Allen Institute debuts AI that plays Pictionary-style games to learn ‘common sense’

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle today debuted AllenAI, a system designed to play a Pictionary-like game called Iconary with humans. The AI system can either guess what a human is drawing or draw something and have a human guess the phrase being depicted. AllenAI is free to play online.

Each drawing made by humans during each game is converted into a symbol using Google’s Quick Draw dataset, which holds more than 50 million drawings and can interpret human sketches.