The link shows an AI representation of the mapping of those neurons and circuits.
Excerpt from NY Times article dated 02 October 2024:
>A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs tremendous complexity into that tiny space. Over 140,000 neurons are joined together by more than 490 feet of wiring, as long as four blue whales placed end to end.
>Hundreds of scientists mapped out those connections in stunning detail in a series of papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. The wiring diagram will be a boon to researchers who have studied the nervous system of the fly species, Drosophila melanogaster, for generations.
>Previously, a tiny worm was the only adult animal to have had its brain entirely reconstructed, with just 385 neurons in its entire nervous system. The new fly map is “the first time we’ve had a complete map of any complex brain,” said Mala Murthy, a neurobiologist at Princeton who helped lead the effort.
>Other researchers said that analyzing the circuitry in the fly brain would reveal principles that apply to other species, including humans, whose brains have 86 billion neurons.
HugoZHackenbush2 on
Time flies like an arrow..
Fruit flies like a banana..
MyKinkyCountess on
Soo… can we make an artificial fruit fly now?
malpalredhead on
For comparison, humans have 86 billion neurons.
ClydePossumfoot on
This is amazing. They did it by solidifying the brain into a block and shaving it off layer by layer, taking pictures along the way, then reconstructing it from the analyzed images.
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The link shows an AI representation of the mapping of those neurons and circuits.
Excerpt from NY Times article dated 02 October 2024:
>A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs tremendous complexity into that tiny space. Over 140,000 neurons are joined together by more than 490 feet of wiring, as long as four blue whales placed end to end.
>Hundreds of scientists mapped out those connections in stunning detail in a series of papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. The wiring diagram will be a boon to researchers who have studied the nervous system of the fly species, Drosophila melanogaster, for generations.
>Previously, a tiny worm was the only adult animal to have had its brain entirely reconstructed, with just 385 neurons in its entire nervous system. The new fly map is “the first time we’ve had a complete map of any complex brain,” said Mala Murthy, a neurobiologist at Princeton who helped lead the effort.
>Other researchers said that analyzing the circuitry in the fly brain would reveal principles that apply to other species, including humans, whose brains have 86 billion neurons.
Time flies like an arrow..
Fruit flies like a banana..
Soo… can we make an artificial fruit fly now?
For comparison, humans have 86 billion neurons.
This is amazing. They did it by solidifying the brain into a block and shaving it off layer by layer, taking pictures along the way, then reconstructing it from the analyzed images.
GGUF when?