"It was my idea."
Posted on 03/16/2026 4:34:50 PM PDT by Callahan
Artificial intelligence seeks to emulate the faculties of the human mind through computational systems, a synthetic recreation of our brains’ capabilities to perceive, learn, and reason.
Now, a company claims to have taken a totally different tack by simulating the 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections of an adult fruit fly’s brain — and then letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.
In a video shared by Eon Systems cofounder Alex Weissner-Gross, the crudely animated insect can be seen stretching its legs inside a simulated sandbox, rubbing its front feet together and using its labellum to drink from a small bowl.
“For decades, whole-brain emulation has been the tantalizing counterpart to artificial intelligence,” Weissner-Gross wrote in a Substack post. “Copy a biological brain, neuron by neuron and synapse by synapse, and run it.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
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"It was my idea."
This is the way about three dozen horror movies start.
stupid question, is the fly in the video virtual?
ven stupider than I thought, since it’s in the headline.
Had they uploaded a liberal’s brain (”Abby...Abby Something”), the transfer would not have been as successful as the fly’s
There is a great scene in the movie Transcendence where they explain the “success” of uploading a primate’s brain to a hard drive. When they accessed, turned on the uploaded primate, all it “did” was SCREAM.
Pretty much what every democRAT does each morning.
Fun episode.
Good old Jan in the Pan.
Did it say that it wanted to be the world’s first, “Insect Politician?”
There’s hope for liberals?
I have one of those battery powered electrified swatters. It’s fun to watch them sizzle.
Immediately becomes the front runner for the ‘28 Democrat presidential nomination.
Do half of the fly neurons belong to Jeff Goldblum?
A brain recreated on a chip ain’t a brain. It is simply programming.
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