Fruit Fly, Minus the Language Model

Field notes

The project presents responses as transcripts produced by a simulated nervous system, with each reply allotted 600 milliseconds of “brain time.” Its stated substrate is the male Drosophila connectome: 165,122 neurons and 10.2 million measured synapses. The examples are deliberately nonverbal in spirit, including “banana is sweet” and “dont think so. its damp,” while the page emphasizes that the system does not use a language model or know why it reacts.