Neural network built from fruit fly connectome shows surprising skill at recognizing human emotions
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-09
Researchers built a neural network from the male drosophila connectome and trained it on human emotions. The author reports its identification accuracy was shockingly good — "better than some humans I know" — highlighting the potential of transferring biological connectome structure into AI models.
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