Ani Kembhavi

Ani Kembhavi

Venture Partner at AI House

Ani Kembhavi is a venture partner at AI House and an expert in computer vision and embodied AI. He is director of science strategy at Wayve and was previously a senior director at the Allen Institute for AI and a professor at the University of Washington.

Allen Institute’s Iconary uses Pictionary-style play to train AllenAI on common-sense scene understanding

Researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence released Iconary, an online Pictionary-style game where a system called AllenAI tries to guess drawings of complex scenes it hasn’t seen before to teach and evaluate common-sense reasoning. The game forces AI to identify visual elements, infer their relationships, and translate scenes into simple language—skills standard game-based benchmarks don’t capture.

Allen Institute launches Iconary: Pictionary-style game where AllenAI and humans draw and guess to test common-sense image-language understanding

Allen Institute for AI created Iconary, a Pictionary-style game that lets humans and its AllenAI algorithms communicate by drawing and guessing with a menu of icons, testing machine image recognition, language understanding, and rudimentary common sense. The web-based game lets players and the system alternate roles as drawer and guesser using symbol palettes rather than freehand sketches.

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