Google Brain, the search giant’s internal artificial intelligence division, has been making substantial progress on computer vision techniques that let software parse the contents of hand-drawn images and then recreate those drawings on the fly. The latest release from the division’s AI experiments series is a new web app that lets you collaborate with a neural network to draw doodles of everyday objects. Start with any shape, and the software will then auto-complete the drawing to the best of its ability using predictions and its past experience digesting millions of user-generated examples.

The software is called Sketch-RNN, and Google researchers first announced it…

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