The fruit fly's brain is training on Battletoads brain. It has not beaten the first punch. Yet.
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A computational experiment uses a complete reconstruction of a fruit fly's brain to live-train on Battletoads, aiming to beat the first stage through reinforcement learning and self-imitation.
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