This is not a fly uploaded to a computer

Last week, a fewer posts astir a alleged virtual "embodied fly" tore done X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn't look to recognize what it was they were excited about.

The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which says it's moving toward "digital quality intelligence" and claims it wants to physique a afloat integer emulation of a rodent encephalon wrong the adjacent 2 years - a timeline that is, to enactment it generously, ambitious. Cofounder Alexander Wissner-Gross shared the archetypal clip publicly, calling it the "world's archetypal embodiment of a whole-brain emulation that produces aggregate behaviors" and hinting a …

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