ashkaidev

A Stanford student put 166,700 fruit fly neurons in a robot that now writes homework for 30 students. Not one of them has picked up a pen since. The robot is a black aluminum rig with a blue ballpoint, writing square roots and fractions line after line in handwriting that doesn't look like a machine's, while the fly's neurons glow in the corner of the screen. Each student gives it a handwriting sample, and the fly learns the slant, the spacing, the size of the loops and where the letters get lazy at the end of a line, then writes as that student. 30 notebooks, 30 different hands and 1 brain. That brain is smaller than a poppy seed, and a human brain has over 500,000 times more neurons, but the fly doesn't get tired, doesn't smudge the ink and never mixes up whose 7s have a line through them. The teacher checks 30 notebooks, and a fly wrote every one.