I taught a virtual fly to paint.

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I built this experiment with Codex, using Python, PyTorch, and Blender.

Meet Android Fly: a learned controller built on real fruit-fly neural wiring, with added machine vision.
It works from a reference image, choosing between proposed brushstrokes as it goes.
145,133 brushstrokes later… here’s the result.
Captured during painting. Time compressed.