeled, and on September 3 they posted it free for anyone to download. To build it, the fly was cut into thousands of layers and traced cell by cell under an electron microscope. Camera frames get turned into what a fly's eyes would see. The spikes run through the real wiring, where each neuron is 1 equation that rests at -52 mV and fires at -45. When something rushes at the lens, LPLC2 and LC4 light up, the same cells a fly uses to dodge your swatter, while DNg02 at the far end sets climb and turn. Inside the brain there's no flight code, no PID loop and no line that says "avoid the bed." Tesla's self-driving learned from billions of miles of driving, and this pilot learned from 400 million years of flies that didn't get swatted. A real fly walks on 6 legs and flies on 2 wings, and this one got 4 wheels and 4 propellers. The fly is dead, the brain is a file, and the file just took off.

166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now pilot a robot that drives and flies. It's the wildest piece of engineering on the internet right now, and the pilot has been dead the whole time. The robot rolls across a bedroom floor like a toy until the wheels stop being wheels: 4 propellers inside the rims spin up, and it lifts off, hangs at desk height, turns and lands. The body came out of a cardboard box of drone parts, and the brain it copies is smaller than a poppy seed and was never designed by a human. Janelia and Google spent years turning 1 male fruit fly into a spreadsheet, with every neuron and up to 125M synapses labeled, and on September 3 they posted it free for anyone to download. To build it, the fly was cut into thousands of layers and traced cell by cell under an electron microscope. Camera frames get turned into what a fly's eyes would see. The spikes run through the real wiring, where each neuron is 1 equation that rests at -52 mV and fires at -45. When something rushes at the lens, LPLC2 and LC4 light up, the same cells a fly uses to dodge your swatter, while DNg02 at the far end sets climb and turn. Inside the brain there's no flight code, no PID loop and no line that says "avoid the bed." Tesla's self-driving learned from billions of miles of driving, and this pilot learned from 400 million years of flies that didn't get swatted. A real fly walks on 6 legs and flies on 2 wings, and this one got 4 wheels and 4 propellers. The fly is dead, the brain is a file, and the file just took off.

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53,705 views • 3 days ago

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