Google releases millions of bad drawings for you (and your AI) to paw through

Back in November, Google showcased a few of its funky machine learning experiments, and among them was Quick, Draw! (their bang, not mine) -- a game where you sketch something and an image recognition system guesses what it is. Now the company is releasing the millions upon millions of sketches players submitted as an open data set for AI developers to play with. Now, if the prospect of browsing through a bunch (I'm talking 50 million here) of terrible drawings of hats, shoes, and cats doesn't sound like fun to you, don't worry. Those drawings came from lots of different countries, and it's fun to check out how differently, say, Germany and Korea think of cats. Well look, there are patterns in there worth sussing out.