Google's latest AI experiment lets software autocomplete your doodles

Google Brain, the search giant's internal artificial intelligence division, has been making substantial progress on computer vision techniques that let software parse the contents of hand-drawn images and then recreate those drawings on the fly. The latest release from the division's AI experiments series is a new web app that lets you collaborate with a neural network to draw doodles of everyday objects. The software is called Sketch-RNN, and Google researchers first announced it back in April. At the time, the team behind Sketch-RNN revealed that the underlying neural net is being continuously trained using human-made doodles sourced from a different AI experiment first released back in November called Quick, Draw! That program asked human users to draw various simple objects from a text prompt, while the software attempted to guess what it was every step of the way.