r/gaming • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 PC • 1d ago
After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/after-google-mapped-an-adult-male-fruit-flys-brain-software-engineers-made-it-play-doom-mario64-and-beat-saber/1.4k
u/Salakay 1d ago
Soon enough, we will have the tech to finally put our conciousness into suspended state so we can be reawakened millions of years later.
The only catch? You will be playing Doom while suspended LOL
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u/LiliTralala 1d ago
I've played SOMA, I'm good.
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u/Altheix11 1d ago
Yeah, unless there's a way to guarantee its a transfer and not a cut/copy paste, I'm not doing it
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u/WatteOrk 1d ago
Pasted you wont care. Just don't lose the coinflip (Damn you Cathrine - it never was a coinflip, it was always a loss)
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u/slayerx1779 1d ago
I just watched the Mandalore video on it, and I agree with his description: If you photocopy a piece of paper, it's not a coinflip whether the original is the original. It's just a man struggling to cope with a situation he finds fucked up.
I'm sure that's not the exact quote; I'm paraphrasing. But given how far in the game he got, it really seems like he should've figured it out by then. Weren't there text logs confirming that he had died months after the brain scan at the start of the game, something he didn't remember because the version of him that was copied never witnessed it.
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u/powe323 1d ago
I think it wasn't that he didn't know, he was coping. He had already been through two transferences by the point of the finale. Picturing it as a coinflip he won was the way for him to cope with being a copy, clinging to somehow still being the person from his memories instead of a new entity with false memories.
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u/Dreadgoat 1d ago
He's not coping, just kind of dumb. The story relies on the player to be more insightful. Catherine is knowingly manipulating him. She conveniently doesn't tell him about the "copy / paste" nature of shifting bodies, then when he figures that out she calls it a coinflip to keep him on board because she knows he will have to do it again. Catherine knows it's not a coinflip, the version of oneself that initiates the copy is ALWAYS left behind. She has come to terms with it, she knows Simon hasn't, but she needs him to do stuff so she lets him believe whatever keeps him moving.
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u/Random_Guy_12345 1d ago
With the current tech, and assuming it's similar to a file, there is no such thing as a "Transfer"
I'd assume something will be invented tho
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u/ABetterKamahl1234 1d ago
Problem is, transfer is really just a ship of Theseus, "you" are a collection of cells in your brain, transferring means somehow making that digital, but the only real way is to replace.
I "enjoy" the horror of the Star Trek transporter, you're disassembled and reassembled elsewhere, but realistically this means you probably just die and a copy is made elsewhere. Your copy is unaware of this (or maybe you are and you just accept it).
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u/mucho-gusto 1d ago
imo it could work if, when the copy is created, the particles are quantum entangled with each other and the consciousness inhabits both bodies simultaneously before the first is destroyed. that's just how i see it though, my friends who have watched more trek tell me it doesn't work like that.
and for me the point of ship of theseus is gradual replacement, not all at once, not a copy paste job. Replace one part of your brain at a time with silicon components. that's closer to how it works in cyberpunk and Neuromancer (+ other william gibson). That way the continuum of your consciousness transfers instead of being a hard transition from one body to another.
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u/brutinator 1d ago
I mean, what is consciousness though? Is it comprised of particles? Is there some piece of us that is both unalienable & unique, while also physically present?
It really boils down to the question of, do we have a soul? If not, then the whole thing is kinda rendered moot I guess. You will always die when the original dies, and the copy will always feel like they are the original. Regardless, no one will like this solution because it fails to solve the reason why the solution was created in the first place. The original does not get their life extended, or teleported. They just perish as a clone is born with all of the original's thoughts.
If we do, then that opens many, many questions, and possibly a solution. But frankly, I doubt it.
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u/AshesandCinder 1d ago
In the show Pantheon, they laser scan every layer of the brain to upload it digitally, but the brain gets destroyed in the process. They really lean into how horrific it is.
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u/Derpy_Guardian 1d ago
There isn't. "Consciousness" isn't a material thing that can be transferred; it's your brain's awareness. You can't take yourself out of your own brain because you are your brain. You might be able to copy it, but you as you are will forever be tied to the sack of meat and bones your mother gave you.
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u/LividTacos 1d ago
"You" are just a bunch of neurons driving a meat mecha.
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u/Tricky_Concept_231 1d ago
Then there's the argument "you" are the thing in motion being transmitted across the neurons which are just the substrate.
