Published 1 day ago • loading... • Updated 6 hours ago Show Less Icon Fruit Fly Brain Model Walks, Feeds Inside a Computer Eon Systems replicated a fruit fly brain with 125,000 neurons and 50 million synapses achieving 95% motor behavior accuracy in a physics-based simulation. Left Center Right Ground G Logo Light Bias Comparison Ground G Logo Bias Comparison On Wednesday, Oct. 2, Eon Systems PBC demonstrated the world’s first embodied whole-brain emulation that drove behaviors in a simulated adult Drosophila melanogaster using NeuroMechFly v2 and the MuJoCo physics engine. Built from electron‑microscopy of 7,000 slices, the FlyWire Consortium recently completed a fly wiring diagram, and Philip Shiu in 2024 published a connectome-based brain model with ML neurotransmitter predictions. Validation shows the connectome‑based model predicted motor behavior with 95% accuracy, and the demonstration video emphasizes it is a biological connectome replica, not reinforcement‑learning approaches. Eon Systems plans to scale from fly to mouse and build the largest connectome, advancing neuroscience and AI research communities. Compared with earlier efforts, the demonstration marks a major scale jump from larval fly and nematode models and sparks debate on autonomous neural dynamics versus reinforcement‑learning flies. Insights by Ground AI Wrench Icon Does this summary seem wrong? Share menu 13 Articles 13 Articles All Left 2 Center 1 Right 2 Search Icon Sort Icon We Got This Covered Lean Left Factuality Ownership Scientists just uploaded a fly’s brain into a computer, unleashing yet another manmade horror we’re definitely not ready for Have you ever wanted to live in a Black Mirror episode? No? Well tough luck because that is exactly where society is heading. Okay, maybe that’s a little pessimistic but what scientists have achieved with a humble fruit fly certainly feels like nothing short of a dystopian sci-fi nightmare. Viral claims have been circulating online this week regarding a breakthrough in organic brains being integrated with technology. You may have already heard a…
Ownership Translate Icon Scientists Claim to Have Copied the Brain of a Fly Into a Computer: 'Now Live in a Simulation' The authors of the work, not yet reviewed by independent experts, claim that this is the first time in history that a living being's mind is 'transferred' to a digital ecosystem
Ownership 'Humans are next': Scientists upload a fruit fly's brain into a computer ALBAWABA - Concerns recently flooded social media after Biotechnology Research Eon Systems PBC revealed that it uploaded a fruit fly's brain into a computer by incorporating its 140,000-neuron connectome in a virtual body...
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Ownership Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? By digitally mapping the whole brain of a fruit fly, scientists hope to gain insight into human brain disorders
Ownership Translate Icon Scientists Create a Digital Copy of the Brain of a Fruit Fly A team of scientists developed a digital copy of the brain of a fruit fly that can control a virtual body.
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