The tech company is unleashing its neural network to make your sketches and doodles prettier. But how does it go with Picasso?<\/b>
Turns out Google is a better artist than you.
The company has unveiled a new web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw , which will turn your terrible Microsoft Paint skills into actual pictures.
Just scrawl something on your phone screen with your finger (or on your desktop with a mouse) and Google’s machine learning will detect what you’re trying to draw, and fix it up for you.
But we’re forgetting the big question: Does a neural network really understand modern art?
The writer’s impression (and Google’s later rendition) of Miro’s \u00ab\u00a0The Birth of Day\u00a0\u00bb.
Apparently Miro is a no-go.
But what if we feed it something even simpler? Say, the ultra minimalist animal sketches of sometime doodler, Pablo Picasso?
Google understands Picasso’s animal sketches better than all of us.
Google knows a parrot when it sees one.
But apparently Google doesn’t like camels.
Apparently even the smartest machines have their limits. A single-line drawing on a smartphone, copying one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century — excuse the pun, but that’s where Google draws the line.<\/p>\n