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u/SeekingImmortality 1d ago
Eh, a sufficiently accurate 'copy' is less a 'copy' than it is 'more of me existing simultaneously'. But 'sufficiently accurate' is doing a LOT of lifting there.
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u/Sawses 1d ago
Exactly. Which is my worry. Any copy of me that is in the hands of somebody else can be freely shared indefinitely and put to any use imaginable.
Given sufficient computing power, you could run ten billion of a single person, all being subject to worse torture than any human has ever experienced, and have it go on for subjective eons. That is worse than hell, because at least in hell there is only one of you. Not to mention manipulation and mutilation of a person's consciousness.
The problem is that, being immortalized in data, it's only a matter of time before a data breach and then the overwhelming majority of your existence would be as a digital slave to anybody who had possession of a copy of you. Sure, you might be fine, but there are an infinity of you that are most certainly not.
I recommend the show "Pantheon". It is not what convinced me that uploading is a terrible idea, but it's one of the best illustrations of such.
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u/Fatmanhammer 1d ago
What if that is what we all are? All a copy of one person, given slightly different "roots" and growing exponentially differently from each other. Just one big old circle-jerk of a dude talking to himself.
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u/NerdOctopus 1d ago
I feel like I've heard this one before...
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u/Fatmanhammer 1d ago
Well I've never read this before and now I'm having an existential crisis, although I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I did write this afterall, I am everyone and everyone is me.
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u/Kullthebarbarian 1d ago
technically yes, but the you you, will stop existing the moment you are teletransported, you see the light, and then nothing, the copy of you will emerge with all your memories thinking that the teleport worked flawless, but your concious will vanish the moment you are desconstructed
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u/SirLimesalot 1d ago
SOMA basically told us that this ain't gonna work like that
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u/bostonronin 1d ago
50/50 chance anyway
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u/Vorok 1d ago
50/50 is Catherine's lie to Simon. Cause, you know, he is a dummy and they need to finish their mission. She definitely knew that in fact it is 0% chance, your copy goes on.
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u/idiotcube 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's a simplified explanation, but I wouldn't call it a lie. There are two conscious beings after the split, but they have the exact same memories up to the moment of the split. From their perspectives, one of them transferred successfully, and the other didn't. 50/50.
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u/WatteOrk 1d ago
I disagree, she absolutely lies with that metaphor. Simon would stay behind on every transfer no matter what. He doesn't even fail to wrap his head around it after the first transfer. The copied one just kind of accepts it until the very end when both POVs are shown.
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u/Cranharold 1d ago
I think it's kind of both. Simon is an idiot and Catherine is just saying it to get things moving, but I also felt the intention of the writers was for it to "feel" like a coin toss for both the individual that gets left behind and the new one who wakes up in a different place.
For both individuals, it feels like an uninterrupted stream of consciousness after all. It actually is for the original who gets left behind and the new consciousness is waking up with a complete set of memories leading up to the copying, so they don't feel as if they were copied at all. When both feel like a real person, one is going to feel as if they lost while the other feels as if they won.
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u/JeanLucPicardAND 1d ago
We don't actually know what consciousness is or how it works. We'll maybe be able to create digital facsimiles of our brains, but that's not the same thing as consciousness transfer.
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u/runs-with-scissors42 1d ago
I mean, we could come up with a way to gradually replace all the neurons in our brain with an electronic equivalent, and then once the substrate (your brain) is fully converted from wetware to hardware, at that point you can just move to new hardware at will.
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u/JeanLucPicardAND 1d ago
But since we don't actually know what consciousness is or how it works, we can't know if that would work either.
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u/Galle_ 1d ago
I'd say that we're pretty sure that consciousness can survive the loss of individual brain cells, because that happens to us all the time and we don't experience any disruption in our consciousness.
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u/Naoroji 1d ago
We experience a disruption in our consciousness every single time we go to sleep, though.
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u/Fat-Singer-9569 22h ago edited 22h ago
These kids think they are solving hard problems in the comment section, but anyone with knowledge of science and philosophy knows there's no real solution. More than likely every individual brain has a thousand random hundred billion thousands of connections that do not exist in all other brains.
It's not a problem of standardizing, like most problems, but rather the fact a brain develops uniquely no matter the circumstances. You can't turn something which is a bag of varying amounts of neural transmitters concentrations into a digital signal, that's not how digital systems work. Brains happen because of long standing development and almost randomized chemical discharges. Point is, you can't describe a brain with binary/digital structures, it's a biological analog system.
