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Ethan Mollick Reacts to @odysseyml’s Fruit Fly Brain Simulation
- Who
- Ethan Mollick
- What
- comments on Odyssey's demonstration of a fruit fly brain flying in simulated worlds
What happened
@odysseyml says it placed the fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, a frontier world model, where it is flying around imagined, simulated worlds by itself. Both interesting and viscerally unsettling. https://twitter.com/odysseyml/status/2111589148146749616
The story so far
Odyssey said it placed a fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, which it described as a frontier world model, and that the brain was flying autonomously through imagined, simulated worlds. Ethan Mollick called the demonstration “both interesting and viscerally unsettling.”
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