Nail as in fingernail or toenail, but also as in nail/hammer. I don’t know why they chose that word because it has multiple meanings. A reminder that fluency in a language and familiarity with a culture are never identical to living that culture and being native to the language. Also, when I mentioned the term camouflage to an American yday she started saying it had an uncomfortable negative connotation for her and so obviously I understood she made an immediate connection to military. And to get it right, for the AI to understand me, I have to think like an American. Apparently, the connotation for Americans is army uniforms intended for the same purpose. First of all, because connotation of camouflage for me is just how butterflies or chameleons blend with their background so their predators or enemies can’t see them. So this is either a sign that the AI learns across languages… Or that Arabs doodle angels that look like Westerner angels because they don’t have their own imagery for angels. I don’t know what they look like because we’re not supposed to depict them. The reeally weird thing is that in Muslim culture (which is dominant among Arabic speakers), angels don’t look like this at all. Even in the Arabic version (even though it says I’m wrong in the image I inserted earlier, because see #2). I think it connects across cultures because…
If it learns each language on its own… Or if it starts to connect across cultures. I’m gonna keep playing and see if the Arabic version expects a crescent.
You know in Israel they use a David’s star and in Muslim countries we use a red crescent, right? But the majority of data this neural network is seeing comes from Christian-culture countries. A key aspect of what identifies a church or ambulance is a cross sign. Do they not know that very few people in the Arab world (much of the world?) play baseball? Rolling eyes I cannot believe the French and Arabic versions ask for baseball as one of the key terms. However, the weird thing is that the Arabic version, even if you get one right (as in, Google’s AI recognized it as similar to what it learned), when you click later to see details, tells you Google’s AI didn’t understand your drawing. Not so pleasantly realizing you have to read the word Arabic in Latin alphabet to open the Arabic version and at way bottom of the screen not top. I was pleasantly surprised to find the game available in many languages including French and Arabic.
In a time of gun violence in the US causing so much tragic death in schools, and the ugly history of the West and what they did to native Americans. But as soon as I mentioned this to hubby he asked me, “You know what it means, right?” and I suddenly realized it meant someone (cowboy I guess) who draws his gun quickly. I originally didn’t think much of it, remembering a cartoon I once saw of a Western (mouse? Horse?) character called Quickdraw McGraw. Here are the main issues I have with this game (they’re not really issues I guess, except maybe the first two) And what others had drawn that it considered correct. If you got it wrong, you can see what Google’s AI thought your drawing looks like. After 6 of these, you get to see your results.
#GOOGLE QUICKDRAW FULL#
If not, you get the full 20 secs to keep trying. The Google AI is supposedly blind to that, and tries to guess what you’re drawing as you draw it, and if it guesses correctly, you move on to the next word. The game asks you to doodle a word it shows you in 20 seconds. It does not harm anyone in the sense mentioned by Safiya Noble (stereotyping objectification of women of color) or Cathy O’Neill (increasing discrimination against African Americans in courts)… But it’s an almost transparent look at how the neural network learns from data sets and is therefore fascinating to watch… A bit like my undergraduate thesis, but more obvious to non-techie people because it’s visual. Google’s Quickdraw is an online web-based game that you can have fun with while you teach Google’s doodle recognition AI (yes, you’re helping train Google’s AI for no pay, but you already do that each time you use Google, so what’s new?)Īlso not new? The way this neural network reproduces dominant culture. What kind of images come to mind when you see these words? How would you doodle them if you only had 20 seconds?
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