Fruit fly brain upload
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:36 pm
A fruit fly has successfully been uploaded. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y
140,000 neurons. It's the first complex brain to get uploaded. If you fire up the brain in an emulator and present it with a taste input, it will stick out it's tongue. How cool is that? I expect the quality of fruit fly uploads and emulation environments to gradually improve over the next few decades. I also expect a mouse to get uploaded within the next few decades. They have already been working on it. Yes, of course these first uploads will have a bit of "brain damage", but they will certainly get better with time, and the public opinion will inevitably shift to treat all of this as normal and expected.
140,000 neurons. It's the first complex brain to get uploaded. If you fire up the brain in an emulator and present it with a taste input, it will stick out it's tongue. How cool is that? I expect the quality of fruit fly uploads and emulation environments to gradually improve over the next few decades. I also expect a mouse to get uploaded within the next few decades. They have already been working on it. Yes, of course these first uploads will have a bit of "brain damage", but they will certainly get better with time, and the public opinion will inevitably shift to treat all of this as normal and expected.