This Google experiment wants artificial intelligence to help you draw

A new experiment from Google is looking to help you sketch images faster and more accurately with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The software is called Sketch-RNN, and it's baked into a straightforward web app. The idea is simple: Select one of the pre-existing objects, start drawing, and the software will try and guess the best way to automatically complete it. Sketch-RNN's artificial mind is trained on a neural network fed with thousands of human-drawn doodles, like the ones found in past Google Brain efforts such as AutoDraw and Quick, Draw!. In a blog post published earlier this year, Google said that the ultimate goal of these AI efforts specific to computer vision is to train machines to identify and recreate objects with an accuracy that mimics human thinking as closely as possible; in this case, the way we draw and connect lines and shapes when trying to sketch an image of a given object.