Here's a closer look at what makes 'Quick, Draw!' work:Īs the video explains, the computer pays attention not only to what you're drawing, but also to how you draw it. 'Quick, Draw!' recognizes your drawings in the same way. The game relies on a lot of the same technology that's behind Google Translate, the search engine's online language translator, according to a video explainer by the creators of 'Quick, Draw!' In Google Translate, the tool uses your handwriting to guess what words or characters you're trying to draw before it translates them into the desired language.

While it may seem like the computer is just shouting out random objects, thanks to machine learning, there are algorithms that help it figure out the object you're drawing. Even as you're drawing, the computer will guess out loud what it thinks you're drawing until it's sure: 'Oh, I know, it's duck!' Pretty cool, right? You only have 20 seconds to draw each object, which seems like a daunting, heart-thumping task - but it's actually not that bad. The prompts are simple objects that most people have encountered before in their everyday lives, such as duck, watermelon, and radio. To play the game, head over to the 'Quick, Draw!' site, where you'll be given six different prompts, one after another. 'Quick, Draw!' is by no means the first AI experiment that Google has undertaken, but it's definitely one of the more fun projects currently available for people to explore. I'm not much of a sketcher or drawer, but 'Quick, Draw!' is definitely inspiring me to bring out my inner artist.

How Google 'Quick, Draw!' works is pretty fascinating the Pictionary-like game relies on machine learning to guess what it is you're drawing.

Now, the tech giant has released a new artificial intelligence (AI) experiment called 'Quick, Draw!' that anyone can play. Google is known for being at the forefront of technological innovation, from its daily animated doodles to its virtual reality headset, Google Cardboard.

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