studiot Posted Wednesday at 04:09 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:09 PM (edited) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lw0nxw71po Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of its 130,000 cells and 50 million connections. Edited Wednesday at 04:11 PM by studiot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimreepr Posted yesterday at 10:55 AM Share Posted yesterday at 10:55 AM What struck me as I read this, imagine how much more powerful AI could become if we copy n paste that wiring diagram into a supercomputer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc Turpin Posted yesterday at 11:52 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:52 AM (edited) We still do not know how 130,000 cells and 50 million connections enable a fly to interact with each other and the world around it. Also, brains do not function like computers. Edited yesterday at 12:07 PM by Luc Turpin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exchemist Posted yesterday at 01:32 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:32 PM 1 hour ago, Luc Turpin said: We still do not know how 130,000 cells and 50 million connections enable a fly to interact with each other and the world around it. Also, brains do not function like computers. No one is claiming we do. Mapping the connections is the first step in learning how it works. That's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MigL Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 3 hours ago, Luc Turpin said: Also, brains do not function like computers. It's not the small number of cells involved, but the 50 Million connections. Our best supercomputers are currently massively paralleled simple compute engines. The difficult part is the programming that executes on these simple computers for one or many processes to take advantage of the massive parallelism efficiently. Nature and evolution have been 'working' on the brain of insects like the fly, for about 480 Million years. It won't happen anytime soon, but give our guys a little time to figure out true AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordief Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 2 hours ago, exchemist said: No one is claiming we do. Mapping the connections is the first step in learning how it works. That's all. I understand that the "learning system" is made up of pairs of neurons. Do these neurons need to be located in proximity to each other or ste there pairs with "ends" at the opposite side of the brain? I wonder is the next step to digitise this representation and to stimulate it with diffferent inputs. I remember that film where Jeff Goldblum turns into a fly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exchemist Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 34 minutes ago, geordief said: I understand that the "learning system" is made up of pairs of neurons. Do these neurons need to be located in proximity to each other or ste there pairs with "ends" at the opposite side of the brain? I wonder is the next step to digitise this representation and to stimulate it with diffferent inputs. I remember that film where Jeff Goldblum turns into a fly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film) Haha I was just thinking about that film. But I haven’t looked into how these connections function in the brain. It’s a long way from my stamping ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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