Someone claims they trained a fruit fly to predict the next token
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-09
User @eriskiiii claims to have "trained a fruit fly to predict the next token," prompting stunned reactions. Whether a joke or a genuinely bizarre bio-experiment applying the LLM paradigm to an insect brain, it's exactly the kind of counterintuitive AI oddity worth sharing.
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