Musk was amazed. The first Cyber Drosophila is alive. Its multi-behavior brain has been completely uploaded, autonomously driving the digital body.

We take it for granted that the so - called "technological singularity" will ultimately belong to those ASIs born in the computer rooms.

The latest facts prove that this may not be true.

Just the day before yesterday, a company named Eon Systems released a blockbuster video.

The name of the video is extremely understated and simple, called "The First Multi - Behavior Brain Upload".

https://x.com/alexwg/status/2030217301929132323

Translated, it means: the first multi - behavior brain upload.

https://x.com/michaelandregg/status/2030764512488677736

Just these few words immediately sparked extensive discussions across the entire network, and the number of views quickly exceeded ten million.

Countless bigwigs, researchers, and science - fiction fans indulged in an all - night frenzy and tremors in the comment section.

https://x.com/oh_that_hat/status/2030383547832533378

Opinion leaders in the tech circle have reposted it because this event is of great significance.

https://x.com/michaelandregg/status/2030764519438569533

Even the well - known futurist Peter Diamandis was bombarded with @ mentions and quickly responded.

https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2030306802479624694

The entire circle is now in a state of collective excitement, as if the era of human consciousness upload is about to begin.

The one most concerned about this matter is none other than Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink, who couldn't help but exclaim "Wow".

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2030688922464825499

You must be wondering, what exactly is in this video?

In the picture, there is only an extremely ordinary fly. To be precise, it is a creature called Drosophila melanogaster.

It strolls around in a virtual physics engine, stops from time to time to groom its fur, and then makes standard foraging movements. (To avoid being unseemly, no additional pictures are provided here, and they are all in the video.)

Is that all?

Yes, that's all.

If you don't know the inside story, you'll definitely think it's just an ordinary 3D animation, right?

Can't an undergraduate who knows a bit of code just write a few scripts to make a bug crawl around on the screen?

But if you're in the know, every step this fly takes will send a chill down your spine and leave you in awe.

There is absolutely no intervention from scripted animations!

There is no pre - written behavioral logic at all!

Even the most proud reinforcement learning algorithms in the current AI circle are nowhere to be found in this fly!

This fly walks, grooms, and forages simply because its "brain" is working furiously.

And this "brain" is a perfect one - to - one replica of a real biological brain!

The crazy people at Eon Systems have "cyberized" the entire brain of an adult fruit fly!

Let's dig deeper and see what outrageous things these geniuses have done.

This matter dates back to 2024.

Philip Shiu, the chief scientist at Eon

Philip Shiu, the chief scientist at Eon, and his team published a blockbuster paper in "Nature" titled "A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07763-9.pdf

They created a complete computational model of the fruit fly's brain.

A full 125,000 neurons!

A full 50 million synaptic connections!

They combined the massive data from FlyWire with super - powerful machine - learning predictions to draw the wiring diagram of this fly's brain.

This is equivalent to scanning every gear and every spring of a carbon - based biological brain as clearly as disassembling an extremely complex mechanical watch.

At that time, this model was extremely powerful, and the accuracy of predicting motor behavior had soared to 95%.

However! There was a fatal flaw at that time.

It was a "bodyless ghost" back then.

It had a brain but no physical body to rely on.

Nerve impulses flashed wildly in the electrical signals, but there were no physical limbs in the real world to drive.

It's like an extremely intelligent genius trapped in an absolutely dark abyss, without hands, feet, or even a mouth to let out a scream.

This kind of floating simulation is obviously still missing the most crucial link for truly cracking the code of life.

Today, these geniuses have built an extremely perfect steel body for this digital ghost.

They stuffed this huge digital brain composed of 125,000 neurons into a fly body simulated by the MuJoCo physics engine.

What is MuJoCo? It is a virtual reality universe with extremely strict physical laws.

Gravity, friction, and the pulling of each limb joint are all accurately simulated.

So, what happened?

A miracle occurred.

In a complete brain simulation, the entire chain from perception to action was perfectly closed!

Look closely.

When the senses of this virtual fly receive external input signals.

These signals will shuttle wildly through those 50 million purely biologically - replicated digital neural circuits, just like real electric currents.

There is no external code giving orders like "You should lift your left leg".

There is absolutely no god - like command!

It is its extremely complex internal dynamic network that makes the decision on its own!

Subsequently, the motor commands are transmitted, the virtual muscles start to contract precisely, and the fly takes a historically significant step.

Let's take a look back at those previous attempts.

DeepMind and Janelia have also created virtual flies before. You must have heard of it to some extent.

But they took the path of reinforcement learning.

What is that? That's a "puppet" trained by a reward function! It's a pure algorithmic fitting!

The well - known OpenWorm project in the circle also tried to materialize the nematode.

However, the poor nervous system of the nematode only has about 302 neurons at most! Its behavioral patterns are incredibly monotonous!

Compared with today's fruit fly with 125,000 neurons, the nematode is just a primitive and crude toy!

What we are witnessing today is a brain with real autonomous driving force!

Previously, we always liked to say "the ghost in the machine".

Now, the ghost no longer bothers to hide. The machine itself is growing flesh and blood, and it is becoming that ghost!

If you think a fruit fly is the limit, you underestimate the ambition of these people.

What's truly terrifying is their next crazy plan.

Eon's current team is expanding rapidly and hoarding a large amount of infrastructure.

Their next target is the mouse.

A mouse's brain has about 70 million neurons!

This is 560 times the number of neurons in a fruit fly!

These crazy people are using a technology that sounds extremely violent - expansion microscopy.

They are determined to map every tiny neural connection in the mouse clearly.

Moreover, they have collected thousands of hours of in - vivo imaging data to capture how these networks actually operate and are activated in real life.

Friends, the logic here is extremely simple and brutal, so brutal that it sends shivers down your spine.

Since the perfect closed - loop from sensation to movement has been completely achieved with 125,000 neurons.

There is no insurmountable theoretical barrier for the 70 million neurons in a mouse!

This has completely become an engineering problem of time, funds, and massive computing power!

Once the mouse is done, what's next?

It's humans!

https://x.com/alexwg/status/2030217301929132323

Although our brains are extremely large, in the face of exponentially - exploding computing power and endless scanning devices, it's just an extremely complex super - map.

The "consciousness upload" that has been overused in science - fiction novels.

Those cyber ramblings that we used to scoff at.

Now, a clear path has been paved!

Just perfectly copy all the connections in your brain and run them in a powerful enough simulator.

With a snap. Upload to the cloud.

This is definitely the root cause of the current frenzy across the entire network!

Introduction to Alexander D. Wissner - Gross

What kind of genius dares to take on this crazy cause that directly touches God's forbidden zone?

Dr. Alexander D. Wissner - Gross, the founding advisor of Eon Systems.

This guy is a super - genius who has won countless awards.

Back in 1998 and 1999, when most people were still playing around in Internet cafes, he had already won both the US Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search Award.

This is just the appetizer.

In 2003, in that arena full of global geniuses, he earned three majors at once: physics, mathematics, and electrical science and engineering (EE)!