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I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas
He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas.
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A male fruit fly’s brain, containing 165,112 neurons, has been mapped and trained to generate story ideas for WIRED. The system, called PitchFly, produces titles such as “The Hidden Weather Problem Inside Surveillance,” “The Engineers Who Think Elon Musk Needs Less Computer Security,” and “Everyone Wants Cooking. Nobody Has Solved Donald Trump.” The output demonstrates the fly’s neural network being repurposed for creative brainstorming.
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