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It’ll become interesting when we can teach the worm before “uploading”it, and the resulting NN already knows how to balance that pole without any further training. As is, The article sounds underwhelming

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The worm isn't "uploaded". Scientists painstakingly mapped out the physical structure of its neurons using some genetic engineering and lasers. This structure does not change from worm to worm.

I'm clear. That didn't prevent the authors from using that term anyway. And in their title, just to make sure not to confuse anyone.

EDIT : the author(s) of the press release used the word "upload". That term is nowhere to be found in the original paper as far as I can tell.

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