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Simulated fruit-fly brain plays video games and strategy simulations

Open Fly project launches: fruit-fly brain plays grand strategy game

2 Sep 15 · 8d ago · 1 post · 1 source · development 2 of 3

A browser-based project deploys the simulated fruit-fly brain to play Open Doctrines, a historical grand strategy game. Each game turn, the country's state is encoded as sensory input, the brain's 138,639 neurons fire for 200 milliseconds, and its 1,299 descending neurons mapped to 39 game actions determine the nation's decisions. The brain performs worse than a do-nothing baseline.

Open Fly project launches: fruit-fly brain plays grand strategy game
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“Nothing here is pre-recorded, and nothing was trained. The brain runs on your machine, and every order you see comes from its spikes.”

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