Fly connectome trained to play a Flappy Bird–style game
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-12
A fun research demo circulating on X: researchers used the fruit fly's full brain connectome as a network and trained it to play "Flappy Fly," a Flappy Bird–style game. It's a playful example of turning a real biological wiring diagram into a functioning game-playing controller.
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