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April 12, 2017 3:09 AM

Google’s latest AI toy may be its most clever: an automated drawing bot that analyzes what you’re doodling in real time to suggest a more polished piece of clip art to replace it. (via)
posted by lmfsilva (30 comments total)

It did not recognize my drawing of a penis with spunk coming out of it. Not impressed.
posted by leibniz at 3:18 AM on April 12, 2017 [13 favorites]

Here's my drawing (shut up, it's not easy to draw with a mouse, okay?). Autodraw suggests it's either a frog, a polar bear, a bird, or a koala. Apparently my drawing resembles a fairly impressive array of animal classes! *preen* :P
posted by taz at 3:36 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

Google thought my Dalek was the Eiffel Tower!
posted by JtJ at 3:39 AM on April 12, 2017

Is there name for the tendency for people (well, mainly men boys I guess) to, when given a blank canvas for drawing, instinctively draw a cock?

Google thought my Dalek was the Eiffel Tower!

"Eiffel Tower turns out to be a giant Dalek" sounds like a legit Dr Who plot.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 3:42 AM on April 12, 2017 [20 favorites]

Is there name for the tendency for people (well, mainly men boys I guess) to, when given a blank canvas for drawing, instinctively draw a cock?

Not that I know of, but in video game development you have the term TTP - Time To Penis. Basically, how long will it take before a user manages to create penis in your game.
posted by Nea Imagista at 3:52 AM on April 12, 2017 [9 favorites]

On the duck/rabbit it definitely skews duck (or fish or crocodile or hand)
posted by Segundus at 3:52 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

Is there name for the tendency for people (well, mainly men boys I guess) to, when given a blank canvas for drawing, instinctively draw a cock?

Every girl I grew up with did this. As do the women I live with now, come to think of it. Ours is childish home.

Boys? Boys draw boobs. Because boobs.
posted by rokusan at 4:33 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

It thought my cat was a kangaroo :(
posted by Samarium at 4:42 AM on April 12, 2017

I misunderstood the assignment and thought it'd come up with a GIS, not clip-art. Imagine my disappointment as I drew Philip J. Fry and Google would not Shut Up and Take My Money.
posted by explosion at 4:54 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

It took my bull drawing, and gave me a cow with horns. And an udder. Which I didn't draw, I hasten to add.
posted by YAMWAK at 4:56 AM on April 12, 2017

Not that I know of, but in video game development you have the term TTP - Time To Penis

Probably TTDB now, also
posted by thelonius at 5:20 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

So, today i learned there's no clipart for penises.
posted by _Synesthesia_ at 5:51 AM on April 12, 2017

Y? Y U NOT UNDERSTAND MY ROCKET?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:32 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

I drew a super kawaii bunny head and it suggested a cat and also a cactus, and honestly I can't argue with it.
posted by FirstMateKate at 6:33 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm a big fan of David Friedman's dragon.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:53 AM on April 12, 2017 [7 favorites]

I started drawing arbitrary lines with no particular goal, and it suggested a horse, and I looked at what I had drawn and realized, "Holy crap, that is a horse!" Kind of a Lascaux-cave-painting-style horse, very abstract. Pretty fun.
posted by biogeo at 7:08 AM on April 12, 2017 [5 favorites]

I drew a hypercube and my monitor disappeared.
posted by skyscraper at 7:12 AM on April 12, 2017 [3 favorites]

I tried drawing a hammer three different ways and it guessed a fork each time. Or a sleeping bag. Got a sailboat quite quickly.

Thanks for posting!
posted by skyscraper at 7:46 AM on April 12, 2017

I call foul. I started drawing something that looked JUST LIKE BART and at no point did it suggest a picture of Bart.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:19 AM on April 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

I drew a fox and it thought it was a lobster, which is in the animal kingdom and closer than most people can generally guess given my drawing skills, so well done.
posted by Wolfdog at 8:54 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

I'm a big fan of David Friedman's dragon.

I had no idea that dragons had strong feelings about Mondays and lasagna.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:17 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

It keeps thinking my t-rexes are giraffes. Or dragons. Or birds. So close and yet so far.
posted by Hactar at 10:39 AM on April 12, 2017

Y? Y U NOT UNDERSTAND MY ROCKET?

Ha. I tried and failed to get it to recognize a bow and arrow. Then just tried an arrow, and was surprised that I couldn't get it to recognize even the most basic drawing of an arrow. I hadn't considered it might be a TTP problem.
posted by straight at 11:30 AM on April 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

To test my skills of an artist, I tried drawing Trogdor. I drew an 'S' for snake...or dragon, er whatever...and then a more different 'S'.

AutoDraw guessed: "Moon? Ear?"

I closed it up real good at the top for his head.

"Bird? Snake?"

Using consummate 'V's I gave him teeth, spinities, and angry eyebrows.

"Frog? Wiener Dog? Koala Bear?"

Wings, y'know, 'cause he's a...wing-a-ling dragon.

"A dove?"

And then a beefy arm for good measure.

"Dragon!"
posted by straight at 12:01 PM on April 12, 2017 [5 favorites]

Does anyone know if there's a library of that clip art by chance?
posted by holmesian at 12:11 PM on April 12, 2017

I drew the Western Hemisphere. Google thinks it's a bear, or maybe a cow.
posted by zompist at 2:48 PM on April 12, 2017

If you drew it sideways, Google would think it was a duck.
posted by Greg_Ace at 3:23 PM on April 12, 2017

It thinks a bunch of diagonal crossharching is either a loaf of French bread or an aircraft carrier. Very silly.
posted by Confess, Fletch at 6:56 PM on April 12, 2017

Me: (draws a vertical line)
Google Autodraw: Did you mean, (three different pictures of horizontal lines)?

Autodraw clearly has the same personality as Google's search suggestion engine.
posted by biogeo at 10:23 PM on April 12, 2017

It said I was drawing a dove.
It was dignity! Gahh! Doesn't it even know dignity when it sees it?
posted by spheniscus at 11:37 PM on April 14, 2017