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Quick, Draw
- SquareWheel 10y agoWell this is surprisingly fun. I just worry I'm making a mess of the machine learning with my terrible doodles.
- hailpixel 10y agoThe network guessed some of the "correct" answers far to quickly. For example, with just an L shape (|_) it guessed suitcase. Feels like the model is suffering from overfitting. Fun though.
- rolfvandekrol 10y agoFor me a bit less extreme, but it guessed 'police car' when all i drew was a poor car doodle. there was nothing about that car the would make it a police car.
- joncalhoun 10y agoI wonder if it has a very small pool of potential drawings. Eg if it only has "police car" and no other cars it might be able to jump straight to police car after seeing a car. It also seems to constantly have a "best guess" to some degree and if that happens to be correct it confirms pretty quickly.
- dagw 10y agoOn the flip side of this, I was asked to draw a "telephone". It guessed first "cellphone" and then "phone" before giving up and saying it didn't know.
- Mayzie 10y agoI was asked to draw a "phone". Drew a telephone (the old ones with a rotary dialler, because that was quickest to draw), and it guessed "telephone", but it was incorrect :-( EDIT: Drew a "cake", it guessed "birthday cake". Wrong answer apparently.
- joncalhoun 10y agoIt definitely doesn't have any knowledge of similar drawings.
- pan69 10y agoThe premise seems to be a little odd, i.e. I tell you what to draw and then I guess what it is. I guess it would have been more of an A.I. challenge if the premise was; draw anything and I'll try to guess what it is.
- gcp 10y agoIt's weird but the computer can choose not to cheat and forget the answer when guessing. Not possible for humans.
- csydas 10y agoIt's possible, but I'm not entirely convinced that this is honest, or at least not really accurate. It's far too eager to try to match it to something than it is to figure out what it has. It could figure out most of my drawings but it would get them well in advance of me completing anything substantial (like others, I would be asked to draw a leg and draw just a curved line and it would guess leg before I finished). Trying to draw what it asked for but with some unusual features (like lines or dot patterns around what it asked for before drawing it) and it gets extremely confused; it doesn't really seem to be good at filtering out any noise: http://imgur.com/a/oE1j2 http://imgur.com/a/oE1j2 (gallery of results and what it thought it saw. Drawing things it didn't ask for just to see what it was guessing resulted in some really strange responses and fits. The answer set it has is extremely limited, so something like a hand giving the horns (\m/) was last guess a duck. A moose was a scorpion, then a duck, then a hand. Godzilla (or a bipedal dinosaur if you prefer) was a vase, then a scorpion, then a boat. My loaf of bread was a washing machine, an anvil, then a postcard. The Deathstar was a bandage, a helicopter, and a lighthouse. And a chainsaw was considered an aircraft. Between the disruptive patterns and drawing things outside of it's vocabulary, the system seems really confused. Looking at the comparison results, I can see how when drawing some things it got it real fast. (Tennis Rackets were mostly defined by a crosshatch pattern, Harps by a series of parallel vertical lines). This makes sense. For other things, not as much. It might be a more convincing presentation to give the user a list of items the machine knows (the full list) and tell the user to try to draw some, and then the computer could check it off as it gets them. That seems like a better way of presenting this than "Draw a box. hey! you drew a box! Isn't that cool?"
- tzaman 10y agoFor my L shape, it recognized a leg immediately (which was what I was supposed to draw)
- evincarofautumn 10y agoYup, the minimalist Picassoesque renditions I was able to do on my laptop trackpad were still recognised as long as I gave a vague impression of the major shapes I figured other people would draw. The result was the kind of image where a human would frown at it until you said “kangaroo”.
- Sohakes 10y agoIt's because it gets the most plausible answer, even if it's only a small chance of being correct. If there are not that many words, there are only a few objects that could be draw with a L shape like that. I mean, even if you draw something else starting with a L shape, it will probably be a slight different L shape (with a curve, for example). I think that's it, doesn't really mean it's overfitting, it would mean that if the probability was really high.
- oliv__ 10y agoYeah it seemed to make the correct guess a liiiitle too fast for me.
- Kesty 10y agoThe ai keep throwing guesses in 20 seconds until he got the right one. So if you draw a simple shape it start to go trough the list of things he recognize and end the game there. It works great for this game because he can have very fast answer but only work win the cases when you actually have a feedback that eliminate all the wrong guesses. Basically if it simply went trought the whole english dictionary fast enough he could get the same result without even looking at the pictures.
- bambax 10y agoImmediately crashes the page on Chrome 54.0.2840.99 m...
- zydeco 10y agothis is nothing like Apple QuickDraw
- jonstewart 10y agoKids these days, probably don't even realize the reference to Quick Draw McGraw.
- Mayzie 10y ago20 seconds is far too quick for me to draw anything more substantial than a few simple geometric shapes with a computer mouse.
