New Google Project Lets You Collaborate On Doodles With A Neural Network (tensorflow.org)

Long-time Slashdot reader Giant Robot writes: Google Brain's latest experiment is a neural network that allows you to collaboratively draw with it inside of your web browser in real-time. The neural network is trained using the drawings collected from an earlier web game called Quick, Draw! released a few months earlier.
"Once you stop doodling, the neural network takes over and attempts to guess the rest of your doodle," explains Google's page about the project, adding "You can take over drawing again and continue where you left off."

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This must be exciting to somebody

[AlanObject]

OK I tried it and I was not exactly whelmed. Forty years ago I was playing with predictive pattern matching models in an attempt to create a Go player. Although the basic idea worked it took too much expensive computer storage (CDC 7600) to actually play a game on a 9x9 board in real time. (The processor was actually fast enough.)

This exercise is pretty much the same but this software has the benefit of lots of cheap processor cycles and storage space. (I'll spare you the numeric equivalent calculations from the 7600 to modern hardware.) And instead of winning combinations it just guesses stuff with a wide range of possible positive feedback responses.

We will see if Alphabet's infinite money supply can make something out of this. Personally I just don't see much but I have been wrong on the "vision" thing before.