Want to understand AI? Try sketching a duck for a neural network

Google has released a handful of AI experiments that tap into advances in machine learning in creative ways. They include Quick, Draw!, a game in which an algorithm tries to guess what you're sketching, A.I. Duet, which lets you compose pieces of music with a creative computer, and ways to visualize how neural networks represent information and see the world. The projects show off some new AI features Google has built into an overhauled cloud computing platform. But they also help make AI less mysterious, and hint at ways in which the technology may become more accessible to all of us. Take Quick, Draw!, for example.