- cocochanel 10y agoMy doodles are terrible data points but this was a lot of fun! Guessed a few of them right, although a bit too fast :)
- wbillingsley 10y agoOf course it just takes one juvenile prankster to say in a crowded room "You won't believe what it recognises phalluses, poo emoji, and bottoms as" and it's going to be Microsoft Tay all over again. So nobody do that, right. Seriously, don't even think about it. (More seriously, I think I might have been de-trainging it by trying to draw the correct drawing using a touch-pad... rather too many of my phones seem to look like tornados by the time the dang thing's got stuck in draw mode trying to click-and-drag to draw)
- softbuilder 10y agoSo it tells you what to draw, then it tells you what you drew, and that is useful and/or amazing?
- simonh 10y agoAs explained at the beginning, the purpose of the exercise is to train it.
- PerfectElement 10y agoWho said it was supposed to be useful or amazing?
- softbuilder 10y agoFair. It was posted and voted up so perhaps I inferred that it would be useful or amazing.
- bnegreve 10y agoI think GP has raised a fair point. The landing page says: "Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles" but the game doesn't demonstrate that the ANN is able to recognize arbitrary objects. It merely shows that it's able to pick the correct name from a finite list of possible names that could very well be small (e.g. 10 or 20 object names). A better way to demonstrate that the ANN is truly able to recognize objects with good accuracy would be to ask a person to draw an unspecified object and guess its name. If the goal is to acquire training data, they could still ask for a name in case of failure.
- bnegreve 10y agoBTW: this reminds me of detexify[1], the tool that can recognize latex symbols from handwritten drawings. Same problem. [1] http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
- kriro 10y ago"""Our neural net saw something else in all of your doodles. Select one to see what it saw.""" The ones I remember: bed, apple, spreadsheet, rollercoaster :D
- andy_ppp 10y agoThis game seems to essentially be win lose or draw the gameshow; the computer is throwing out some random variations like contestants guessing. It makes it easy for the computer to try 'car' the getting a no it tries 'police car'. I wonder how many things it understands... We are so far from general AI. It's so strange how our brains can refine existance down so easily... how many CPUs is the human brain worth as far as we know?
- robbiep 10y agoit guessed phone when asked to draw phone but obviously wasn't strong enough a match because it moved on without getting it right before coming back to it twice. Finally stayed on blackberry after doing cellphone. Requires some weighting to get there?
- Mayzie 10y agoAs a non-American, I don't know what half of these objects are..
- dagw 10y agoWhich ones? The only one that felt 'American' to me was "school bus", but I've watched enough American TV and film to know that that is a thing.
- yitchelle 10y agoI got toilet, so I drew a hole in the ground. I guess I am not their target market..
- dagw 10y agoTheir 'target market' is whoever uses the site. The program has no preconceived notion of what a "toilet" is so if enough people draw a hole in the ground for a toilet then it will start to recognize that as a toilet.
- yitchelle 10y agoThis could use this in the next election. It would be an interesting outcome!
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThere's no school buses in your country?
- dagw 10y agoNot really. Most kids walk or bike to school. In places where public transport is built out kids that need to take a bus to school just use that. In the places that offer dedicated buses to take kids to school the county just charters buses from the local bus company. The idea of a school bus as a visually distinct concept doesn't exist.
- accurrent 10y agoIt would be an interesting exercise to collect these doodles as a dataset and publish them. It could give insight into what are the key identifying features we look for as humans in relation to the world around us.
- vanderZwan 10y agoThey could also combine it with recaptcha to filter out the trolls.
- Munksgaard 10y agoIt couldn't guess my aircraft carrier. The reason: Other people draw aircrafts instead. http://imgur.com/a/xtdYE http://imgur.com/a/xtdYE For reference, here's my carrier http://imgur.com/a/DL7js http://imgur.com/a/DL7js
- troebr 10y agoThat's a sad looking crocodile
- roryisok 10y agoThose planes start to devolve into banana skins as you go down the page
- Panoramix 10y agoMost people probably ran out of time when drawing the carrier
- eterm 10y agoPeople really can't draw hospitals either. Not one of them looks like a real hospital (because what does a hospital look like. You know one if you see one but it's the people not the buildings). The drawings at best look like churches (a building with a cross on top), but most just have giant crosses on the side.
- Kluny 10y agoDisagree - I recognize hospitals by the brutalist architecture and the huge ventilation pipes. http://www.viewroyal.ca/assets/Discover~View~Royal/Photo~Galleries/Scenes~Around~Town/Victoria%20General.jpg http://www.viewroyal.ca/assets/Discover~View~Royal/Photo~Gal... I guess if I was trying to doodle one, I'd do something like this: http://med-fom-emerg.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/06/surrey.jpg http://med-fom-emerg.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2012/06/surrey.j... A carport with ambulances parked in front.
- johnhattan 10y agoYeah, I got the same problem. I drew an aircraft carrier similar to yours. Google guessed "cruise ship" and "submarine" because it was comparing my drawing to drawings of airplanes. https://plus.google.com/+JohnHattan/posts/c6JWMbrFL9b https://plus.google.com/+JohnHattan/posts/c6JWMbrFL9b I'm also amused that one of the aircraft carriers has wheels :)
- anonova 10y agoOne it gave me was "camouflage". I have no idea how to represent that with a simple line drawing.
