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WIRED writer builds PitchFly, using fly brain to generate story ideas

2 Sep 16 · 11d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 2 of 2

Will Knight creates a project that feeds the fruit fly connectome hundreds of popular WIRED headlines from the past year, then has the fly brain generate new story pitches. Sample outputs include 'The Hidden Weather Problem Inside Surveillance' and 'Everyone Wants Cooking. Nobody Has Solved Donald Trump.'

WIRED writer builds PitchFly, using fly brain to generate story ideas
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“He has 165,112 neurons, and they're all trained to generate story ideas.”

Will Knight

Google and academic institutions Connectome developersWill Knight WIRED writerAlex Wormuth Coinbase software engineerLyra Bubbles X user / developer

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  1. 1 outlet I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas

    first by WIRED, 8d ago

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