Google AI@GoogleAI · Sep 10, 2026Oh, so this is why we mapped out all 166,000 of the male fruit fly's neurons. Check out the big community effort to…
Summary
Researchers mapped all 166,000 neurons in a male fruit fly's brain and demonstrated its surprising capabilities by simulating the fly's neural network playing various games and activities including Minecraft, Doom, Beat Saber, and even cryptocurrency trading. This community effort showcases how much computational power and complexity can be packed into a tiny insect brain.
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First, the fruit fly found itself trapped inside a Minecraft box.
evnsnclr@evnsnclr · Sep 4, 2026I’ve successfully run the full retained MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome, all 166,700 neurons, inside Minecraft, with its simulated neural activity driving a fly’s movement. V1 Currently in development. Built with the help of GPT-6 Astra. Props to the @OpenAI team and @thsottiaux for this release. Code and mod coming soon!
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Then, it decided to run Doom.
Andrei Apanasik 🔜 TGS@a_apanasik · Sep 7, 2026But can it run DOOM?! Well...actually, yes.
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After that, kept the good times going with Beat Saber.
lyra bubbles@_lyraaaa_ · Sep 9, 2026the fly brain can play beat saber
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Played Doom again. Just for fun.
Alex Wormuth@nftechie_ · Sep 9, 2026the fly brain can play doom
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Was a little overwhelmed, decided to take a break in fruit fly heaven.
Macroblock@sainimatic · Sep 9, 2026Everyone is doing terrible things to this poor fruit fly, trapping it in black mirror nightmare environments, inflicting max pain, forcing it to play the same beat saber song indefinitely etc, so I'm building a sim where it just gets to fly around forever in fruit fly heaven
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Bored of the afterlife, came out of retirement to pursue its true passion: cryptocurrency.
Alex Wormuth@nftechie_ · Sep 10, 2026I gave the fly brain $100 to trade bitcoin. Dopamine neurons are stimulated when the fly makes profit. Neuron activity controls buy/sell decisions and makes trades on coinbase. Will the fly get rich?
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