- blauditore 10y agoI guess the best bet would have been drawing some piece of clothing with the most commonly used camo pattern, sth like: https://www.google.ch/search?q=camouflage+pattern https://www.google.ch/search?q=camouflage+pattern
- logicallee 10y agosame for me. I was given "steak" but the only thing I could thin of is that I need to add a hole like in the cartoons, you know like this: http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/image-files/xcartoon-steak-003.jpg.pagespeed.ic.AGYmiC_0p0.jpg http://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/image-files/xcarto... After I did add the hole, it looked nothing like a steak to me. The only thing I could think of was to put a pan around it. As soon as I started drawing the pan it said, "Oh I know, steak". Makes zero sense to me. Picture of my drawing: http://i.imgur.com/90pcfdH.png http://i.imgur.com/90pcfdH.png Does that look like a steak to you? In no way. Here are the rest of my badly moused submissions if you're interested. I literally had no idea how to draw asparagus. http://i.imgur.com/KT8Vrjw.png http://i.imgur.com/KT8Vrjw.png I was pretty shocked it didn't figure out my pencil. In the last few seconds (I was already done) I started coloring in the eraser but it still didn't get it. ---------------------- EDIT: Just did another one. Shocked it didn't get this!!: http://i.imgur.com/BpdC1rZ.png http://i.imgur.com/BpdC1rZ.png Completely obvious what it is. First I drew the first 3 circles. It didn't get it. I added flashing. Didn't get it. I added a pole. DIdn't get it. Added a car and arrow. Still didn't get it. Everyone else just had in the center of their image, the three circles. Some people included "shining" lines. http://i.imgur.com/91ryOJ0.png http://i.imgur.com/91ryOJ0.png (third from bottom and second from bottom rows.) Obviuosly mine looks a LOT more like a traffic light than these other people's, because I contextualize it!
- abhv 10y agoResearchers are trying to collect data for training. I wonder how many examples they receive and how many are bogus. The microsoft chat experiment from a few months ago shows that people can hack these systems to train them into racist slur-spewers. Similarly, i wonder how this project aims to get accuracy given that many people are going to draw the porno objects no matter what the prompt was to mess with it.
- erelde 10y agoIt didn't recognize my phone drawing, but it was interesting to see other's people drawings of phones, I drew what it called a cell phone. Some drawings were smartphones, other were corded phone with a rotary dial and everything in between.
- franciscop 10y agoJust reminding Google that snakes can eat elephants so please stop confusing them with hats: http://imgur.com/lBtGUKr http://imgur.com/lBtGUKr
- ghgr 10y agoAdult neural networks cannot understand that.
- BobCat 10y agoSpoiler: They're talking about the first page of The Little Prince.
- wiz21c 10y agoI don't know how it sounds exactly for a native English speaker, but saying "adult neural networks" seems to give the intelligence trait to some piece of software. Times are changing...
- macobo 10y agoYou're missing a cultural reference. http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/the-story/ http://www.thelittleprince.com/work/the-story/
- franciscop 10y agoI was going to link the book because I thought it was on the Public Domain, but apparently not in every country [1]. Also, the site you reference seems to be purposely misguiding visitors by omission about the book's licensing status [2]. [1] http://www.communia-association.org/2015/01/23/the-little-prince-almost-in-the-public-domain/ http://www.communia-association.org/2015/01/23/the-little-pr... [2] http://www.thelittleprince.com/licensing/ http://www.thelittleprince.com/licensing/
- dmix 10y agoChapter 1 of The Little Prince from Wikipedia: > The narrator explains that, as a young boy, he once drew a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant in its stomach; however, every adult who saw the picture would mistakenly interpret it as a drawing of a hat. Whenever the narrator would try to correct this confusion, he was ultimately advised to set aside drawing and take up a more practical or mature hobby. The narrator laments the crass materialism of contemporary society and the lack of creative understanding displayed by adults. As noted by the narrator, he could have had a great career as a painter, but this opportunity was crushed by the misunderstanding of the adults.
- regecks 10y agoIt seems like you can draw garbage (e.g. faces/text/swastikas) on the picture in the moments after it correctly identifies the object and before it starts the next object, and it seems to "save" it (though I am not sure if it is persisting it in their training data).
- bartkappenburg 10y agoIt reminds me of what google did to improve their search for images: https://crowdsource.google.com/imagelabeler/category https://crowdsource.google.com/imagelabeler/category The things you draw here is new input for their model.
- spectaclepiece 10y agoI can tell you guys one thing, the training data most certainly didn't include any pictures unsafe for work.
- crphang 10y agoReally fun. The algorithm generates new nouns based on my drawing on the fly and add to the original pool. It stops and say 'Oh I know, it is ___', when there exist a guess that is the same as the answer. Might seem like it is really clever, or, it could have like 1000 guesses for every stroke and one of it is the correct answer. My bathtub looks too ridiculous for it to be able to guess it with confidence.
- geocar 10y agoIs it learning from our drawings? I just drew a bunch of dicks.
- afhammad 10y agoIt says draw a leg, I draw a straight line and before i even finish drawing the line it guesses "leg". Not rigged. And the "toe" I drew could have easily been a finger or thumb but it seemed to be sure it was a toe.
