FLYPITCH uses a fruit fly connectome to generate delightfully insane WIRED story pitches
willknight · x · 2026-09-17
Will Knight built FLYPITCH (pitchfly.fun), a connectome-guided newsroom that feeds WIRED stories through a fruit fly's neural wiring — about 1,400 neurons and thousands of synaptic edges — recombining editorial signals into new story pitches. The results are described as delightfully insane, with the active connectome visualized live.
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