Pictionary's Latest Board Game Has AI Guess What You Draw
thegamer.comPictionary has stood the test of time and cemented itself among the board game elite long ago. The premise of Pictionary is simple. A player is given something to draw, and their teammates must guess what it is they're drawing within the time limit. There have been various adaptations and spinoffs over the years, but none are quite as innovative as a new version of the game that brings AI into the mix.
Pictionary vs. AI keeps the premise of the original game but gives it a modern-day twist. Rather than one player drawing for the rest of their team, players work individually and will need to draw something well enough for the AI to recognize it. Players will not only earn points for drawing something well enough that the AI knows what it is, but other players will earn points if they can predict whether or not the AI will recognize someone's drawing.
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Just to mix things up even more, Pictionary vs. AI will also throw additional obstacles into the mix. Players will occasionally be tasked with drawing their assigned item without using their hands, or even with their eyes closed. Suffice to say, despite the game's AI pulling from millions of user-submitted drawings as it attempts to determine what exactly it is you've sketched, there are probably going to be plenty of occasions when it simply doesn't know what the heck you were trying to draw.
Human sketches, AI guesses. Pictionary vs. AI is a modern-day twist on the classic board game in which players must draw for an AI rather than the rest of their team. Points are earned if the AI correctly guesses what you've drawn, and also if you correctly predict whether the AI will be right or not.
To get the game started, players will need to use a
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