Visual processing requires an astounding amount of brain power. Over 50% of a fruit flies brain cells are dedicated to their rudimentary visual system.
Comparatively, the human visual processing system is truly astonishing and I am grateful for it.
Can I pair this with adversarial deep learning to develop a way to trap these in my kitchen? I live in the Midwest and they are like a plague of locusts but tiny and annoying and strangely aware of countermeasures.
Or maybe I can apply fruit fly Roko’s Basilisk and threaten to simulate fruit fly brains in agony if the flies don’t leave me alone on the theory that since I am able to simulate a fruit fly brain I am fly basilisk?
Didn't quite catch, is this just the first mapping, or are they able to 'execute it'. Like the worm project a few years ago. Where they mapped worm "C. elegans" brain, and was able to put in a simulated environment and watch reactions, and eventually into a robot body.
This seems like next step up in complexity, so wondering how far they are along having the 'brain map' execute.
Awesome! Are there any simple downloads that have just annotations and connectivity? Like a sparse adjacency matrix with annotations of the node and edge features (neuron type, etc). I didn't see any immediately. A condensed representation of the 3d model should be pretty great for researchers as well.
I think logical and incremental next step is the whole brain connectome of business analysts at bank of america technology division.
Would instantiating this network and feeding it random inputs be akin to animal cruelty?
Would you run tests on a cat connectome? A human’s? Yours?
Ooh, i think i remember this one: It had the cosmic coincidence of one of its researchers being called Timothy MOSCA.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-first-comp...
good to see it got some more attention.
Codex provides access to proofread static snapshots of the FlyWire full-brain connectome - wiring diagram of Drosophila brain.
This is very interesting. Any wild guesses how far (in years) away from building a synthetic fruit fly? 10 years?
By synthetic I mean a fly that doesn't die and that can be reproduced again.
Is this an actual whole-brain connectome or is it that same work based on a larval brain with several orders of magnitude less complexity than an adult fly brain?
There's lots of very exciting work going on around the fully mapped fruit fly connectome. For example, I'm a CTO of a stealth startup that aims to do for utilitarianism what carbon credits did for environmentalism. We are selling 'utility credits' which translates directly into us simulating trillions and trillions of fruit fly brains in a state of constant orgasmic bliss, which you can then buy to offset any actions your company has undertaken that damage global happiness or well-being. We've seen a lot of interest from some pretty large industry players.
Related:
* Fruit Fly Brain Observatory https://www.fruitflybrain.org/#/posts/explore_ffbo which lets you visualize and explore datasets
* Neurokernel http://neurokernel.github.io/ - open source software which "aims to build an open software platform for the emulation of the entire brain of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)." See also: http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/projects/neurokernel
The recent work being published on this is pretty wild:
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614541/ (summaries: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/wiring-map-reveals-how-lar... and https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/complet...)
Oh, and just in case people haven't read this, I'll just drop this short story from a few years ago Lena (MMacevedo): https://qntm.org/mmacevedo - like with AI, I think science fact will be rapidly catching up w/ fiction soon.