Unless you just so happen to reside in southeastern England, you probably don't think too much about what the police in Kent are up to--not to mention the rozzers assigned to the humble town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Recently, though, the tiny municipality's law enforcement has earned a fair amount of international attention thanks to its bizarre, perhaps overcomputerized attempts to pursue some petty criminals. On April 11, a 90-year-old Tunbridge Wells resident heard an intruder prancing about his house and went upstairs to confront the stranger, who pretended to be a cop and then fled the premises. Actual police in the area responded to the senior's complaint and took down a standard description of this wannabe thief: The man is described as white and around five feet five inches tall, with an average build and short dark hair. He is thought to be in his 30s and may have a front tooth missing at the top.

Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings as an open-source project other developers will be able to create new, richer experiences. The Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team originally released a web-based version of the tool in 2021. It asks users to upload a drawing of a single human-like character or to select a demo figure. If you use your own doodle, you'll see a consent form that asks if Meta can use your drawing to help train its models.

Most Google Doodles revolve around art that transforms the iconic search engine's logo to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues, like recent ones that shone a spotlight on Route 66 and Teacher Appreciation Day. But a few times each year, the Google Doodle team goes one step further and cranks out some high-quality games that take the drawings to another level. Usually these games are meant to last anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes, though some last even an hour or more. In no particular order, here are some of the best Google Doodle games you can still play. Pac-Man is a timeless classic, so it only makes sense to kick off our list with this world-famous 1980s' arcade game.

I tried Animated Drawings with a doodle of my own -- I draw like a child anyway -- and it worked: the tool correctly identified the character and its joints (although I had the option to tweak the rigging manually). Twenty seconds after I'd uploaded it, my doodle was hopping and moonwalking with abandon. This breakthrough has implications for automated animation of other things -- after all, abstraction is not restricted to children, as many great animated films demonstrate. The Meta AI team certainly sees more possibilities ahead: "By teaching AI to work effectively with this quintessential human form of creativity, we hope this project will move us closer to building AI that can understand the world from a human point of view." Animation is becoming increasingly important to Meta, which is positioning itself as a flagbearer for the metaverse.

NVIDIA's GauGAN2 artificial intelligence (AI) can now use simple written phrases to generate a fitting photorealistic image. The deep-learning model is able to craft different scenes in just three or four words. GauGAN is NVIDIA's AI program that was used to turn simple doodles into photorealistic masterpieces in 2019, a technology that was eventually turned into the NVIDIA Canvas app earlier this year. Now NVIDIA has advanced the AI even further to where it only needs a brief description in order to generate a "photo." NVIDIA says that the deep learning model behind GauGAH allows anyone to make beautiful scenes, and now it's even easier than it ever has been.

A few times each year, the Google Doodle team cranks out some high-quality games to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues. Usually these games are meant to last anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes, though some last even an hour or more. In no particular order, here are some of the best Google Doodle games you can still play. Pac-Man is a timeless classic, so it only makes sense to kick off our list with this world-famous 1980s' arcade game. On May 21, 2010, Google released this fun Doodle to celebrate Pac-Man's 30th anniversary.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will one day integrate into human lives. While some of us are worried this form of technology will take over many jobs, it's also being used to enhance currently existing technology. But for those of you that still don't understand the potential of what AI can do, here are some tools and games you can try on your web browser. Sometimes when you're playing the piano, you might wish that you could perform a duet with someone else, only to realize that the people around you are tone deaf and should never touch a musical instrument. The good news is there's a program called A.I. Duet that can listen to the notes you're playing and try to follow up with its own tunes. It works best when you're playing a real song and not just some random notes.

You can draw crude dicks like you did in your middle school notebooks, only this time you'll help feed an AI. Reddit user and researcher RichardRNN (get it?) The researcher apparently fed the RNN about 10,000 penile doodles in order to get it up and running, and now it can draw penises of all different sizes and even include pubic hair. For one, drawing dicks is fun, but the researcher broke down the reasoning behind DickRNN on its Github page. Two years ago, Google open-sourced its Quick, Draw! data set, advertised as the world's largest doodling data set.

Try it out: Christopher Hesse provided the live TensorFlow demonstration for pix2pix. You can "translate" your doodles of cats, facades, and other things into "photo-realistic" images. It was surely way more than just funny sketch translation: with pre-defined settings, you can transform an aerial photo to a map, a daylight photo to a night view etc. Conditional Adversarial Networks detect the patterns and translate them to the demanded topics (you have to define your target image task). Networks are trained on specific labeled image datasets. NVidia brought this method to another level with GauGAN -- one of the experiments in their AI Playground. You can drive sketches using segmentation: every color is applied to a specific object or material.

When Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were headed to Nevada's Burning Man festival in August of 1998, they wanted users and employees to know they wouldn't be at the search engine's helm for a while. The Ph.D. students at Stanford University decided to replace the second'O' in Google's homepage logo with a stick figure resembling the festival's logo. "It was a little bit of a joke," Jessica Yu, the Google Doodle team lead, tells TIME. "It has definitely evolved a lot since then." What began as a joke became Google Doodles that celebrate and honor holidays, people and issues worldwide, now an important venture for the tech giant.