- koliber 10y agoPerhaps it was never trained to see fingers or thumbs. Perhaps it is trained to recognize a couple dozen things. If it never heard of a finger or a thumb, how could it have used it as a guess.
- drdeca 10y agoI got "finger" as a prompt at least twice, so that's one of the things. It didn't recognize the ones I drew though. It expects it to be flat and pointing up with the nail, not bent. Perhaps the toes are drawn facing down?
- wbillingsley 10y agoOk, what foolish people made it think "pants" means trousers... :)
- sthlm 10y agoThis is the best "visualization" / "explanation" of the possibilities and limits of AI that I've seen. I can show this to someone and say: 1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to what it thinks a feather looks like. 2. The software can't recognize a feather if it's never seen a feather like that. It's not a sentient being. This is good, because most examples focus on point #1 and -- if enough marketing is involved -- don't go enough into point #2. People read news articles like "X can recognize cats in a picture with Y certainty!" and are quick to assume that this "AI" can make sense of a picture and understand it, when all it does is apply certain methods for a certain use case. This does a much better job by letting people write (or draw) their own test cases and figure out the limits intuitively.
- nopinsight 10y agoHumans usually can't do your 2. either. In some cases, people may be able to recognize things based on descriptions alone, but those are typically simple combinations of known entities. For recognizing relatively simple entities, are there advantages humans still have over neural nets (assuming the same scope of knowledge)?
- teekert 10y agoDefinitely my 3 y/o can recognize a cat in an abstract drawing of a cat that is unlike any cat he has seen before.
- nopinsight 10y agoHumans are great at learning abstraction from concrete examples. That's also what deep learning does and the big reason for its success as well. I'd guess that some neural nets architecture can do the same with your cat example (perhaps with adaptation). Can any expert weigh in? An idea: We can also run several cat photos through image processing algorithms to filter out details. The output would be outlines similar to the drawings in the Google Quickdraw app. We put those through the app to generalize (perhaps the app needs some training with a few categories of objects, not necessarily animals). Voila! Software can now recognize drawings based on photo examples.
- Grue3 10y agoDidn't recognize lollipop that I drew. It was pretty classic but not in direction it expected (from bottom left to upper right). I added more lines, confusing it even further. You'd think image recognition should work independently of rotation.
- DanBC 10y ago"Draw donut" "Oh I know. It's doubt".
- 0xmohit 10y agoDoesn't even recognize a cup. Amusingly, the one I had drawn looked pretty similar to one of the examples drawn by other people.
- brusch64 10y agoCup didn't work for me too. I had the feeling that it's pretty good too.
- delegate 10y agoIt's been a while since I laughed so much.. My wife now laughs while doodling in the other room :) Impressive!
- koyote 10y agoVery cool! Although I am a bit disappointed by the fact that it did not recognise my amazing whale :( https://i.imgur.com/K5unmKS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/K5unmKS.jpg Especially if you compare it to what it thought a whale should look like: https://i.imgur.com/Dxh1F3c.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Dxh1F3c.jpg I guess this is like everything in AI: bad data in, bad data out.
- oliv__ 10y agoI like how all the whales have a smile.
- drusepth 10y agoYeah, I can't get enough of this. Also, having a touchscreen laptop makes it extra fun. That said, I'm a bit disappointed that it has a lot of trouble recognizing anything outside of "how people normally draw things" (especially if you go out of your way to do more than "the bare minimum", draw things at a different angle, in 3D, etc). [1] Umbrella (wheel, binoculars, pizza): http://i.imgur.com/jr9mexS.png http://i.imgur.com/jr9mexS.png [2] Fork (sword, paintbrush, baseball bat): http://i.imgur.com/3uLIPkH.png http://i.imgur.com/3uLIPkH.png [3] Envelope (phone, eraser, leaf): http://i.imgur.com/pemgKpD.png http://i.imgur.com/pemgKpD.png
- roryisok 10y agoI got suspicious when it asked me to draw camouflage. Nope. Not going to help train the neutral net that will be used to find me when the singularity comes
- gcp 10y agoI suggest you just go planking and it'll think you are the sea.
- roryisok 10y agoor hide inside a snake and it'll think I'm a harmless baseball cap
- robert_tweed 10y agoAnd by drawing nothing, you've provided it with the best possible drawing of camouflage.
- heptathorp 10y ago"draw NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES in under 20 seconds" Nice try, Skynet.
- blauditore 10y agoI can see this soon to be overrun by people trying to mislead it, like what happened to Microsoft's "Tay" on Twitter. Suddenly, ships will be penises and bananas will be Hitler.
- Razengan 10y agoI guess this highlights the flaws inherent in all intelligent systems based on teaching. Misinformation fed to them at an early stage can screw them up pretty much permanently. We've been seeing that since forever with human children raised on doctrines etc. that have no basis in reality.
- michaelmcmillan 10y agoCould they not easily avoid this by using their Google Search images database? They already have a filter for "drawings". Combining that with the title of picture/alt attribute, you could pretty much avoid that scenario.
- wongarsu 10y agoIsn't training neural nets for image recognition using Google's image databases (right now Google Street View) the main purpose of reCAPTCHA?
