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It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car".

Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data




I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%.

It would be better if it just said “draw something.”


> of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw

It's a computer. It doesn't know that unless it's explicitly told to remember it.

You can very easily test this by just drawing whatever you want as if it did say "draw something". It's very accurate at guessing any of the objects in the dataset, even if it's not the one you're meant to be drawing.


By telling you what to draw, Googles gets a training set of drawings and their (sanitized) descriptions.




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