Fly brain connectome seen as a new way to control virtual characters, beyond LLMs
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-16
Rizwan Stanford argues the fruit fly brain work matters more than it looks: it's a new way to control virtual characters using a biological connectome rather than LLMs, potentially leading to human AI replicas built on our own connectome.
Quoting a Melius demo that "let the fly rest," he frames it as an early step toward downloadable consciousness and Kurzweil's definition of the singularity — a forward-looking take rather than an empirical breakthrough.
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