After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
Software engineers have successfully trained a 3D model of a male fruit fly's brain, mapped by Google, to play video games including Doom, Super Mario 64, and Beat Saber. While the Doom playthrough is described as not very good, the Beat Saber performance is noted as surprisingly competent, with ongoing efforts to improve its reactive capabilities.
- Entities
- Game: Minecraft
- Topic: Neuroscience
- Topic: Reinforcement Learning
- Game: DOOM
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence
- Person: Ro0oney
- Company: Princeton University
- Person: Alex Wormuth
- Company: Coinbase
- Game: Beat Saber
- Topic: Brain Mapping
- Person: Jessica Paquette
- Game: Super Mario 64
- Company: Google
- Person: Lyra Bubbles
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