Developer builds tic-tac-toe agent using real fruit fly brain wiring data

A software developer has created FlyCNS-TicTacToe, a project that uses publicly available fruit fly connectome data to simulate neural decision-making in a game of tic-tac-toe. The fruit fly connectome is a complete map of the insect's nervous system, detailing every neuron and its connections, which the developer accessed via the neuPrint database. Real synapse counts and predicted neurotransmitter types from the dataset were used to route game-board signals through a subset of the fly's central brain neurons. Because the biological circuit lacks strategic look-ahead, a minimax algorithm guides move selection while the fly circuit is used to break ties among equally strong options. The project is open-source under an MIT licence, with connectome data credited under CC-BY, and the code is available on GitHub.