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Google's fruit fly brain map enables impressive user-created simulations

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Internet users have utilized a detailed map of a fruit fly's 166,000 neurons, originally published by Google, to create impressive simulations. These simulations showcase the capabilities of these tiny insects, whose brains are comparable in size to a poppy seed. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how publicly released scientific data can be leveraged for creative AI-driven simulations.

RANK_REASON User-created simulations based on a published dataset.

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Google's fruit fly brain map enables impressive user-created simulations

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    "Creative internet users have in recent days taken a complete map of a fruit fly’s 166,000 neurons, published by Google, and made simulated flies do some things

    "Creative internet users have in recent days taken a complete map of a fruit fly’s 166,000 neurons, published by Google, and made simulated flies do some things that are pretty impressive, given that these insects have a brain the size of a poppy seed." # ai # insect # fly https:…

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