- mathiasrw 10y agoJust like kids...
- SquareWheel 10y agoOne approach might be to train it on what naughty words look like first, then ignore any future images that match too closely to them. That is what it's supposed to be best at, after all.
- throwanem 10y agoIt does not seem to do this at the moment. When I briefly permitted my utter goober of an inner child to have his way, its top two guesses at the result were "syringe" and "cannon", which...really aren't quite as far off the mark as I'd have expected, I suppose. (No, I won't try a swastika and report back. Immature as I occasionally permit myself to be, I do have some principle and taste.)
- trosi 10y ago> Draw the Mona Lisa in under 20 seconds Seriously?
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- adamors 10y agoIt's easy. http://i.imgur.com/NXfxzSh.png http://i.imgur.com/NXfxzSh.png
- oneeyedpigeon 10y ago"Draw Animal Migration in 20 seconds" And I'm done.
- cm2187 10y agoIs there any way to stop the timer? I don't want to be told what to draw, I want to be able to free form without being interupted every 20sec.
- scandox 10y agoThe best thing about this is drawing out one's most instinctive ideas about an object.
- myf01d 10y agoI drew a dick, and I was disappointed.
- lalalandland 10y agoI found it somewhat hilarious with the tone of the voice guessing my mundane sketches. "Oh, I know, it's toe" :-( LOL
- namaemuta 10y agoI drew a pretty good approach of Charizard as a dragon and it didn't recognize it (in my opinion way closer than the six best results). Edit: wrong pokemon name.
- rubyfan 10y agoOne major annoyance with this. When I get done drawing, I have no idea if something was detected or not. I can't tell if something is supposed to happen or if it's meant to rush me to the next thing. I'm waiting for some feedback or interaction after the drawing.
- cs2818 10y agoInitially it couldn't get any of mine, but then I realized that Privacy Badger was blocking something important, causing it to silently fail. After allowing it through it got most of them.
- gagege 10y agoThat must be what happened to me too. I thought it was just stupid at first, because all of my drawings looked like the examples given at the end.
- petters 10y agoI was supposed to draw "phone," the computer guessed "telephone," but I still failed. :-) Pretty awesome still.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoThe tricky bit with this task is context. For example, my 'spider' sucked big time, and I started trying to draw a web right at the end (before running out of time). This is exactly how I would play 'Pictionary', with plenty of big arrows pointing to the part of the drawing representing the word. However, that really isn't appropriate when trying to train a neural net to recognise abstract images. Similar complexities arise in relation to perspective (should 'bridge' be side-on or top-down?) and even something as obvious as homonyms (I drew 'nail' as the small metal thing you use to hang a picture, but I'm sure others would have drawn the thing at the end of a finger). I guess my point is that this comes across very much as a game (maybe that's all it really is), which will probably give poor 'neural net training' results, as opposed to if it weren't a game - e.g. by increasingly the ridiculously short time limit. I'm sure the results will still be interesting, but I think they'll end up very abstract rather than very accurate - maybe we'll just 'invent' a new set of logograms.
- wongarsu 10y ago>However, that really isn't appropriate when trying to train a neural net to recognise abstract images. Or is it? Beyond the most simple shapes, humans heavily rely on context for image recognition. Maybe a neural net should do the same to be successful.
- oliv__ 10y agoThis is really fun. As a designer/amateur artist, the most interesting part about this to me was seeing other people's drawings/most-basic-concepts-of-a-thing drawn out: which lines they draw, which ones they don't, how they express an idea in the most essential way, basically. (the 20s really helps) It's a great window into how people think about things. As a reference: I couldn't understand why it didn't recognize my keyboard (http://imgur.com/fXk6Gg9 http://imgur.com/fXk6Gg9) but then it hit me hard when I saw other people's drawings (http://imgur.com/J7Lqodw http://imgur.com/J7Lqodw).
- vidarh 10y agoCaveat: I noticed I quickly started adjusting my drawings to exaggerate the most stereotypical features, and resort to stereotypes overall, because they seemed more likely to get recognised. So it is not just how people think about things, but at least in part also how people think other people will have thought about things guided by seeing the examples of other drawings.
- mholmes680 10y agoAlong those lines, I found it interesting that of the request for "guitar", I drew one with arm from top-right to bottom-left. So did 17 others on the results page. 3 were vertical-no-slant, and only one went from top left to bottom right. Did we all see the same picture book growing up? Are most righties drawing it one way and lefties another (to which I would be a counter-example)? the guitar from top-left to bottom-right didn't look wrong at all, but why were most drawing it the other way? Also, no one drew an electric guitar. Shame on us humans. This is fascinating to me more for the human-view than the ML piece...
- ldev 10y agoTried to draw a bear, got teddy-bear as an answer, failed. :/
- eterm 10y agoDisable privacy badger. Without it the app "works" but says it can't guess anything. When it couldn't even guess my envelope I was suspicious and disabled pb. Then found out it "live" guesses as you go!
- realsneil 10y agoThank you for this, it got 0/6 the first time for me, and I'm literally DaVinci on the doodles...
- kevinherron 10y agoWow, that was surprisingly fun. It got 6/6.
