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IS THERE ANYTHING A FRUIT FLY BRAIN CAN'T DO?

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Researchers at the Janelia Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, in partnership with Google, recently published a new map of the adult male fruit fly's brain. The effort, which involved hundreds of scholars, resulted in a complete map of the fly's 166,000 neurons that can be trained to complete tasks like solving a Rubik's Cube or playing poker. Internet engineers and artists have made the model complete many seemingly impossible tasks for a fruit fly, like parallel parking a car, playing Doom, and trading cryptocurrencies.