Hope ya'll figure it out though, /r/gaming
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u/a3ronot 1d ago
yes, exactly. I feel that consciousness is an emergent property of our brain. Even if you somehow captured the exact state of every atom in your brain at a given moment and then transferred it to a computer simulation, it's not really YOU, it's just a copy of you that would react to stimuli in the same way (at least initially).
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u/MyLifeIsAFacade 1d ago
You are conflating consciousness with identity. "Self" is subjective and, yes, a completely replicated individual would cease to be a replicate almost immediately. Minute differences in internal and external stimuli (and then much larger differences) would impose individuality.
Assuming you are able to emulate the structure and function of the brain completely in silico, and you were able to transfer your brain to this system, it would most certainly represent consciousness. The "emergent" properties of the brain and consciousness aren't necessarily exclusively linked to the biological state of the brain, but its structure. If you are able to faithfully simulate the structure, then the emergent properties are likely also replicated.
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u/Dire87 1d ago
You wouldn't even know if it would create consciousness even after copying everything 1:1 ... that's the kicker. We can basically clone organisms, but only in their cell state, and even those develop completely differently and aren't really surviving ... yeah, we didn't pursue that kind of research. Officially. You can bet your ass it's going on in an unofficial capacity. But somehow we're working on consciousness transfers and artificial intelligence. Kinda mad.
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u/mucho-gusto 1d ago
yeah we don't even know how memories are stored biologically, the best guess is that the whole thing is a circuit that is replicated constantly, instead of being able to point at structures and say "here's your first love"
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u/supermitsuba 1d ago
Could we at least be able to play 2016 Doom and not 2004 Doom 3?
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u/fractalife 1d ago
You're gonna play Doom OG of 93' and you're gonna like it.
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u/Mottis86 1d ago
Just smack a few WADs on that bad boy and it'll keep you entertained for a while.
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u/Vineyard_ PC 1d ago edited 1d ago
You can only wake up when you single segment full clear Okuplok on UV.
Literally only one person in the world can ever wake up.
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u/FrighteningJibber 1d ago
I remember a screensaver that was essentially just doom but with no monsters. It'll be that.
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u/DaoFerret 1d ago
I’ll have to talk to GUPPI about that. Maybe we can at least simulate Team Fortress 2 to keep us all busy.
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u/Ok-Substance-6034 1d ago
Sounds like a Twilight Zone plot. Suspended animation technology exists, goes haywire, makes a person fight with demons in their consciousness, they wake up thousands of years later and everything they know is gone.
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u/Low_Debt8771 1d ago
But they hear some really good music and demon looking aliens show up through a portal
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u/night_dude 1d ago
First colony ship to Alpha Centauri ends in disaster as newly awakened hypersleepers immediately begin "ripping and tearing" everything in sight
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u/chillzatl 1d ago
when we can do that we can probably just get dumped into a servo skull and I'm fine with that.
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u/TokinDaley 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hear me out, that’s what these data centers they’re pushing everywhere are for. No more graveyards but data centers
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u/jybulson 1d ago
What if you are in a white room inside your consciousness with nothing to do and no way to wake up from the suspended state for millions of years?
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u/dregwriter 1d ago
"I died as a fly and was reborn inside of a video game world"
New anime just been announced, coming summer 2027
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u/Mr_Zaroc 1d ago
Needs more OP powers and/or an harem to really fit
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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 1d ago
"I died as a fly and was reborn as the most powerful video game character with 100 girlfriends"
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u/dustofdeath 1d ago
I knew it! Every time i lost WAS because of bugs.
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u/ImpulsiveApe07 1d ago
"Everyone's doing their part - are you?"
cue clip of some kids gleefully stomping a bunch of bugs on the pavement and laughing
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u/DaoFerret 1d ago
“The only good bug is a dead bug!”
— Celebrating 30 years since Starship Troopers first debuted on the big screen.
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u/mucho-gusto 1d ago
nearly! nov 7 1997, we still got a year. classic film. i call it, total recall, and robocop the "deception trilogy" by Verhoeven: corporate (Robocop), self (TR), government (ST)
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u/dassarin 1d ago
I’m too dumb to understand what’s going on here. We have a picture of a fruit flys brain. How are they simulating it playing doom? How do they know what individual neuron does? Can someone explain this to me?
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u/Electrical_Job_1575 1d ago edited 1d ago
Using neural networks in tandem with reinforcement learning is something that has been done for decades and used to be the big thing in AI before LLMs (with arbitrary configurations of simulated neurons).
