Quick, Draw!

Quick, Draw! is Google's new experiment in testing the powers of artificial intelligence. It has blown up over the internet over the past few days and has many people talking. Currently, it has been number 1 on the front page of Reddit and has many users drawing many different objects.

Quick, Draw! is similar to the game Draw Something, except instead of playing with others, the AI that Google created attempts to guess what you are drawing. You are given a simple word, like sink or piano, and you have 20 seconds to quickly draw that item while the AI speaks trying to guess what it is. These words can even range to The Great Wall of China to Speed Boat to simple things like Potato to Smiley Face.

It begins by realizing that the user is drawing lines and then begins to try and match up previously drawn objects by other users. It will begin to spout out random guesses until it guesses the right drawing. Sometimes the AI can guess in 10 seconds! It does have some trouble every once in a while due to the wide variety of ways that different objects can be drawn by different users.

Once you have completed 6 objects, it breaks down each object and you can see how it matched up the different drawings. It will even show you some of drawings that other users have created using the same word.

It really shows how far technology is coming. This is just one step further along in our AI capabilities to recognizing specific things. This program can differentiate between hundreds and thousands of entries to get one specific answer in just a matter of 20 seconds or less! Even though it cannot recognize the drawing from time to time, it is still quite a feat Google has been able to accomplish.

You can try this game out for yourself here.

Google has also updated a website to include other AI experiments similar to this one here.