“猜画小歌”走红，是时候展现你的脑洞和画功了丨Google launches AI-driven game on WeChat
Google has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) game on China's dominant social media app WeChat as a way of re-entering the country's consumer market.
The game, named "Caihua Xiaoge", which roughly translates as "Guess my drawing", is a drawing game based on Google's AI image recognition technology and is a WeChat "mini-program", which works only within the app.
The game is similar to the web-based Quick Draw that Google launched in 2016. Since then, over 15 million people have played the game.
How to play the game
In the game, users will be asked to draw an object, such as a rabbit, a squirrel or a hurricane, within 20 seconds based on the instruction.
The AI will guess what it is during the drawing, and will say something like "What the hell are you drawing?" and "I guess you are just doodling" if it finds the object difficult to identify.
The artificial intelligence-powered drawing game, launched on Wednesday, dominated the WeChat social media platform in its first 24 hours, being widely shared by some of its 1 billion users, though figures were not available.
The game has raised hot discussion in China, and enthusiastic netizens are posting their drawings on social media platforms.
Hot discussion online
"Shocked." a netizen commented on Weibo, regarding the AI's successful guess of the "Eiffel Tower" he drew, which was as simple as two curved lines.
While some players are fascinated by the accuracy of the technology, some are complaining that the system couldn't recognize their masterpieces.
"My drawing is so precise, how could it fail to guess?" a netizen said, along with a picture of an obvious helicopter she drew.
The game is meant to give people "the opportunity to experience just how natural AI-powered interactions can now be," Chris Tam, Google product manager, said in a blog post.
How does AI learn from you
The game tasks users to draw an object that Google's neural network — a collection of computer algorithms that learn tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data — attempts to recognize, and users win points when the machine makes a successful guess.
Google AI's neural network is based upon the world's biggest sketch database with over 50 million drawings, according to a post on Google's official WeChat account on Wednesday.
The experiment uses some of the same technology that helps Google Translate recognize handwriting. The more you play, the more the AI will learn, and the better it'll get at guessing.
Wu Tong, who works at a digital marketing firm in Beijing, is excited to be part of the experiment. "It's like raising a kid," Wu told Sixth Tone. "In the future, when robots exterminate humanity, they'll be like: 'Thanks for raising me.'"
However, the technology hasn't impressed everyone. "Sometimes it's artificial intelligence, but sometimes it's artificial stupidity," Zhang Jizhou, a pharmacist from the eastern province of Fujian, told Sixth Tone. He stopped playing after the AI failed to guess some of his drawings.
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The mini-program is seen as one of Google's deployments of AI in China. Last year, the search engine giant announced its plan of building Asia's first AI center in the country.
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Sources: CGTN, South China Morning Post, Sixth Tone
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