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A simulated fruit fly brain learns to drive. I turned the training into a 24/7 racing league with Elo, seasons and family dynasties [P]

For the past 4 weeks I’ve been training models of the Drosophila brain to control a car in a drag racing simulator. To make the training watchable, I turned it into a racing league and stream it live on Twitch. How it works Each “pilot” is a fly brain model of ~2,400 neurons [based on: FlyWire conn…

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  1. 2026-10-16 22:09 · r/MachineLearning
    A simulated fruit fly brain learns to drive. I turned the training into a 24/7 racing league with Elo, seasons and family dynasties [P]

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