There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born. @eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do. Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is. A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action. A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵

AI alignment converges to uploading - the only perfectly aligned agent is ultimately an emulation of you.

Join us for Vision Weekend USA, our annual flagship event bringing together leading researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders at the forefront of science and technology! This year’s theme – “AI for X” – explores how AI can accelerate breakthroughs in longevity biotech, neurotech, and other transformative fields. 📍 Dec 5–7 | Bay Area Confirmed speakers include: • Ed Boyden (Boyden Lab) @eboyden3 • Laura Deming (Until) @LauraDeming • Andrew Trask (OpenMined) @iamtrask • Viren Jain (Google) @stardazed0 • Liv Boeree (Win-Win Podcast) @Liv_Boeree • Chiara Marletto (University of Oxford) • Alan Mardinly (Science) @mardinly • Cate Hall (Astera Institute) @catehall • Adam Brown (Google DeepMind & Stanford University) • Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) • Joe Betts-LaCroix (Retro) @bettslacroix Get tickets: foresight.org/events/vision-…

📣 New Funding Alert: We've opened our 4th Request for Proposals studying Science of Perception Box!✨ We're awarding up to 10 grants (up to $900K each) to study how beliefs & experiences shape perception. LOIs due Oct 7. Read more and apply here 👉 tinybluedotfoundation.org/re…

AlterEgo previews tech to command AI & computers via "silent speech" - capturing signals from cranial nerves and motor units, with a wearable around the ear bone conduction feedback. Non-invasive, no EEG or brain electrode recordings. They plan a public reveal at Axios AI Summit (mid-Sept). See also: media.mit.edu/projects/alter…

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What parts of the brain are responsible for conscious experience? Neuroscientist and consciousness researcher Christof Koch spoke with @deepakchopra about his journey to neuroscience, his work with Francis Crick, and thoughts on artificial intelligence. youtu.be/7wN2BAD28uU?si=LghS…

A tiny piece of brain tissue has made neuroscience history. We recently shared the most complete functional map of a mammalian brain to date...and we're just getting started.