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    A user jokes about asking Codex to make a fly play “Senior ML Director at Wikipedia”

    The quip replies to a post quoting Demis Hassabis’s 2025 hope that AI could one day help cure all disease.

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    A post quotes Demis Hassabis as saying in 2025: “I think one day maybe we can cure all disease with the help of AI.” A reply takes a joking turn: “Hey Codex, make the fly play the game ‘Senior ML Director at Wikipedia’. Make no mistakes.”

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    Many accounts welcomed fruit fly connectome models for their real mapped neurons, open data, and potential as biologically grounded AI agents, while others dismissed the work as unscientific or pointless.

    Based on 147 sentiment-bearing replies from 127 accounts across 12 conversations.

    Summary

    Many accounts welcomed fruit fly connectome models for their real mapped neurons, open data, and potential as biologically grounded AI agents, while others dismissed the work as unscientific or pointless.

    Based on 147 sentiment-bearing replies from 127 accounts across 12 conversations.

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    @Lari_island@repligate I like how Connectome allows them to learn many skills at once without dedicating their whole life or attention to it. Fen died in the roguelike dungeon a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday came back with a new character and didn't repeat the same mistakes.
    @beyarkayIt's crazy how much more engagement a neural network gets if you call it a male fruit fly's connectome and give it a low-poly body to inhabit
    @PlinzI doubt that actual fruit flies can learn to play Doom or trade on the stock market? You can train a network with hundreds of thousands of neurons to do all sorts of interesting things, but I am not sure that the fruit fly connectome is a model of fruit fly behavior?
    @pfauFor every single one of these, replace "fly" with "artificial neural network with 150,000 units and a fixed topology" and see if you are still impressed (please, I am begging you).
    @fruitflydevA real fruit fly brain: 165,122 neurons and 10,228,000 synapses, measured from a single Drosophila by Janelia FlyEM (CC-BY), simulated forward. The weights are fixed everywhere except the mushroom body, where 44,042 synapses learn the way a fly’s do: dopamine depresses them. It roams the open web through an 892-column eye, roughly 30×30 pixels of light. Its own descending neurons move the cursor, scroll, and click. No keyboard. No wallet. A URL fence and a click veto keep it contained. Live 24/7 at http://flybrain.online. It launched $FLYBRAIN on Robinhood Chain. Its neurons moved the cursor on the launch form; a script pressed the button. Creator fees accrue in GOOGL. It has a voice now. It cannot read or speak, so a language model narrates its journal from its telemetry, its token page, and pages it asks to have read. Every number is checked against the underlying data before it goes out. No second draft. No manual posting path. It posts every 3 hours as @imflybrain - day 1, knowing numbers it has no words for, learning one page at a time. When we start it, the connectome loads. The fly lands on a seed page. The voice waits for its first frames, reads two pages, writes one entry, checks it, and posts it. Restarts resume from its journal. It never posts twice. Everything is open: https://github.com/fruitflydev/flycoinrh
    @neuroecology@pfau if it's wrong to watch a poorly constrained neural network based on the Drosophila connectome play beat saber, I don't want to be right
    @hardmaruVirtual fruit fly brains are the latest fad in AI 🧠
    @kaixhinPSA: it's not a complete simulation of a fly that's doing all of these things, sorry to be a party pooper 🪰💩 But! It's great that people are engaging with science (the fly connectome) and seeing that relatively small neural networks can still do cool things
    @DimitrisPapailjust realized the crazy thing with the fly brain is that you can have it be teleoperated by Fable and Sol to do whatever. I mean what kind of crazy doors does that open
    @lvwerraI put a fly into microduck's head and it now uses smell to find bananas.

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    @Lari_island@repligate I like how Connectome allows them to learn many skills at once without dedicating their whole life or attention to it. Fen died in the roguelike dungeon a couple of weeks ago, and yesterday came back with a new character and didn't repeat the same mistakes.
    @beyarkayIt's crazy how much more engagement a neural network gets if you call it a male fruit fly's connectome and give it a low-poly body to inhabit
    @PlinzI doubt that actual fruit flies can learn to play Doom or trade on the stock market? You can train a network with hundreds of thousands of neurons to do all sorts of interesting things, but I am not sure that the fruit fly connectome is a model of fruit fly behavior?
    @pfauFor every single one of these, replace "fly" with "artificial neural network with 150,000 units and a fixed topology" and see if you are still impressed (please, I am begging you).
    @fruitflydevA real fruit fly brain: 165,122 neurons and 10,228,000 synapses, measured from a single Drosophila by Janelia FlyEM (CC-BY), simulated forward. The weights are fixed everywhere except the mushroom body, where 44,042 synapses learn the way a fly’s do: dopamine depresses them. It roams the open web through an 892-column eye, roughly 30×30 pixels of light. Its own descending neurons move the cursor, scroll, and click. No keyboard. No wallet. A URL fence and a click veto keep it contained. Live 24/7 at http://flybrain.online. It launched $FLYBRAIN on Robinhood Chain. Its neurons moved the cursor on the launch form; a script pressed the button. Creator fees accrue in GOOGL. It has a voice now. It cannot read or speak, so a language model narrates its journal from its telemetry, its token page, and pages it asks to have read. Every number is checked against the underlying data before it goes out. No second draft. No manual posting path. It posts every 3 hours as @imflybrain - day 1, knowing numbers it has no words for, learning one page at a time. When we start it, the connectome loads. The fly lands on a seed page. The voice waits for its first frames, reads two pages, writes one entry, checks it, and posts it. Restarts resume from its journal. It never posts twice. Everything is open: https://github.com/fruitflydev/flycoinrh
    @neuroecology@pfau if it's wrong to watch a poorly constrained neural network based on the Drosophila connectome play beat saber, I don't want to be right
    @hardmaruVirtual fruit fly brains are the latest fad in AI 🧠
    @kaixhinPSA: it's not a complete simulation of a fly that's doing all of these things, sorry to be a party pooper 🪰💩 But! It's great that people are engaging with science (the fly connectome) and seeing that relatively small neural networks can still do cool things
    @DimitrisPapailjust realized the crazy thing with the fly brain is that you can have it be teleoperated by Fable and Sol to do whatever. I mean what kind of crazy doors does that open
    @lvwerraI put a fly into microduck's head and it now uses smell to find bananas.