Digital fruit fly brain models trained to play video games

The short version

• Software engineers trained a digital model of an adult fruit fly brain to navigate the original video game Doom.[Slashdot]
• The effort follows Google's 3D digital reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system.[Slashdot]
• Developers also repurposed digital fruit fly models to test controls in games such as Beat Saber and Super Mario 64.[Slashdot]

Key facts

• Google created a detailed 3D reconstruction of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system.[Slashdot]
• Software engineer Alex Wormuth used the digital fly brain to run the game Doom by mapping sensory inputs and neural activity to controls.[Slashdot]
• The digital brain model was subsequently repurposed to control games such as Beat Saber and Super Mario 64.[Slashdot]
• Google analyzed a male brain with over 160,000 neurons, while the Flywire project mapped a female brain containing 139,255 neurons.[Slashdot]

Sources

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