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I turned the fruit fly's connectome into a language model. It learned broken English.
MaleCNS v1.0 (Janelia / Google), as released. 167,565 neurons, 25.6M synapses. I made that the core of a spiking net and trained synapse strengths only. The wiring is still the fly's.
It learned language. ~16M tokens in, it produces stuff like Once upon a time, there was a girl smiled. The language is in the brain's activity, not just the readout.
It sees through its own eyes. Photoreceptors on both eyes into the optic lobes. A dopamine reward through the fly's own PAM / PPL1 cells is what actually got it to use the pictures.
It's still a fly. Put it back in a whole-brain fly sim and sugar still fires the proboscis.
It can live as a fly again. 30 simulated days with the language synapses frozen: the rest of the brain adapted around them. Language and reflex both still there.
Talk to it, show it pictures, sugar test, or let it live 1-30 days:
Space: Quazim0t0/MaleCNS-Fly
Model, code, write-up: Quazim0t0/MaleCNS-SpikeWhale-Anatomy-LM
Research experiment, not a chatbot. Simulation of the released wiring.
MaleCNS v1.0 (Janelia / Google), as released. 167,565 neurons, 25.6M synapses. I made that the core of a spiking net and trained synapse strengths only. The wiring is still the fly's.
It learned language. ~16M tokens in, it produces stuff like Once upon a time, there was a girl smiled. The language is in the brain's activity, not just the readout.
It sees through its own eyes. Photoreceptors on both eyes into the optic lobes. A dopamine reward through the fly's own PAM / PPL1 cells is what actually got it to use the pictures.
It's still a fly. Put it back in a whole-brain fly sim and sugar still fires the proboscis.
It can live as a fly again. 30 simulated days with the language synapses frozen: the rest of the brain adapted around them. Language and reflex both still there.
Talk to it, show it pictures, sugar test, or let it live 1-30 days:
Space: Quazim0t0/MaleCNS-Fly
Model, code, write-up: Quazim0t0/MaleCNS-SpikeWhale-Anatomy-LM
Research experiment, not a chatbot. Simulation of the released wiring.