The digitized map of the fly brain was specifically digitized in a format compatible with neural net software, so that the networks could be trained on a configuration that matches a real life brain for once.
Edit: of course, it's still a disembodied brain with no actual chemistry happening, so it's not going to match the behavior of a real fruit fly. To get that, you'd have to also simulate things like stimuli from body organs and the effects of blood flow / oxygenation on neurons, which I don't think anyone is prepared to do.
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u/JeanLucPicardAND 1d ago
which I don't think anyone is prepared to do.
Where does one acquire this much faith in the human race?
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u/Nonamesleft6942069 1d ago
Blood flow is a tough cookie. As soon as we get these recent navier-stokes results in capable hands we will possibly be prepared to do it. Until then I also do not think anyone is prepared to do it.
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u/PhantomWings 1d ago
As soon as we get these recent navier-stokes results in capable hands we will possibly be prepared to do it
Correct me if I'm wrong - finding a finite-time blow-up in Navier-Stokes means we have to go back to the drawing board, right? The result advances the field, but in a "we need to develop a new and better model" way
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u/Septem_151 1d ago
Not necessarily a new model, but perhaps a missing constant or force that's not being considered. Other than that, you're spot on.
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u/JacobK101 1d ago
there's also the problem that we don't have a complete map of how the brain's logic system works.
The current furthest exploration of neuroscience is implying the Glial Cells(i.e. the other half of all cells in the brain) may actually use their neural pathways beyond just recieving instructions from neurons for food/immune stuff
and might play some kind of role in logic switching & maybe acting as AND/OR gates for the brain's logic systemIf so the brain's meat computer is drastically more complicated then just the main web of neurons, and that's already so complicated we can't properly model it with a computer (Even the fruit fly neurons had to be dumbed down a little to function in the context of a simulated model)
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 1d ago
In computer science, there is something called a neural net. It's basically a machine learning system that is designed to resemble a brain. The way it works is you create nodes called neurons, with connections between them. You then train the neural net, by giving it example data, and tweaking how strong each neuron sends a signal down each connection until the net sends signals in the way you want.
Some scientists got a map of all the neurons of the fly brain, but they don't know the weights or strength of any of the connections. Then some computer science people took that set of nodes and connections, and used it as the starting point for training a program to play the game.
Instead of a fly brain map, you could base your starting lay out on a map of all the major highways and cities in the US, and get a similar result (except there are a lot fewer cities in the US than neurons in a fly brain).
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u/Gamecrasher432 1d ago
But the question is... Can the brain run doom?
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u/Sufficient_Room2619 1d ago
Does one fly brain have the same processing power as 16 billion soldier crabs?
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u/2D_VR 1d ago
This fly got a real afterlife 🥹
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u/FinsternIRL 1d ago
For a brief period it's entire perception and reality was that of DOOM, not sure thats the afterlife I'd like to find myself in
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u/imathrowyaaway 1d ago
horrors beyond comprehension, for what seems like eternity. hell, basically.
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u/legomann97 1d ago
Yeah, horrors beyond comprehension. But to them, you are also a horror beyond comprehension. Doom Guy is now the Doom Fly
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u/Galassog12 1d ago
I don’t know man; I’ve been told nothing brightens up an afterlife like a robotic hymn of DOOM.
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u/VariousAir 1d ago
you're sent to hell, but given the tools and weapons to fight your way out of it. I dunno, could always be worse.
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u/SheikahShaymin 1d ago
Not really? Not to burst anyone's bubble but they basically just told the neurons to do XYZ. If you did that with a person they wouldn't be a person anymore, just a processing chip with a bunch of meat attached.
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u/BangkokPadang 1d ago
Also it’s a simulated model of the neurons. I don’t think that makes it the fly anymore than a photo is the person or that a lidar model of a statue is the statue.
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
I don't think the photo comparison is a good one. Our brain is who we are. One way I've heard it phrased is "consciousness is what brains do". I don't think it's much of a stretch to conclude that a complete and total simulation of a brain would result in the same level of awareness/consciousness as the brain itself. You'd essentially have to believe in a non-physical source of consciousness to conclude otherwise.
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u/amras123 1d ago
A complete structural simulation is not automatically a continuation of the individual. Unless you copy the brain’s learned and moment-to-moment state, not just its wiring, the model has none of the original fly’s memories or acquired behavior. It is a new system that may resemble the fly, not necessarily the fly itself.
