NYT catalogs offbeat uses of the fruit-fly brain model
1 Sep 15 6:00 PM · 10d ago · 2 articles · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 3
The New York Times reported that people have trained simulated versions of the fly's nervous system to solve a Rubik's Cube, play video games, and even parallel park a car, days after Google's release.
“Is There Anything a Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do? Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car.”
aregenberg@mastodon.online, Mastodon user sharing NYT article · mastodon ↗Google Developer of the fruit-fly connectome mapActualAerie1011 Reddit user who trained the model
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Is There Anything a Fruit Fly Brain Can’t Do? Models of the insect’s nervous system have been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube, play video games and even parallel park a car. https://www. nytimes.com/2026/09/15/technol ogy/fruit-fly-brain-map-google.html?smid=bs-share
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