Google Mapped a Fruit Fly's Brain. Now It's Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

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Google Mapped a Fruit Fly's Brain. Now It's Playing Doom and Super Mario 64

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Google researchers have mapped the 166,000 neurons of a fruit fly brain and are now using it to simulate gameplay in Doom and Mario.

What: Google successfully mapped a complete fruit fly connectome comprising 125 million synaptic connections, which researchers are now leveraging to explore neural-inspired computational behaviors in digital environments.

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Connectome: A comprehensive map of neural connections in an organism's nervous system.

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Google's fly connectome contains over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, providing scientists with a fundamental resource for studying how the brain works.

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