Fruit flies are a hugely useful animal model of the brain. They're more docile than mice and rats, which have long breeding times or expenses. Nobody has any ethical qualms about fruit flies at all - except maybe Hindus. And also then it's like this starting point for 3D image generation in AI.
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Correction: Elon Musk's company is named xAI, not x.AI.
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