A fly has learned to play blackjack — and it's currently up
menhguin · x · 2026-09-13
Researcher @FanPuZeng shared a playful experiment: a (simulated) fly has been trained to play blackjack and is currently ahead in chips. A fun demo of reinforcement learning on a minimal neural system.
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