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Fly Escape Room is a game featuring NPCs powered by a real fruit fly brain with 166k neurons, built with GPT-6 Astra over a 3-day loop, where players simulate flies attempting to escape.
The author presents a small transformer-based neural network trained from scratch to turn any image into a playable game, running in real-time on consumer GPUs like an RTX 5090. The model uses autoregressive decoding with KV caching but currently has issues with motion and context.
Google DeepMind has taken a minority stake in EVE Online's developer (now Fenris Creations) to use the game as a testbed for AI models, studying intelligence in complex, dynamic systems without affecting live players.