Scientists Stimulated a Fruit Fly’s Brain Inside an AI System and Succeeded; Are Human Brains Next?

A team of researchers did just that, starting small. The idea was to take a brain, map it neuron by neuron, and run that map inside a machine. They recreated a fruit fly brain, plugged it into a digital body, and watched as the virtual insect behaved like the real thing. There weren’t any separate lines of code for every behaviour, the digital fly’s actions came straight from simulated neural activity. It navigated its environment, reacted to what it saw, and acted in a way that looked similar to a real fly. At its core, this experiment marks a major […]