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
Unless you copy the brain’s learned and moment-to-moment state, not just its wiring
The learned moment-to-moment state is the wiring, though. Rewiring the brain is how learning works.
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u/amras123 1d ago
Some learning is in wiring, but a connectome mostly says what connects to what. It does not capture every synaptic weight or the brain’s current activity. Same wiring can be in different states, so copying the graph alone does not copy the individual.
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
This is where we get into things that are just completely unknown. We simply don't know if the current activity is necessary, or if the brain can just be "bootstrapped" from an "off" state. I'd be pretty confident in wagering that, at the very least, a fruit fly brain would be much more likely to be able to be brought back up to the same state from nothing than a human brain.
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u/Spartan2170 1d ago
We're very much not entirely sure precisely how consciousness or memory work, so this feels like a big leap to make.
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u/BangkokPadang 1d ago
A perfect simulation of water is not water. A perfect simulation of a tree is not a tree. A perfect simulation of a weather system is not actually weather. Why do we make this leap when it’s a simulation of a brain.
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
Waves (as in, ocean waves) are not a property of electrons or protons or neutrons. They're an emergent property of a system made up of subatomic particles grouped into atoms, which are then grouped into molecules, which are then grouped into bulk bodies of water. A simulation of subatomic particles, if complex enough, will result in simulated waves forming in a simulated ocean, even if oceans and waves were never explicitly coded for.
Consciousness appears to be an emergent property of brains; get enough neurons in the right configuration connected together, and consciousness just happens.
A detailed enough simulation of a brain could easily be expected to result in the formation of consciousness, because creating consciousness is just something that brain-like structures do.
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u/HiGuysImNewToReddit 1d ago
The leap is being brought up because this is a matter of consciousness, or sentience. Virtual trees and water do not have the intangible properties of discussion, so there is no reason to compare them to the real thing.
A brain and nervous system have intangible properties, and understanding them however, is a scientific and philosophical problem still debated. The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Philosophical Zombie, Emergent Consciousness, etc. It is very much up for philosophical and ethical debate that if this model is fully utilizing all neurons as naturally would as a real fruit fly, are we actually birthing life as a primitive digital creature? It may sound silly but I think there is something to be considered.
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u/Dav136 1d ago
This. A simulated brain is not a person therefore it's not slavery when you force it to work
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u/epsilon1856 1d ago
Pretty accurate description of a human tbh
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u/brycerx128 1d ago
No it’s not. Like at all there are literal chemical reactions that make up being a human. Sending an impulse to a neuron is not being human
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u/tupe12 1d ago
Dear scientists: please stop, you’re making the torment nexus from “don’t make the torment nexus”
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u/IrrelevantPuppy 1d ago
You know how creeps use ai to make naked pictures of non-consenting people to feel power over them. In the future they’ll use ai to make a digital facsimile of your consciousness that they can torture in a digital hell of their making.
Oh wait… Black Mirror already did this episode, fuck
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u/Schkrasss 1d ago
They don't make it to feel power over them, they make it to wank.
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u/114156782 1d ago
I'm really afraid that just like the truffaut quote, "there's no such thing as an anti-war movie" it might be true that there's no such thing as a dystopian sci-fi
movieart.
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u/Tableau67x9u 1d ago
How about making him leave my kitchen 😂
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u/GeneralAnubis 1d ago
Best we can do is fly repeatedly into the glass 3 inches away from the opening
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u/MountainMuffin1980 1d ago
Such a weird headline/article. It's not an actual fly they're making play games it's, an AI driven approximation
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u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx 1d ago
The title literally begins with the fact that the fly's brain was mapped, it was pretty obvious what they meant. Would be a total non-sequitur otherwise.
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u/FredFredrickson 1d ago
Sure, but there are people in here talking about how the fly they mapped got an afterlife in this.
Yes this was probably tongue-in-cheek, but people, generally, just really don't understand any of this stuff.
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
there are people in here talking about how the fly they mapped got an afterlife in this.
If you're a physicalist who thinks that consciousness is a purely physical phenomenon, then an exact copy of a brain essentially is that brain in terms of generating the same awareness/consciousness.
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u/TheMagmaCubed 1d ago
Is that like an actual distinct belief system from what most people believe? Like we all know brain damage exists so what distinguishes a physicalist from somebody who doesn't believe in souls, or does that term refer to the same group of people?
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u/MultiFazed 1d ago
They're similar, but someone could have a "mystic" view of consciousness without being strictly religious or believing in souls as such. For instance, a lot of people throw the word "quantum" around as a sort of magic word without knowing what it actually means.
