Explore Quick, Draw!

To better understand how AI can learn, check out Quick Draw, a game that prompts you to draw random objects.

Then, it uses AI to guess what you're drawing.

The AI doesn't know what the game prompts users to draw.

In this video, you'll play a round of Quick Draw and then think about the results.

To begin, in a new tab, navigate to "quickdraw.withgoogle.com." Or click the link to Quick Draw in your document.

Once you click "Let's Draw," you'll be asked to draw different items, like a hockey stick or a feather, as fast as you can.

Quick Draw will tell you what it thinks your drawings are.

[QuickDraw Voice] "I see street light.

Oh, I know, it's stairs." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see rainbow, [QuickDraw Voice] "or circle, or moon, or potato, or pond." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see pool.

Oh, I know it's donut." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see line, or ocean, or eraser, or pillow." [QuickDraw Voice] "Oh I know, it's tent." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see line, or nose, or socks, or string bean, or the Eiffel Tower." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see peanut.

Oh, I know, it's tree." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see line, [QuickDraw Voice] "I see string bean, or water slide, or pencil." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see magic wand." [QuickDraw Voice] "Or marker, or paint brush, or asparagus." [QuickDraw Voice] "Sorry, I couldn't guess it." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see line, or ocean, or canoe, or pool, or hot tub." [QuickDraw Voice] "I see hockey puck, or bath tub." [QuickDraw Voice] "Sorry, I couldn't guess it." At the end of your round, Quick Draw provides a summary of what it guessed and didn't guess correctly.

Click on any of the drawings in the summary to see what it thought the object you drew was, based on how other people drew it.

Then, return to the summary page.

How does Quick Draw guess what you're drawing, sometimes even better than a human would?

Over 15 million people have contributed drawings to Quick Draw, and it looks at all these drawings to learn how humans draw each object.

Here, you can see over a 100 000 bicycles that people have drawn for Quick Draw.

It looks for patterns to learn what a bicycle looks like.

Do you see any patterns in these drawings?

For example, Quick Draw might notice that two circles connected by a line or two is a common way to draw a bicycle.

In Quick Draw, when you draw an object like a bicycle, you're creating a brand new drawing that the AI has never seen before.

But it guesses it's a bicycle because it's seen many different examples that it can compare to your drawing.

At the same time, Quick Draw doesn’t have common sense or understand what any of these objects are or what they are used for.

Quick Draw only knows a few hundred objects chosen by programmers and will only guess those objects.

For example, it knows dogs and cats because it has been taught what they look like, but it will never guess a fox because it hasn't been taught what foxes look like.

Now that you've explored a round of Quick Draw, think about these questions: What did Quick Draw guess correctly?

What did Quick Draw guess incorrectly?

And why do you think Quick Draw guessed some things correctly and some things incorrectly?

Type your answers in the first section of the document you created in the last video.

Now, it's your turn: Navigate to "quickdraw.withgoogle.com" or click the link in your document, see if Quick Draw can guess what you draw, review your results on the "Well drawn!" page, and type your answers to the questions in your document.