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The brain of a fly is taught to play Beat Saber. Why? 🪰
Scientists have mapped the Drosophila nervous system - more than 166 thousand neurons and about 125 million connections. And enthusiasts have found a use for it: teaching a brain model to play Bitsaber.
The brain of a fly is taught to play Beat Saber. Why? 🪰
Scientists have mapped the Drosophila nervous system - more than 166 thousand neurons and about 125 million connections. And enthusiasts have found a use for it: teaching a brain model to play Bitsaber.
For now, however, she repeats the movements from a specific replay. He is still learning to react to blocks independently.
Imagine the existential horror of finding out you're just a model fly in a simulation playing bitsaber.
In general, there is fundamental science behind this: researchers are figuring out how the nervous system is connected to behavior. But personally, my professional deformation immediately turns on: where can this be applied?
Could living insects ever be “programmed” to fight pests? Pure fantasy for now. Or learn from a fly how to process visual signals and test this principle on a small robot? Already a hypothesis for the pilot.
By the way, if you have invested a lot of effort and money into development, and it is not yet clear who needs the resulting technology and why, write. We’ll help you find application scenarios, formulate hypotheses for pilots, and figure out what to check first. And with tasks outside our profile, we will refer you to specialized Skolkovo experts :)