- Dowwie 10y agoIs google using the drawings from the game to train the AI further? I assume so.
- gregorkas 10y agoYes, they state it on the website as well: "See how well it does with your drawings and help teach it, just by playing."
- x1798DE 10y agoThis is interesting, because once it recognizes my drawing, it cuts me off before I finish, which would seem like it's adding incomplete drawings to the training set. Maybe it just wants examples of versions that it can't already recognize.
- xigency 10y agoYea, apparently two disconnected spoked-wheels are a bicycle now, based on the drawing it accepted from me.
- catshirt 10y agoit's a training set before it's a game, i'm sure. the fact that they were able to make it fun just makes it a win/win.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoIt asked me to draw mug and guessed coffee cup. Then it asked me to draw coffee cup and guessed mug. Frustrating.
- grandalf 10y agoThis is really fun. It didn't get my calendar drawing, wondering if it would have understood a box with a 31 in it.
- caussatjerome 10y agoGood, Interesting !
- GoToRO 10y ago2 legs: I see mustache. 4 legs: I see sheep. 6 legs: I see spider. 8 legs: Oh, I see. It's an ant!
- speeder 10y agoFor me it failed hard... chrome (the browser I use) kept freezing with 100% CPU use :/ The single time it worked without freezing it nailed correctly what I drew though :) EDIT: tried again performance still bad... but I saw one interesting, it requested me to draw a Knee, and... failed to recognize it. Except after it ended and I went to see other people drawings, mine was identical, but flipped! I guess because I am left-handed or something like that... Still, it is funny that it failed hard to recognize a flipped drawing. As for the explanation: everyone drew a leg, seen from the side, slightly bent (me included). But I drew like this ">" while everyone else drew like this "<" EDIT 2: someone asked me why it is not in portuguese :( also I saw the reply below, I am on a Chrome on OSX right now.
- lucb1e 10y agoWorked fine for me in Firefox on Linux.
- spuz 10y agoI noticed the same thing with regards to orientation. I drew a hammer in a way no human could possible not guess what it was supposed to be but the AI didn't see it. The examples of other people's drawings had hammers all aligned vertically, whereas mine was aligned horizontally. I guess orientation matters to the AI.
- Declanomous 10y agoI drew bread as a loaf from an isometric perspective. It didn't get it. All but one of the other pictures were of a single slice of bread. There was another picture of a loaf of bread, but it was mirrored in relation to mine. Seems like some bit of knowledge should be devoted to whether orientation is important, but the computer doesn't understand that. It seems like this is because most people draw pictures one way initially. It might be helpful to have each person draw a second picture of the same thing.
- thom 10y agoWell, if there's one thing this has taught me, it's that the trackpad on my ThinkPad is absolutely terrible.
- cooper12 10y agoIt taught me that everyone is a better artist than me. As a consolation, I'm using a Macbook Pro touchpad, touted as the best and even it can't compensate for my lack of artistic skill. Not sure if it would be easier with a mouse or not. It'd be really fun to see a post-mortem done where maybe we could see if any artists used their drawing tablets as well as error rates across different devices like tablets.
- repomies691 10y agoQuite lousy detection algorithm if you ask me. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcjqwvxdpb455zu/quick_draw.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcjqwvxdpb455zu/quick_draw.jpg?dl=...
- noja 10y agoPhew! Zero recognised. We are safe.
- picardo 10y agoIt's a neat demo, but it would be a lot neater if it recognized something that I chose to draw rather than something I am told to draw.
- anupshinde 10y agoFor first few minutes, I was testing this neural net. After 10 minutes, this starts influencing me on what I should be drawing. After sometime I start scribbling randomly. Then it says "I see motorbike". And, wow! that was a motorbike. I din't see a motorbike in the drawing until it told me what it resembled. I didn't freak out, but closed the window immediately and told myself - "its a machine, I'm a programmer, I know how NNs work and there's nothing to worry about". The kind of feeling non-techies have when they experience predictive-text for the first time and they they say "it knows what I am thinking"
- mason55 10y agohttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a...
- nkozyra 10y agoNot sure what the training set is like, but it performs poorly on drawings that are clipped at the edge of the screen.
- agumonkey 10y agoHa, this was my first college project, except it was first year OOP and we had no clue about NN. Not even prolog (if I had known combinatorial exploration was alright in some cases .. alas). Fun.
- stirner 10y agoAs someone who is woefully uninformed about ML and CV: in a case like this, is the computer simply given the bitmap/vector graphic and left to learn how to interpret the data as lines and shapes? Or is there some preprocessing done to transform the data into something more "ML-friendly"?
- malux85 10y agoIn Deep Learning, you can feed the raw pixels into the network and it will interpret the data as lines and shapes .. The only preprocessing done is likely size reduction - the QuickDraw canvas is quite high resolution, so it's probably scaled down with (just linear interpolation)
- stirner 10y agoThanks. Come to think of it, I remember seeing a series of deep learning examples that were trained on raw data and were able to create well-formed TeX, XML, and other formats, so it makes sense that the same principle would apply to image data.
