Google's AI doodle bot will transform your crude drawings into glorious clip art

Google's latest AI toy may be its most clever: an automated drawing bot that analyzes what you're doodling in real time to suggest a more polished piece of clip art to replace it. Called AutoDraw, the software is another of Google's ongoing creative machine learning demonstrations that it releases as part of its AI Experiments series. It uses the underlying technology behind the company's experimental image recognition software to identify potential objects and pairs that with a database of neat and simplistic hand-drawn images. The company bills AutoDraw as a "drawing tool for the rest of us," and by us it means aesthetically impaired individuals who couldn't doodle themselves out of a paper bag. "AutoDraw pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast," says the narrator in Google's AutoDraw teaser video.