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Re: A.I. Experiments

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Post by eyqs »

ythn wrote: post #17
Florin_Andrei wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like that drawing satisfies both criteria. (shrug)

So it's not really "guessing", it's just seeing if my drawing matches a predetermined bank of answers? Makes sense, since one time it asked me to draw a "police car" and before I had even finished drawing the chassis of a normal car it had already guessed "police car" and moved on.

I'd say it's "guessing" from a predetermined (rather small) bank of answers, since the same guesses appear over and over again.

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Post by imh »

I don't know what the drum machine one is doing, but my computer can't keep up. It can't even keep time because of the lag.

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Post by Reedx »

Interesting. Quick Draw is similar to a game I made called Drawception (https://drawception.com). Which is basically the telephone game meets Pictionary with a 10 minute drawing limit that you play with random players.

I've often wondered at what point an AI would be able to play the game in a convincing way. Looks like things are getting closer!

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Post by wanda »

It's so interesting to see how these random Google websites differ. For instance, this website has been made with Bootstrap and jQuery. Weird choice already given the internal tools they have at their disposal.

Weirder still, the grid of videos doesn't use the Bootstrap grid at all. The elements are set to display: inline-block and then their width (and height, which we'll get to) is adjusted every time the window resizes using JavaScript.

This is presumably to maintain square blocks, because that's the design they've opted for and grid systems do not give you much control over height of the grid cells.

But using JavaScript to try and ensure squareness of grid cells is totally unnecessary. You just need CSS, as I shall demonstrate:

http://codepen.io/amdouglas/pen/eBddBd

http://codepen.io/amdouglas/full/eBddBd

Sometimes JavaScript is the best tool, especially in terms of accessibility; in this case, it adds nothing, only an expensive event handler. The resize event is really an awful way of achieving responsive web design. Media queries are the best option in 99% of cases.

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Returning to the original thought, Google seems to have very different teams working here and there on their various marketing websites.

If you look at gv.com, their site also uses jQuery (with Slick and Velocity plugins).

If you look at duo.google.com and allo.google.com, they're Angular sites — which is what you'd expect from Google. A lot of their websites are based on Angular, it's a framework they're invested in (along with Polymer) and so on.

More recently, some of their marketing sites are being made with MDL. Usually small, less significant ones, not for apps but for random initiatives and projects that few people are going to look at. Which seems rather telling.

Polymer is in use, but seems to be reserved for applications like Youtube Gaming or Play Music. I think the Google PDF Reader is Polymer-based was well. That makes sense, Polymer is barely supported in browsers other than Chrome without a hefty bunch of polyfills.

There's also the Closure JavaScript libraries/tools, which Google used to use a lot for things like GMail (blog.google is the most recent instance I think).

For some reason, I find it odd that they don't have a unified internal toolkit for this sort of work. I'm not actually critical of this fact, I'm no critic of pragmatism. I'm just surprised.

I wonder though: does this indicate that these sites were outsourced to an agency?

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Post by kringldt »

dtnewman wrote: post #3

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/quick-draw.. . this is just too cool. Basically, you draw a picture and see it guess what you are drawing. Worth 2 minutes of your time!

That link has 2 periods at the end

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Post by halfdanj »

eyqs wrote: post #21
ythn wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's not really "guessing", it's just seeing if my drawing matches a predetermined bank of answers? Makes sense, since one time it asked me to draw a "police car" and before I had even finished drawing the chassis of a normal car it had already guessed "police car" and moved on.

I'd say it's "guessing" from a predetermined (rather small) bank of answers, since the same guesses appear over and over again.

it's correct that we have "only" trained it on a couple of hundreds of classes, so it will only guess from that dataset.

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Post by halfdanj »

ythn wrote: post #14
jedberg wrote: post #10

It asked me to draw a tree. I drew a palm tree. It said "palm tree" on the bottom, but then said it failed. I drew the palm tree because I've studied AI and that's a classic AI mistake. If you go to Hawaii and ask students to draw a tree, almost all of them will draw a palm tree. Ask them to draw a bird and it looks like a parrot (instead of the robin you see typically in the "lower 48"). It's interesting that this s…

It seems biased. When it said draw the moon, I drew a circle with a smaller crater shaped circle inside it, and it immediately guessed "the moon". Later when it asked me to draw a cookie, I drew the same exact shape (circle with smaller circle) and it immediately guessed cookie, not moon. What's going on?

The classifier is returning a set of confidence scores, so if the shape you drew probably had a high confidence of both cookie and moon. (in fact if you draw it, and click on it in the endgame screen you can see some details what it saw in the image). We are not hinting the classifier what your task is, so we try not to bias the classifier. Jonas (developer behind quick draw)
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