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I assume this is picking from a predefined set of things? As in not all nouns, but a smaller list of possibilities. Otherwise it is pretty impressive that it we

I assume this is picking from a predefined set of things? As in not all nouns, but a smaller list of possibilities. Otherwise it is pretty impressive that it went 6 for 6 with my terrible drawing abilities.

Edd314159 6y ago
It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car". Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data
- ryandrake 6y ago
  I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%. It would be better if it just said “draw something.”
  - sellyme 6y ago
    > of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw It's a computer. It doesn't know that unless it's explicitly told to remember it. You can very easily test this by just drawing whatever you want as if it did say "draw something". It's very accurate at guessing any of the objects in the dataset, even if it's not the one you're meant to be drawing.
  - wendelscardua 6y ago
    By telling you what to draw, Googles gets a training set of drawings and their (sanitized) descriptions.
magicroot75 6y ago
It'd be cool if the learning set was built on humans coming up with challenges and then strangers drawing them, and then them being guess by a third person, and then validated by the challenger as true/false.

Edd314159 6y ago

It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car". Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

ryandrake 6y ago
I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%. It would be better if it just said “draw something.”
- sellyme 6y ago
  > of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw It's a computer. It doesn't know that unless it's explicitly told to remember it. You can very easily test this by just drawing whatever you want as if it did say "draw something". It's very accurate at guessing any of the objects in the dataset, even if it's not the one you're meant to be drawing.
- wendelscardua 6y ago
  By telling you what to draw, Googles gets a training set of drawings and their (sanitized) descriptions.

magicroot75 6y ago

It'd be cool if the learning set was built on humans coming up with challenges and then strangers drawing them, and then them being guess by a third person, and then validated by the challenger as true/false.