Google's drawing neural net can now finish people's drawings
Google's online drawing AI experiment, Sketch-RNN, is now able to complete people's drawings. The neural network is able to suggest ways to finish a drawing the user has started in one of a number of categories including flowers, cats and other animals. As well as trying to fit its output to the user's work, as the user works on the drawing it gives regular suggestions for the drawing.

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Google Brain, the research side of Google, which had come up with Sketch-RNN, a software that uses a neural network to draw and create images, has added another feather to its hat. Now, the software will autocomplete the image by taking inputs from the user's previous methods of drawing.

Sketch-RNN was first released on 13 April. Initially, Sketch-RNN was used on other AI experiments like Quick Draw! This AI experiment used to give text prompt while creating an image. For instance, if the user wanted to make a cat, the software would give text prompts on what those images could have been. After Quick Draw came Auto draw. It is especially useful when poorly drawn pictures are replaced by better-drawn ones. Sketch-RNN, is a new experiment from Google's AI experiment series.

Through Sketch-RNN, the moment the user starts drawing, the software prompts a number of pictures that can come up to form that image. For instance, if there is a cat, it will give different pictorial representations of the cat. These representations come from already existing images in the software. At the same time, it can create another image from a different one.

The alternative images have their own tweaks which may be slightly different from the other alternatives present. Moreover, Sketch-RNN takes inputs from users and give different outputs. It not only tries to understand the user, it also gives regular prompts that suggest how the user can finish the sketch.