- Dinius 10y agoCouldn't recognize anything I drew with keyboard mouse control. Then again, neither can I. http://i.imgur.com/o3LJlPI.png http://i.imgur.com/o3LJlPI.png
- cooper12 10y agoThat diving board is pretty good for twenty seconds. Also with my limited experience using keyboard control, acceleration can mess you up easily.
- shmageggy 10y agoIt does a nice job with invariance to scaling and translation (probably normalized in preprocessing) but it's definitely not invariant to rotation :) http://imgur.com/a/UeXi1 http://imgur.com/a/UeXi1
- long 10y agoWhich is understandable. Certain image categories aren't rotation invariant. Turn the letter M upside down and you get W.
- shmageggy 10y agoI agree that some classes (like M) should exhibit only limited invariance, but the examples here are clearly rotation invariant to us since we can readily recognize them.
- k__ 10y ago1. sun 2. animal migration that escalated quickly...
- neovive 10y agoThis just reminded me how bad I am at Pictionary; I can't blame the AI for more poor doodling skills. It's interesting how the 20 second time limit forces you to focus on broad shapes as opposed to details, which works well for pattern recognition.
- markatkinson 10y agoEither Googles AI has very high drawing standards or I am a terrible artist. It didn't guess ANY of my drawings, and they all looked very similar to the other images :(
- x1798DE 10y agoI had the same thing happen, turns out Privacy Badger blocks some important component in the recognition, so switching to a private window fixes it.
- yincrash 10y agoApparently a phone and a telephone are two different things http://i.imgur.com/HujDN5W.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HujDN5W.jpg
- 0x0dea 10y agoDo you know what year it is?
- throwaway2016a 10y agoIt got all of them for me except "Hexagon" which kind of baffled me. It's a basic shape. (yes, I drew it with the right number of sides)
- drdeca 10y agoMany of the images it showed for what it thought a hexagon is had the wrong number of sides,when I did it. It also didn't get my hexagon.
- anonymid 10y agoMy attempt at "bread" http://imgur.com/a/SMWm9 http://imgur.com/a/SMWm9
- Ygg2 10y agoWTF floor lamp?
- daveheq 10y agoIt seems the answers are pre-programmed because I drew just a car and it said "I know! It's a police car" even though I'd drawn no siren. Also with the sweater drawing I'd drawn just a T-shirt accidentally then when drawing a long sleeve it said it knew it was a sweater when it could have been similar things. So this demonstration isn't about it identifying the drawing correctly, it's just about saying when it's found something considered close enough in an overly-broad range of ambiguous things based on the answer it's been given already. It did identify some partially drawn things, like a line or a circle or more complex things the partial drawing could have been, but the pre-loaded rigging made me stop the test.
- marxidad 10y agoIt's just picking the closest thing from its limited training set.
- zipppy 10y agoI agree and believe that it's pre-programmed in some ways. I took the test twice, and in the first set I had 'zigzag' and in the second set I had 'stairs'. I drew the exact same doodle for each and for each it guessed correctly on its first try.
- OJFord 10y agoNo, I believe it makes a series of guesses ranked for 'closeness'. If what you're supposed to be drawing is ranked 'sufficiently high' the game/training side of it moves on to the next.
- zipppy 10y agoWhat? My point is that I drew the same doodle for different words, and for each word it put forth a different _first_ guess. The first guess for each doodle was the word that was provided -- if this software was completely legitimate, I would think it should have guessed the same word for each (and then moved on to other guesses).
- filoeleven 10y agoThis creeped me out a little when I first started playing it, not because of its accuracy or anything but because of what it asked me to draw. There were lots of innocuous things like [house, teapot, dog, zebra, moustache] but there was also a substantial amount of things like [rifle, aircraft carrier, submarine] that are military-related. I sort of got the feeling that I was helping to train an AI that would later be deployed in combat. I played another ten rounds or so to see what else might come up, and aside from one or two repeats nothing did and I realized I was being silly.
- themodelplumber 10y ago[marshmallow, hotel, ectoplasm] omg, I just trained this thing to bust some ghosts
- komali2 10y agoThis was embarrassing. I'm a terrible artist, I mean, well and truly incapable of drawing, and I think the questions become "easier" to draw the more she gets wrong. So I struggled to convey cello, then church, and finally "circle." Which she almost didn't get.
- vanderZwan 10y agoOTOH, you have a great career in Q&A ahead of you!
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- 6stringmerc 10y agoClever. Gave it a test run. Will play again when I get paid. Mostly because I could do this for quite a while.
- peeters 10y agoNothing like being asked to draw "camouflage" in black and white.
- peeters 10y agoWhat's the reason for stopping you drawing as soon as it guesses it? I mean, it's great you guessed "swing set" from me making a basic a-frame, but wouldn't it give you more data if you let me actually draw the swings?
- cooper12 10y agoYeah it does feel abrupt. My guess is that Google only cares about getting the minimal representation needed to guess at the object, even it's incomplete or missing details.
- flamtap 10y agoSecretly, Google is just trying to make the best Pictionary player ever.
- NTripleOne 10y agoI drew this... not sure if I should feel disappointed that nobody's done it before, or smug that nobody's done it before. http://i.imgur.com/KihrZQD.png http://i.imgur.com/KihrZQD.png I am sorry, my Vs are not very consummate.
