Grad student plugs fruit fly connectome into Minecraft in two days using GPT-6
FuSheng_0306 · x · 2026-09-08
After Google, Cambridge and collaborators spent over a decade mapping the fruit fly's full central nervous system connectome, a grad student used GPT-6 to wire it into Minecraft in just two days — letting the in-game fly be driven by its real neural system. A striking example of 'cyber-immortality' for insects and how AI compresses years of grunt research work.
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