Google's AI will turn your crappy doodles into proper pictures

The company has just launched a new tool called AutoDraw, which you can think of as Microsoft Paint but with a hulking synthetic brain beneath its plain-looking interface. The software is in fact based on the technology that underlies Google's previous doodling experiment, Quick, Draw!. With more data in hand, Google's AI now appears able to work as a recommendation tool rather than a game. And Google certainly isn't alone in trying to crack the problem: at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference last month, AI firm Gamalon described how it was developing new ways to identify similar scribbling using less training data than traditional AI approaches.