I tried to make a real fly connectome learn to play Pong. It didn't — and auditing why turned out to be way more interesting than if it had worked [p]
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You've probably seen the fly-brain-plays-Doom / Minecraft / Beat Saber clips going around this week, from the new MaleCNS v1.0 connectome release (166k neurons, real EM reconstruction, not a toy model). Cool clips. Nobody seemed to be checking whether any of it works though, versus just producing m…
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I tried to make a real fly connectome learn to play Pong. It didn't — and auditing why turned out to be way more interesting than if it had worked [p]
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