Mind-blowing Brain Map Reveals Every Neuron and Connection in a Fruit Fly

[@ClausRow]

Wow you are covering the thing I helped work on. My life is complete! xD This is awesome.

[@tinyderppotato5410]

that's so cool!

[@janew2108]

Thank you for all your hard work!

[@JobBouwman]

So do most flies have the same brain? Or are there differences between each pair of flies?

[@ClausRow]

@@JobBouwman That's a complicated question! Some cells in the fly brain are singletons. So each brain is expected to have that cell for instance innervating in the appropriate layer. They won't be identical but very similar. As for the exact morphology you can expect variation. Some of the cell types are numerous like the Tm cells. Each one in it's group is very similar to each other though they have their differences even inside the same brain. If you are curious you can check out the whole brain yourself it's all online, search for Flywire. Many citizen scientist helped make this a reality!

[@c_n_b]

Really wasn't expecting to see 2 flies banging doggy style

[@John-c4r1o]

Well he said they were simple, just add some beer and you'd have a basic frat party.

[@MikeMiller-s8h]

Maybe it was fly style the whole time?

[@DickGallo-dk7wi]

Bom-chika-wow-wow!

[@Searg-j6b]

Fr though

[@webgpu]

@@MikeMiller-s8h ....

[@barkmaker]

This flies in the face of reason.

[@attackoramic8361]

You should explain the joke before it flies over their head.

[@DickGallo-dk7wi]

Fly see what you did there

[@nerdbikes3841]

A humanoid robot with the brainpower of a fruit fly is terrifying to think about

[@DickGallo-dk7wi]

No grape will be safe!

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

It might already be there. How Israel was able to spy on Iran and Lebanon is so mysterious and Mike low. I think that only something invisible could give such a result

[@curtisdecoste9345]

Anyone do fruit fly experiments in high school trying to do something for genetics but basically just infested everyone’s locker with fruit flies. Oh, the 90s were great.

[@rutgerhoutdijk3547]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="81">1:21</a> "complex behavior" 😂

[@josephmartin1540]

Yes, virtual fly brains in a room temp quantum computer in a drone! "The same thing we do every night, Pinkie:..."

[@andrewepp6763]

I can’t help but get a little nervous hearing about how interested google is in mapping brains 😬

[@rallyfeind]

Intel is already doing the human one and has been building tech from the models.

[@jkirch264]

It's the most valuable real estate in the world, they're trying to find ways to aquire as much as they can.

[@jamiethomas4079]

Finalspark employee hooked up a brain organoid(lump of 10,000 neurons) across the internet to a butterfly in a simulation where it recieves input and controls the butterfly. That’s 100% the matrix. It’s a real brain living in a simulation.

[@williamklemp3764]

​@@rallyfeind Intel doesn't control our ad feeds or search terms, so it's not a great comparison. Idk about OP, but I'm much more comfortable with Intel mapping out brains than I am with Google doing the same 😒

[@heykerryann]

@@jamiethomas4079dude…..✌️

[@JoseAlba87]

Hello Anton. Thanks for great content

[@johnburnside7828]

I've always been afraid of getting lost in a fruit fly brain. Now I can rest easy!

[@fsq2396]

This is absolutely insane

[@EJBert]

Amazing first step, but one can only imagine the challenges with taking on conciousness!

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🫡😊

[@Aimsport-video]

So a little apple cider vinegar, touch of sugar and a drop of dishwashing detergent will defeat the AI robots chasing us?

[@TroyEagan]

This is both incredibly cool and very, very, scary because i think it's a huge step toward creating agi when combined with neuromorphic computing.

[@reachthesingularity]

This is insane. Much respect for the researchers and Princeton.

[@wafikiri_]

I'm no academic neuroscientist but have devoted longer than half a century to learn how brains really work and what's the meaning of all the nervous signals in them: the mystery of cognition. And finally I understood it all. Not only that, but also cognition in other systems, e.g., in microbial life. Once one knows the nature and the texture of cognition, the medium in which it resides becomes irrelevant.

[@joehopfield]

That tiny brain can integrate multiple sensory inputs, find food, water, mates, can walk and FLY! It's kind of hilarious that AI researchers can't even reason as well as a fruit fly despite using more energy than all the fruit flies that have ever lived, just to produce hallucinations.

[@MadDragon75]

Flies are amazing. If you haven't watched a satellite fly troll a wasp trying to lay eggs on the wasp's nest, I suggest watching that sometime soon.

[@BaronVonHaggis]

When Anton titles a video "Incredible" - I'm all in. ❤❤

[@Zookeeper.]

