{"id":338083,"date":"2017-04-12T02:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1475528"},"modified":"2017-04-12T02:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T18:55:49","slug":"googles-autodraw-uses-machine-learning-to-help-you-draw-like-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-autodraw-uses-machine-learning-to-help-you-draw-like-a-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AutoDraw uses machine learning to help you draw like a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drawing isn\u2019t for everyone. I, for one, am definitely not very good at it. But with AutoDraw<\/a>, Google is launching<\/a> a new experiment today that uses machine learning algorithms to match your doodles up with professional drawings to make you look like you know what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

You can use AutoDraw on your phone or desktop and the experience is pretty straightforward. You simply start drawing your best version of a pizza, or house, or\u00a0dog, or birthday cake and the algorithms try to figure out what it is that you\u2019re trying to draw. It then tries to match your squiggles with drawings in its database, and if it finds any possible matches, it\u2019ll show them in a list at the top of your virtual canvas. If you like one of those options, you simply click on it and AutoDraw replaces your amateurish creation with something a bit slicker.<\/p>\n

Artists who want to donate their drawings to the project can do that here<\/a>, by the way.<\/p>\n

This project actually uses the same technology as Google\u2019s QuickDraw experiment<\/a>.\u00a0QuickDraw is more of a game, though, where you\u2019re trying to draw a given object and hope that the A.I. algorithms recognize it within 20 seconds. With AutoDraw, you get\u00a0more freedom to experiment and while you could read all about it here, it\u2019s probably best you head over to AutoDraw.com<\/a> and give it a try.<\/p>\n