Gboard AI May Now Be Able To Read Even Your Doctor's Handwriting

Developers responsible for the machine learning found in Google's Gboard application have created a new machine learning model that may be able to discern even some of the worst handwriting around, based on a recently reported explanation from the company. The AI-driven keyboard mode has improved substantially since its initial launch but the latest changes may be the biggest yet. New revisions to the machine learning behind the handwriting feature enabled by advances in AI have now resulted in new model architectures and training methodologies that allow an improvement of 20- to 40-percent over the previous iteration. The latest method is described in some detail in a new paper published by the company and seems exceptionally complex at first glance but may actually be much more intuitive. It's based on the introduction of recognition for touch points, Bézier curves, and recurrent neural networks (RNN) -- specifically quasi-recurrent neural networks (QRNN).