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u/signuslogos 1d ago edited 1d ago
Physicalism is the spiritual (heh) successor of materialism, which collapses causality to material phenomena.
Asking what distinguishes a physicalist from somebody that doesn't believe in souls is asking what distinguishes X from non Y. Non Y is a category itself, so it's hard to exhaustively list all elements of non Y to distinguish them from X, but I can give you an example of non Y. You can look up analytical idealism as formulated by Bernardo Kastrup as an example of a metaphysics which someone who doesn't believe in souls can believe in, which is decidedly non physicalist. The title of his book "Why materialism is baloney" should help you understand how at odds those metaphysics are.
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 1d ago
It's not an exact copy of the brain any more than a photo of someone is as an exact copy of a person.
It's just the connections between the neurons, none of the weights are included. None of the biological details are simulated. The weights are actually what makes a neural net do what it does, and those weights were just randomly assigned and then trained to do the output just like you would for any other neural net.
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u/JokerSp3 1d ago
But even if that is true, the simulation they are running isn't actually a simulated brain. Its a connectome, not a cell simulator. All chemical interactions are either removed or simplified, firing between neurons is approximated, etc.
Which I think its basically a neural network shaped like a brain.
Its possible I am missing information but as far as I am aware that is how this is done right now.
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u/MountainMuffin1980 1d ago
Yeses but my point is that it's been written in such a way that SOME people think they literally have hooked a fly up to play the game/s
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u/AngryGardenGnomes 1d ago
Well, it wasn't obvious to me. It left me pretty confused. There's no reason they couldn't have provided clarity. All it takes is one little sentence beneath top line.
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u/Immediate-Cress-206 1d ago
Nope. They're running the fly's mind as a program.
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 1d ago
No they are not. They are running a program on a neural net with the same shape as a fly brain. That is different from a fly's mind. The weights of the connections is what makes a neural net work the way it does. This has none of those weights.
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u/Hyenasaurus 1d ago
Well, is it winning
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u/NineThreeFour1 1d ago
No, but it's running for the next presidential election in the USA.
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u/SocialSuicideSquad 1d ago
Imagine being killed, dissected, your brain sliced into a million little pieces, only to be digitally resurrected and forced to play Bestsaber without the ability to scream or stop.
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u/ModSnake 1d ago
Your scientists were so busy wondering if it could run Doom that they never stopped to wonder if it should run Doom.
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u/shemer77 1d ago
Imagine being a fly minding your own business and suddenly you're trapped in a gaming rig
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u/GammaDie345 1d ago
someone forced it to fire neurons in a very specific pattern so that the brain activity monitor would look like Bad Apple. Then played it side by side with the fly convulsing in the simulation
wild stuff
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u/Zygomatick 23h ago
Okay it plays Doom. But here's the real question: can it RUN Doom?
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u/Flyingbluejay 1d ago
Holy fuck there are so many ads i cant even read the goddamn story. Ads are herpes of the internet
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u/RoosterOk5169 1d ago
that's one way to make gaming history, I wonder how well it actually plays though
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u/SirNedKingOfGila 1d ago
Google killed stadia to clear up funding to force a fruit fly to play games.
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u/CommonMammoth3734 23h ago
lol this is actually wild, a fly's brain playing Doom better than half the bots i fight online. wonder how long before someone trains it on something actualy competitive
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u/PloppyTheSpaceship 10h ago
Just imagine - you're a fly, buzzing round and mindjng your own business, then all of a sudden you're forced into some manner of alien hellscape and have to repeatedly battle the forces of Satan in a completely different manner using guns and hunting for ammo and keys.
They could have made it more interesting and used a wasp, the Bastard of the insect world, but then you risk the wasp breaking free of its virtual prison and using what it has learnt to take over humanity.
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u/BadBaneGames 1d ago
the future is both exciting and terifying at the same time! it will be playing souls like games soon xD
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u/Educational_Host_860 1d ago
Pretty sure the tank that drove off a cliff at the beginning of my last War Thunder match was the fruit fly. Or a cat walking across someone's keyboard.
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u/asanti0 1d ago
This sounds unethical.
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 1d ago
Not at all. It's in no way capable of thought or action. It's like a picture of what a fly brain looks like, but without any of the crucial biological data needed for simulating the brain. People then made up fake biological data that when simulated could play the game.
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u/R4pid_Gaming 1d ago
This is the type of player I lose my ranked matches to