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QuickDraw

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Definition

Plain language

A Google web game where you doodle something in twenty seconds while an AI tries to guess it.

As stated in the literature

Google's Quick, Draw! game and the resulting open dataset of 2.6 billion crowd-sourced sketches across 344 concepts, filtered to drawings the game's recognizer could classify.

Also called: Quick, Draw!, Quick Draw

Why it matters: It provides a huge, freely available pool of everyday human sketches that researchers can use to study how people visually represent common concepts.

For example, you might be asked to draw a cat in twenty seconds, and the game guesses 'cat' from your rough scribble while adding your doodle to a giant collection.

Heard on the show

“It's a Google game called QuickDraw.”
Episode 209 — How 2.6 Billion Doodles Exposed the Culture Words Quietly Delete

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    How 2.6 Billion Doodles Exposed the Culture Words Quietly Delete