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AI Research ·
A fruit fly’s neural wiring diagram sparked a wave of game-playing demos and big claims about digital brains. The real breakthrough is less sci-fi—and more useful to neuroscience—than the memes suggest.
AI Research ·
The internet is obsessed with a fruit fly's brain that can play Doom and trade crypto. But the multi-million dollar science project behind the meme hides a critical detail everyone is missing.
AI Research ·
Developers are teaching a simulated fruit fly brain to play video games and trade crypto. But this wild experiment exposes a terrifying roadmap that ends with the ethical nightmare of human brain emulation.
AI Research ·
Scientists have uploaded a fruit fly's brain into a computer, and it's already doing the impossible. But this breakthrough raises a terrifying question about the future of consciousness itself.
