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Google and collaborators map 166,000-neuron fruit fly connectome, engineers train it to play Doom and Mario 64
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A complete 3D neural map of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system was released and immediately used to control classic video games.
The connectome provides a testbed for neuroscience models at scale. Engineers can now experiment with biologically plausible control systems without waiting for human-brain resolution. The same open dataset may also accelerate research into neural-network architectures that mimic biological learning.
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The 166,700-neuron connectome is the first complete map of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system.
Within days of release, open-source projects mapped sensory input to game controls and dopamine signals to reinforcement learning.
The dataset and code are publicly available, allowing any engineer to run the same experiments on commodity hardware.
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