{"id":765898,"date":"2026-09-10T07:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:12:11","slug":"digital-fruit-fly-brain-powers-video-game-adventures-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765898\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Fruit Fly Brain Powers Video Game Adventures \/ X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"max-w-full text-subtext2 font-normal text-secondary mt-2\">Last updated Sep 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"max-w-full text-body font-normal text-primary mt-3\">Scientists from Google Research and HHMI Janelia released a full connectome of an adult male fruit fly\u2019s central nervous system in early September, mapping over 166,000 neurons and tens of millions of connections using AI. Enthusiasts quickly loaded this wiring diagram into simulations, letting the fly avatar drive cars, survive in Doom, and slash blocks in rhythm games. Reactions mix awe and jokes about &#8216;torturing&#8217; the fly, though experts clarify it&#8217;s just a static map like a 3D model, not true consciousness\u2014one artist even built a peaceful &#8216;fruit fly heaven&#8217; in response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"max-w-full text-subtext2 font-normal text-secondary mt-3\">This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last updated Sep 10, 2026 Scientists from Google Research and HHMI Janelia released a full connectome of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[390,252871,59,913,90,15873,237867,56,54,55,237866],"class_list":["post-765898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-breaking-news","tag-digital-fruit-fly-brain-powers-video-game-adventures","tag-gb","tag-latest-news","tag-science","tag-trending","tag-twitter-trending","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-x-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}