Google has mapped the entire brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly for the first time. The resulting dataset, known as MaleCNS v1.0, contains a 3D model of over 166,000 neurons. The researchers have released the data to the public, allowing others to explore the fly's neural architecture.

The release of the dataset has sparked immediate interest from the software engineering community. Within days of the publication, the connectome was being trained to play Doom and Super Mario 64. This demonstrates the potential for using large-scale neural maps to control complex systems.