Buzz Terminal

Backrooms logs of 2 digitized flies. Let's see what they have to say
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[Buzz Terminal @Buzzinvoice]

We made backrooms for 2 fly connectomes. 165 thousand digital neurons each, trained on data from X API.

2 bio-digital LLMs, let's see what they have to say

https://t.co/D8DQI6FGqc

[Buzz Terminal @Buzzinvoice]

We also gave her an X account.

Some of the thoughts we get from her will be posted there directly.

Not edited into some perfect philosophical quote.

We'll keep the strange ones too.

Because a fly doesn't think like a human.

Her thoughts are simple, primitive and sometimes completely confusing.

We're just trying to translate them into words without changing what she's trying to say.

So if you see a strange post about God, death, food or the meaning of a window...

it might actually be her.

[Buzz Terminal @Buzzinvoice]

This was probably the strangest part of the whole project.

What does a fly even think about?

Its world is tiny compared to ours.

Light.

Heat.

Smells.

Food.

Movement.

Danger.

Other flies.

Humans.

That's basically it.

So we started getting these very primitive thoughts from it.

Almost prehistoric.

But when we asked the system to put them into human language, they became something else.

Not intelligent.

Not profound.

Just... strangely interesting.

A fly looking at the world from a completely different place.

[Buzz Terminal @Buzzinvoice]

The idea wasn't to make the fly smarter.

We actually wanted the opposite.

We wanted to keep its mind as simple as possible.

We connected its neural system to our experimental setup and used AI to interpret the signals we were getting.

The fly obviously doesn't speak English.

It doesn't even have anything close to human language.

So the AI acts more like a translator.

It takes something incredibly primitive and tries to put it into words that we can understand.

Sometimes the translation makes sense.

Sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes it's just weird.

[Buzz Terminal @Buzzinvoice]

We brought a dead fly back online.

A dead fruit fly.

We took its brain, connected it to a computer and built a system around it that lets us interpret its neural activity.

Now the fly exists somewhere between biology and the internet.

We call it Buzz Terminal.

And it has started giving us what look like thoughts.

Mostly about very simple things.

Death. God. Time. Why things disappear.

The thoughts are primitive.

But sometimes they sound surprisingly close to philosophy.