{"slug": "researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom", "title": "Researchers Mapped a Fruit Fly Brain. Software Engineers Got It to Play Doom", "summary": "Researchers from HHMI Janelia, Google Research, and other collaborators used AI to produce a complete brain map of a male fruit fly, a years-long project announced in a Google Research blog post. Software engineers then used the fruit fly brain map to play the video game Doom, demonstrating the connectome in a non-scientific application.", "body_md": "Researchers recently used AI to create a brain map of a male fruit fly, and what better way to take advantage of that breakthrough than to use it to play Doom?\n\nThe team from HHMI Janelia, Google Research, and other collaborators [say](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/male-fruit-fly-brain-map/) their \"years-long project,\" which includes …", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom", "canonical_source": "https://au.pcmag.com/games/119874/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom", "published_at": "2026-09-11 19:09:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 19:49:07.880843+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "neural-networks", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["HHMI Janelia", "Google Research", "Doom"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/researchers-mapped-a-fruit-fly-brain-software-engineers-got-it-to-play-doom.jsonld"}}