Wow.. I love connections 🎉

[@Kevin-hb7yq]

That has gotta be some cool new equipment for measuring those connections.

[@BrunoUtech]

Even flies know Doggy Style...

[@KLRJUNE]

I was not prepared for the image @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="80">1:20</a>. Not prepared at all.

[@alecity4877]

Will have on hand the next time I find myself inside a fruit fly's brain, last time it took me ages to find the exit without any directions.

[@allenwalters8812]

Why does it's brain look like it's made out of fruity pebbles?

[@rockapedra1130]

Let's see if they can input this connectome into a simulator and check if you get fly behavior. Doubt it very much.

[@dmsoundcollective6746]

Thank you so much for speaking calmly and slowly. Your awesome Anton😊

[@niveketihw1897]

The first part of this video made me want to replace the yellow sticky traps and refill the red wine vinegar traps.

[@Secretgeek2012]

Can't sleep. Pull up YT. See one of my favourites YT'rs dropped a video two minutes ago. Fruit fly porn. 😐 Fascinating video, as always! 😊

[@hedibenayed436]

OMG they bugged their computers

[@Starchybugger]

ty wonderful person

[@LordWaterBottle]

Fingers crossed that the Patent Office calls existing brains prior art

[@fr57ujf]

Given AI's accelerating effect on this project, there's no reason to assume future research progress will be linear.

[@AtomicApple-lk9gm]

Wait till they create thought maps. Or be able to re create motor neurons and have robots move like literal people.

[@hedibenayed436]

isn't that kinda of the first mind upload in the world

[@GIBKEL]

Gives me a glimpse of hope for my MS and all my friends, known and unknown that suffer neurological diseases.

[@DJTechnosapien]

So we used AI to assist people connecting a physical fly’s brain, so we could simulate an AI fly’s brain, so we could simulate their physical behavior. That’s nuts Edit: there’s no way in my mind the rate of progress will stay the same :) it will only accelerate as it always has

[@nycgweed]

So what do fruit flies think about

[@henryechezabal758]

They think of fruit and doggie style! You don’t need a neurological map to know that!

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

Elon Musk has also been known to have the ability to produce a lot of offspring. He's the fruit fly of humanity.

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

I know those brains. I’ve swatted a few myself.

[@KaChowAndTheGang]

I could use some brain right now

[@osmosisjones4912]

What about memory rna as suggested in Snails bu switching up their RNAs

[@osmosisjones4912]

Memory might made Glutinate or maybe orangent of Receptors and chemicals of synapse. Or maybe act structures or genetics markers . Or maybe all changyin the body can be considered memory. Bones carry memory. Or maybe sub atomic particles carry memory

[@robertlussier2944]

Don't let those fruit flies near my Apple iPad

[@SomeRandomGuy121]

Ever nearly sat on a fly n had it fly up to you fly about your face like haway man then do one shortly after? Happens all the time.

[@sleepycCh]

You said "relatively complex behavior" juxtaposed to an image of fruit flies mating. Is mating really that complex? I mean neurologically speaking

[@ImOverEveryone]

So, can we re-map all their brains to return to their hereditary point of origination now?

[@philochristos]

That is really amazing.

[@NeonVisual]

They shpuld have used my ex's brain instead. Its a little smaller than the fruit fly..

[@tomholroyd7519]

How long before they program a deep neural network with that, and control an actual robot fly?

[@CorporealUndead2024]

So basically these flies have a 6502 CPU and humans have an i9-9900k CPU as brains. Reverse engineering the 6502 is just the start. Imagine what we'll be able to do with the human brain in 40 years.

[@CorporealUndead2024]

Can't wait for governments to start using flies are spies. And in 40 years maybe they can start reprogramming people to "behave" better. LMFAO! We're doomed.

[@inplainview1]

*sigh* They told me this would remain private.

[@janew2108]

I wanted to send this to someone, but how can I explain the fruit fly mating image over and over. 💀

[@davidstevenson9517]

Thank you, Anton, for another "wonderful" science report. I regret, however, not having the brains to follow the direction the map suggests... Hello from New Zealand. 👨‍🏫🔬📡🌏🇳🇿🦎🌴🌊🙃⁉️

[@drunkpaulocosta]

My guess is 180 million jellybeans... Did i win?

[@osmosisjones4912]

Talked about 💣 ing an asteroid but what would happen if yiu 💣 a hurricane 🌀

[@henryechezabal758]

I always knew that someday they would succeed in mapping a fruit fly’s brain! Where is Gary Larson when you need him most?!

