The fruit fly's brain could replace the blueprint every neuromorphic chip has been missing. Scientists spent 20 years mapping the entire nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly, down to every single connection. The result: 166,700 nerve cells wired together through 124.2 million synapses, fully mapped, fully published.... This isn't just a museum piece. Researchers are already running this exact connectome on neuromorphic computing chips like Intel's Loihi 2, and using it to build working computational models of how a real brain decides to eat or groom itself.show more

if it's so good why don't we hear big tech companies talking about it? only crazy fools doing Plato's cave...

because this appeared quite recently

can't wait for a fly brain to solve millennium prize problem

They’re moving towards zebrafish next.

Half the blueprint is wiring. The other half is the neuron model: multi-level spiking neurons cut energy 2 to 3 times versus binary ones, and on neuromorphic data they cut inference to 1 timestep, a compression factor of 10 over prior results. arXiv 2510.24637

Is every fly brain identical?

Someone just bake into a chip already

GPT 7 is probably analyzing this and making GPT 11, skipping 8 through 10 entirely 💀

Zebra 🦓 fish is amazing

...and now you can play Tetris against a fly brain.

What math do they run on the neurons and how do they do timing on a chip? How to translate from physical fly circuit to clock-driven logic? What are the inputs and outputs?—seems like a question easy to answer for a artificial NN but not for fruit fly; they control muscles I guess @grok explain plz in detail