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PitchFly taps a detailed map of the brain of a male drosophila—the common fruit fly
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Developed by researchers from Google and several academic institutions, the map, known as a connectome, captures the way that 166,000 neurons and 125 million connecting synapses fire in response to stimuli.
Key facts
- Developed by researchers from Google and several academic institutions, the map, known as a connectome, captures the way that 166,000 neurons and 125 million connecting synapses fire in response
- An X user called Lyra Bubbles, for instance, demo’d a project that involved training the virtual fly brain to play the VR game Beat Saber — He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas
- A sampling of his early output: “The Hidden Weather Problem Inside Surveillance”; “The Engineers Who Think Elon Musk Needs Less Computer Security”; and their personal favorite, “Everyone Wants Cooking
Summary
Meet PitchFly, WIRED’s latest editorial recruit. He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas. PitchFly uses a detailed map of the brain of a male drosophila—the common fruit fly. Because the researchers open-sourced it, you can easily use AI to import the connectome into a project with a little prompting. In other words, this isn’t a fly-based language model—although someone apparently created one of those.