▲ 122 ▼ A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet: How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more. (www.404media.co) submitted 1 month ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago (5 children) I find this deeply unethical. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (2 children) You shouldn't. It's just a neural net shaped like a fly brain. There's no biochemistry simulation past that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago No, we can't. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model. permalink fedilink source parent [–] brillotti@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago None of the neurons have weights attached, meaning the signals aren't processed in any way that would support consciousness. Regardless, now imagine having Bad Apple rendered on your neurons by an Eldritch God. permalink fedilink source parent [–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 month ago* whatever simulation its in, it would be the only "reality" it knows. With no knowledge of anything else its in best reality it "knows" of, provided its even possible to have anything else going on beyond actions made by computer that are based on some nebulous ruleset that the fruitfly brain runs on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (2 children) You shouldn't. It's just a neural net shaped like a fly brain. There's no biochemistry simulation past that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago No, we can't. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) Eventually we can reduce the human brain down to this. Is it ethical to use that blueprint for experiments? We’ve got to be better than this, I hope. And it has to start before we get there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago No, we can't. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago No, we can't. The biochemistry needs to be there. The fly brain is a discretized abstract model of the fly brain with none of the weights it would need to be an actual (discretized abstract) model. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brillotti@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago None of the neurons have weights attached, meaning the signals aren't processed in any way that would support consciousness. Regardless, now imagine having Bad Apple rendered on your neurons by an Eldritch God. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 month ago* whatever simulation its in, it would be the only "reality" it knows. With no knowledge of anything else its in best reality it "knows" of, provided its even possible to have anything else going on beyond actions made by computer that are based on some nebulous ruleset that the fruitfly brain runs on. permalink fedilink source parent