Continual Learning in Fruit Fly Brain Decoded, Framed as Missing Piece for AGI
skolnaja · reddit · 2026-09-16
A post claims that the continual learning mechanism in the fruit fly brain has been decoded, framing it as a potentially missing piece for true AGI. Details are in the linked image/study; the direction points to biology-inspired approaches for solving catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
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