[@aurelienyonrac]

I hope they get to the part where scientist discover the visual to be coded like a hologram. And that with different algorithm you get different level of vision

[@SophiaKotz]

Your videos always inspire new discoveries and ideas. Thank you for your creative energy!😗💶🌛

[@curtisdecoste9345]

@4:07. Inspired me to look up if fruit flies mate “doggy style!” 😮

[@rudilator2178]

Lord of the Flies?

[@jehl1963]

I wonder how many MegaWatts of AI calculations were required to replicate the extension of the Fruit Fly's probosis?

[@Totalinternalreflection]

This kills the Fly

[@osmosisjones4912]

Thinking about the brain 🧠 well mind as civilization inside you rather then single network real helped understandable so much about the mind. And it was after cartoon about thing from world inside you affecting ourside you and vice versa. And all feelings in your body. . Osmosis Jones. Pixar was actually quite disappointing.

[@efx245precor3]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="82">1:22</a> complex behavior

[@ray1956]

As a Biology 🧬 major in the 1970’s I was able to change the fruit 🍌 fly’s eye color for the next generation of flies ( a course in Neurobiology 😄. I thought that was cool 😎👨🏿‍💻👀🤓

[@osmosisjones4912]

When looking at clouds ☁️ most common things seen are rabbits pilliow countri jerraffs Faces almost never seen. in fact Only times people see faces in random objects is specifically made to look like faces either in art . Or to say we a tebdensey to see faces so Their no objective reality onlyour own simulations

[@TheJudge1933]

Is that, *Nickacdoavocado?*

[@peteduch2151]

You should try that on kamala al you find is a sign room for rent

[@jeromemeyers7079]

glial cells, too?

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

The neuro-network of a brain is much like the cosmic web of the universe ! Who would of thought that ? 😛

[@jeremypermen1702]

I see a handy place to latch one onto a keychain

[@vileluca]

Concerning.

[@jorgechavesfilho]

Great!

[@EckCop]

Talking about fruit flies, here have an image of a hover fly.

[@Grant918Tulsa]

They're not using brain organoids. For the mapping seems like a waste.

[@GarrettFrechette]

What is brain?! What is BRAIN?!

[@George-rk7ts]

Nature turns up the power scale to eleven. Life turns up the complexity scale to 38. Nice work, wonderful sir.

[@NancyRode-u9i]

🙋🏽‍♀️💖anton everyday

[@dubstronaut]

Great! Just in time to continue training and developing a better AI brain!

[@stephenleblanc4677]

Great. So our AI overlords are going to be, AI drosophila?

[@KrakenLegz]

you know what photo brought me to the comment section

[@nawtmyrealnamelol]

So would a completely simulated brain in a computer be conscious or not?

[@webgpu]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">0:10</a> i think my mind is a bit perverted

[@Atok595]

To boring to fall asleep with. Send me your laundry, I’m waiting. 👃🏻

[@ratrindade3617]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="81">1:21</a>

[@crabbypaddy5549]

Well, I hope it is correct......I do not trust the new science anymore as 'the speed of science' is more important than correct analysis and correct results. I liked the old real methodical slow science better. :)

[@MrHangman56]

i doubt it'll take 100 years to advance enough to map a human brain. once a technology is figured out, things just explode and advance faster and faster, now that we know how to do it, what a program needs to map a brain, and that large compaies are interested in this field as well, it's only maybe a decade away i feel before someone advances an AI program enough to map a human brain for us. this is wishfl thinking, but if this is the first step towards me eventually being put into a robot body that can fly or withstand time, for at least a few centuries, i'm all for it. my 343 guilty spark dreams may yet be reality

[@Ta2dwitetrash]

Nice, they mapped the average brain of a politician.

[@osmosisjones4912]

Neuron actumove around by rather Send out their dendrites and Axons .

[@rolandwhittle8527]

Great they can do this with all our British politicians that fruit fly looks larger than theres 😂😂

[@XxTheAwokenOnexX]

❤️👍

[@rowshambow]

🎉❤

[@kaarlimakela3413]

❤😊

[@odeball22]

You mean unluckly Google picked it up.

[@kjanttigvu6887]

You >clearly< need a sense of humor to be a biologist. Fruit Flies F;cking! C'mon! LOL! 😂😂😂

[@janibeg3247]

College genetics lab animal

[@digitalplayland]

Another step in developing AI

[@jpsi9]

🧠

[@jannis11]

noICe

[@marcosgonza]

I don’t like this type of videos. This studies they all seems to shady. I’ll be back for star news.