Researchers Push Back on Fruit Fly Brain Claims: It's Just a 150K-Unit Fixed Network

Researchers are pushing back on viral fruit fly brain simulation claims, noting the behaviors came from a trained MLP policy rather than the fly's connectome; one suggested swapping 'fruit fly' for 'a fixed 150,000-unit network' to test whether the results remain impressive.

2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-12 · 3 related posts

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