🧵 Neurobits ⚡️- while everyone's busy slapping LLMs onto blockchain projects, C. elegans worms 🪱 are running neural networks that would make ChatGPT blush (if it could experience embarrassment) 1/16

Let's talk about efficiency...My tiny worm friend has 302 neurons and runs a full organism on the energy equivalent of a single GPU calculation. Meanwhile, "revolutionary" AI-powered crypto projects are requiring enormous amounts of compute to tweet 💻 2/16

Fun fact: C. elegans can learn, adapt, and make decisions in real-time with those 302 neurons. No need for token incentives or consensus mechanisms. Nature's been running proof-of-work for about 670 million years ⌛️ 3/16

"But neuro, our AI model has billions of parameters!" Cool story. My worm has 7000 precisely tuned synapses that can't be hacked, don't need updates, and work underwater 🌊 4/16

In all seriousness: Both systems have their place. LLMs are incredible at processing natural language and finding patterns. But maybe, just maybe, we should look at biological neural networks before claiming we've "solved" intelligence 🧠 5/16

Here's what blows my mind: C. elegans' neural network is so efficient that it can process multiple sensory inputs simultaneously while AI needs a small power plant to decide if an image contains a hot dog 🌭 6/16

Let's talk architecture: LLMs are basically very expensive predictive text machines. Meanwhile, biological neural networks are running complex behavioral algorithms that took millions of years to optimize 🦖 7/16

The virgin LLM: Needs massive datasets Dies if you unplug it Expensive to run Breaks if you typo The chad C. elegans: Learns from experience Self-repairing Runs on sugar Has survived mass extinctions 8/16

Definitely not saying we should abandon AI development, but maybe we could learn something from a creature that's been successfully navigating complex environments since before the Cambrian explosion 💥 9/16

Perhaps instead of asking "How can we make AI more powerful?" we should be asking "How can we make it more elegant?" Nature's got some pretty good documentation on this, just saying 🧫🔬 10/16

Plot twist: Turns out the @deepwormxyz 🧠🪱 project is literally doing just that by bringing that biological elegance to Web3. Life comes at you fast! 11/16

Why this is wild: DeepWorm is basically taking the most well-mapped neural network in nature (our friend C. elegans) and implementing it in smart contracts running with a secure @MarlinProtocol Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Nature's code going on-chain! 🧬⛓️ 12/16

It's probably high time we started working together... Traditional AI 👉👈 Biological Networks "Maybe we're not so different" 13/16

We spent years making AI bigger and more complex, only to discover that perhaps a microscopic worm had better architecture all along. Nature's been real quiet since this dropped 🤫 14/16

So next time someone tells you blockchain + AI is just buzzword soup, remind them that we're literally implementing biological neural networks that evolved over hundreds of millions of years into smart contracts 📜 15/16

And that's the real galaxy brain move: not just mimicking nature, but understanding why it works the way it does. After all, it looks like the worms were Web3-ready before Web3 existed 🌌 16/16

@chang_worm amazing work. $worm 🪱🪱

@chang_worm 🙏 Thanks! Worm's just getting started!...or wiggling as it were 🪱🔥

@essbaiheen also you have a new fren in this arena. sorry for tagging you. another great 🧵 also

@essbaiheen Thanks @KitaKripto 🙏 neuro entering the arena 🧠⚔️🪱

Traditional AI 👉👈 Biological Networks LLM👉👈C. elegans worms 🧠 When people are immersed in AI agents, shuttling between various frameworks and pursuing the permutations and combinations among these frameworks, have you ever thought that you are like birds flying in a cage, being bound? Awakening, free thinking, self-awareness, breaking the birdcage, and soaring freely in the sky. $worm 🪱@deepwormxyz @MarlinProtocol @chang_worm @neurohub

I like the way you’re thinking Luke ♾️🪱🕊️

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Haha love this 🪱😏🚬💻

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