{"id":854149,"date":"2026-09-20T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854149\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T08:34:24","slug":"fruit-fly-beats-claude-opus-5-at-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854149\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit fly beats Claude Opus 5 at chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI may not be so superintelligent after all.<\/p>\n<p>The lowly fruit fly just beat one of the world\u2019s most advanced AI models at chess. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just one of dozens of wild experiments that have gone viral since scientists fully mapped the neural pathways of an adult male fruit fly \u2014 whose entire brain fits on the head of a pin \u2014 and posted the data online.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The fly figured out ways to solve and compress chess that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>I had to stop training it because it was destroying Opus 5.<\/p>\n<p>Demo and model available on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/huggingface?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@huggingface<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/twV5GlsGDC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/twV5GlsGDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxime Labonne (@maximelabonne) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/maximelabonne\/status\/2100498776893108470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threshold-crossing technology, achieved by HHMI Janelia Research in Virginia and Google Research, catalogued all 166,000 individual neurons and 25.6 million connections in the fly\u2019s brain and made it downloadable on Sept 3. <\/p>\n<p>Inventive nerds then used the digitized neural network to power and navigate a wide variety of contraptions, apps and games.<\/p>\n<p>Creator Maxime Labonne hooked the mapped pathways up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/spaces\/mlabonne\/chessfly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chess engine<\/a> and pitted it against Claude Opus 5, which is one of the most advanced AI models on the market. <\/p>\n<p>The fly delivered a checkmate in just 11 moves.<\/p>\n<p>One engineer created a project called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nftechie\/stonkfly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stonkfly<\/a> \u2014 giving the entity a $100 portfolio and creating a way for it to trade crypto currency. <\/p>\n<p>The program simulated dopamine rushes for the fly when it made money on a trade for positive reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40880725\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/complete-map-male-fruit-flys-141484804.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of a fruit fly simulation, where a 3D fruit fly sits on a green table like a blackjack table, with a visualization of neural activity above it.\" class=\"wp-image-40880725\"\/>The complete map of the adult male fruit fly\u2019s neural connections is shown, after being achieved in September. FlyJack<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66308594;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40880727\" width=\"391\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/complete-map-male-fruit-flys-141484722.jpg\" alt=\"A robot moving on the floor with a live fruit fly brain simulation on a screen above it.\" class=\"wp-image-40880727\"\/>A map shows the complete neural connections of an adult male fruit fly, achieved in September. kiruwaaaa\/X<\/p>\n<p>A Stanford student <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/poetengineer__\/status\/2099326466714476750?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">created a fighting game<\/a> where she controlled one digital fly and the neural network controlled another digital fruit fly \u2014 and battled it in a king-of-the-hill style competition. <\/p>\n<p>She lost all 12 bouts.<\/p>\n<p>The fly has also hit the casino in a program called FlyJack. One engineer created a blackjack game for the fly-brain bets against a dealer. <\/p>\n<p>But the fly\u2019s success varies \u2014 like all gamblers \u2014 each time you run the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Other users plugged the neural network into a variety of homemade robots, such as animatronic cats, crab-like walkers, and small drones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI may not be so superintelligent after all. 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