I'm not really understanding the point of this. I can draw something, then it tries to match it to one of it's cookie cutter things that it knows about, and doesn't seem to use my drawing at all in the final map. So is this just a glorified "thing picker", rather than a big dropdown or something?
This site makes absolutely no sense. Why is there no explanation to what I'm supposed to do and to what is happening? It says it's the "world" but I can barely navigate a small little neighbourhood. I thought I'd be able to explore the whole planet with drawings correlated to the location they're made in. Why does it tell me where people are drawing things from when it really means nothing?<p>When I finally got around to drawing something, it didn't work. I drew a relatively simple rectangular building and nothing happened. I realized it must be matching based off of things it already knows so I restarted and drew the simplest 3 line car I could. Still nothing. No error, no instructions. Just a trash can and a circular arrow.<p>This experiment is a failure.
I let my 7 year old play with this; she was able to scribble simple things which were recognized pretty well, actually, and was a fun and useful activity. I think most of HN is not the target audience here, and we are reacting to our assumptions based on the title of the project.
It works completely contrary to what it pretends. There is no creativity and creative collaboration happening here. Everything I draw is turned into a predefined shaped. Everything unique is translated into something generic. I think there is a serious misunderstanding about the value of creativity happening here, and I very much hope this is not the future Google is imagining for us.
Can we all just acknowledge that the "AI" aspect of this is gimmicky and - ignoring that part - Scribblenauts did this way, way better back in like '09?
This AI doesn't seem to recognize my drawing...<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/fwmUEP6" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/fwmUEP6</a>
Amazing idea! Poor execution. I tried to draw something and it basically reduced to an AI doing an object recognition on what I had drawn, then suggesting me the closest matches from its existing database. I clicked on a match, then was able to change TWO parameters describing the object.<p>It would have been much more interesting if you could draw something, then have an AI try to guess what it would look like in 3D, then add your model to their database. People could then upvote/downvote models to get rid of crappy results, and the AI could use that information to learn what models it messed up generating.
> This website is optimized for certain browsers and devices.<p>> Please <i>upgrade</i> your browser.<p>Emphasis mine - I'm on Firefox 63.
I can't believe this is still happening in 2018. :(
Neat idea, but seems to be limited in user choice.<p>Tried to draw a couple of things, it picked the closest match, then got stuck on "Finding a place in the world" for me (why can't I pick?).<p>Also can't seem to draw new things, just pick from the AI guesses, so far as I can tell.<p>I look forward to poking at the next version.
I feel like this essentially exists for the sole purpose of generating a large training set for some sort of drawing analysis.<p>I wonder if google has some new use case where they want to be able to quickly tag human doodles with their subject matter?
Kinda disappointing that the "AI" bit of it is just image recognition.<p>I thought it was going to be a cool demo on changing 2D drawings to 3D objects.
A lot of cynicism in comments. Seems like an innocuous experiment. Cool graphics. Average experience. But built on the web, that's important. Let's not conspiracy theories get the better of us.
It's telling me my browser is unsupported and to use Chrome, but I'm using the latest version on Mac. Anyone else getting this? Works on Safari though.
> World Draw determines what someone is sketching and turns it into a 3D model in WebGL.<p>This appears to be highly misleading at best. It appears to be a fancy classifier for 2D drawings, that matches to a database of predesigned slightly-customizable 3D models. There's no real connection between the drawing and the model.
The graphics are incredibly charming! Would totally play a Sim City / Cities: Skylines etc. type of game with graphics like this and think the drawing controls could be a really nice way of navigating blocks and such on too!
The Draw Things section has no way to finalize the drawing. The only buttons are reset and undo.<p>Also on the world map there's a bunch of bikes that claim to be cars and pickups.<p>Firefox on Windows.
An AI Experiment to “draw the world closer together”? While I appreciate this cool technology, it would look like the gushing technoutopianism of say 2010 is still alive and well inside Google despite social unrest across the world. I don’t want to explicitly criticize their optimism, but maybe they should have used a more restrained statement to describe their app?
Not sure why, but this <i>crawls</i> on Safari, (2013 MBP, 16GB RAM) and demands I update either Chrome or Firefox before it will run, and I generally avoid running the newest version of anything unless completely necessary.<p>Safari gives me about 4FPS, with nothing else open.
I'm guessing the suggested items are the ones hard to differ. Analytics and explanation of patterns to the machine if you ask me.<p>They just keep pushing out stuff for the same reason on and on
You know those joke UI exercises of "the most terrible way to implement a volume slider" or whatnot? This is basically that.<p>In order to pick a tree prefab, please draw a tree.
Slightly the lot of changes regularly impacting the world like technology day by day change, some predictions for the near-future of artificial intelligence.
> This website is optimized for certain browsers and devices.
Please upgrade your browser.<p>... which? Getting this with Chrome 70.0.3538.102 on Mac.
I tried to draw a church but it didn't recognise it.<p>This is no more advanced, and waaay less useful than this: <a href="http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html" rel="nofollow">http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html</a> (which is at least 10 years old at this point).