- smnplk 10y agoI see a hooker, or knife or fork...
- anonymfus 10y agoIt asks me to draw a bird, guesses "duck" and says sorry that it can not guess it.
- KennyCason 10y agoIt tends to never guess what I draw. :/ I'm not sure if it's because I'm left handed, but I tend to draw everything backwards from all the examples that the bot has seen. I also think that the other examples it's seen are horribly drawn in many cases, making me think perhaps a 1 minute time frame would yield better results. I can't draw anything meaningful in 20 seconds haha.
- cooperadymas 10y agoStrange. Somehow this manages to bypass Chrome's "Mute Tab" and play audio anyway.
- dzink 10y agoLooking at a closest line match doesn't seem to work well, simply by factor of positioning of the drawings. I suspect they need to rotate the recognition objects around their axis, but even then, you're drawing 3d objects and using 2d recognition to detect them. (an airplane looks differently from its side than from its front). I drew a very clear to see pencil horizontally and it matched it to two horizontally drawn airplanes - one of which was supposed to be an aircraft carrier by the description. The existing pencils in its memory were positioned vertically when drawn, so no chance it would match them.
- lanna 10y agoladies and gentlemen, i present you the future of captcha
- bitwize 10y agoIt told me to draw "frog". I drew Kermit. It recognized it.
- alexdumitru 10y agoI managed to guess Mona Lisa. http://i.imgur.com/HjUdIDA.png http://i.imgur.com/HjUdIDA.png
- artursapek 10y agoHow... This must be using a relatively small corpus of terms to guess from.
- alexdumitru 10y agoI have no idea. Here's another weird one: http://i.imgur.com/tESGAGz.png http://i.imgur.com/tESGAGz.png
- anoplus 10y agoComputers are going to so user friendly soon...
- cooper12 10y agoThis is fascinating at looking at how people create abstractions for things. Also funny how sometimes people just give up and write words as that's the best way to label whatever they were given to draw. Lastly I'm surprised at how hard it was for me personally to imagine some of the things given even though I would be able to recognize them in an instant, even from the drawings here.
- stillsut 10y agoIs there an API that does anything like this? As in: Converts primitive doodles into a guess of what it is?
- narutouzumaki 10y agoFunny side note, for some reason, even though the text is in English as it should be it has a distinctly German/Swedish accent to it, really threw me off while drawing haha.
- andrewfong 10y agoI finally feel justified in getting a laptop with a pen.
- lottin 10y ago1 out of 6, complete failure.
- rw 10y agoThis is pulling from a too-small data set. I was able to get correct detections with too little data: In no world is a circle with a bar coming out of it a "dumbbell".
- grimmdude 10y agoI drew these for like 30 minutes straight.
- mikejedw 10y agoFun hack to play along with humans: * In Chrome, open the developer tools, and find the style for "#challengeword-text" (you can hover over the challenge word, hit right-click and then "inspect" to get there). * Set that style to opacity: 0 or something similar. (Be sure it's the #challengeword-text style and not just the element.style) * Then, in your console, type "Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementById('challengetext-word').getElementsByTagName('span')).map((v)=> v.textContent).join('')". You should see the clue word appear after that. * On two screens, show the browser window with the game to other humans, and keep the console on a screen only visible to you. * Keep repeating that JS command in the console to get the word every time the challenge word screen appears (you can just hit up and enter, if you've already typed it.) * And... bam! Now you can do a human vs computer round.
- Cub3 10y agoJust want to point out sharing with twitter popup window is auto blocked by chrome
- scelerat 10y agoEither I can't draw a bear or the AI can't recognize a bear. Probably both.
- ram_rar 10y agoThis is by far the coolest thing, I have seen so far.
- rkv 10y agoWhoever taught this thing what an asparagus is really screwed us all.
- welanes 10y agoPff, couldn't even recognize bread: http://i.imgur.com/kSdiWeP.png http://i.imgur.com/kSdiWeP.png
- anentropic 10y agoEither I can't draw or it doesn't work very well, or probably both But I guess I just provided some more training data...
- MayeulC 10y agoIt asked me to draw an helicopter, then a shovel, and guessed right in both cases. But I noticed that the training dataset was of poor quality: "shovel" drawings were full of helicopters. I also noticed it was very laggy on my phone, making it hard to draw anything before the end of the countdown.
- sac2tahoe 10y agoI see pride! I see power! I see a badass mother who don't take no crap off of nobody!
- camboyero1992 10y agoTruly amazing.
- craftandhustle 10y agoI, for one, am really excited that Google has approached these "experiments" in the manner it has. I'm a designer with a keen eye on new media; so by no means a programmer/developer. For me, it has made machine learning a lot more accessible. Up to this point, I hadn't figured out how to "play" with this technology and now I can. For Quick, Draw specifically, I'm interested in a "search" functionality where I can input a term such as "computer" and see not only the average representation, but more importantly, the fringe. The possibilities for creative brainstorming are tremendous.
- caleb111 10y agothat dud is a hacker
- caleb111 10y agothat dud is a hacker