I wanted to raise concerns about the selection of Outdraw.AI as the “Most Creative” winner in the Gemini competition. While the app—a party game where players draw to outsmart AI—is entertaining, it appears to fall short of meeting several key competition criteria:
• Impact: It lacks a clear contribution to improving lives or environmental sustainability.
• Remarkability: It’s essentially a simple drawing game, without any surprising or groundbreaking innovation.
• Creativity: The criteria emphasize differentiation in functionality, user experience, and creative problem-solving. However, Outdraw.AI does not significantly deviate from existing drawing or party games.
• Usefulness: The app does not define a clear target user persona or address specific user needs.
• Execution: There’s little evidence of robust LLM or ML best practices in its design.
Considering these criteria, it’s unclear how Outdraw.AI aligns with the goals of the “Most Creative” category or the competition overall. I’d appreciate clarification on how these aspects were weighed during the judging process, as this selection may not reflect the competition’s objectives.
Thank you for your attention, and I look forward to your response.
I might be wrong since it is a bit vague. But based on my understanding, I think there is a misunderstanding here. Maybe this helps:
For an app to win in a specific category: Most Useful App, Most Creative… It needs to be “most” for that category. The general competition criteria maybe did contribute to a win. But I think the names are pretty self explanatory. For example for the “Most Creative App” this was the description:
“Blow us away with an app that shatters expectations and redefines the boundaries of what’s possible. We’re seeking applications that push the limits of creativity, AI, or even venture into the unknown.”
So from what I understand, stuff like “usefulness”, “impact”, … are irrelevant. You dont expect the “Best Game App” to be judged based on it’s environmental sustainability right?
In the end, creativity is open to discussion. But the app looked fun to play and trying to trick a visual model as a game concept is a creative idea. But you just said “Outdraw.AI does not significantly deviate from existing drawing or party games.”. How did we reach that conclusion? Have you seen alot of games with the same implementation of a visual ai model?
Brother, it’s Google completion. Before this, the most creative app, did you find any novelty in the grand winner’s idea? Is it even an app? Can any AI-enabled phones do it better since January 2024?
Apart from that, it’s Google. I remember that during the Fly Cup competition, a profile completed an entire lab of machine learning applications, hosting everything in just 2 minutes, including all endpoints and notebook creation from scratch. If you use Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you know how long it usually takes to create an endpoint. Again, HA HA, Google!
@Rapid_hunter
I completely agree with you. The Best Overall App is the least innovative submission among the notable ones! And honestly, it’s an overdone concept in every possible way. In fact, I think it’s the only submission in this competition that has numerous superior alternatives readily available on GitHub. Isn’t it interesting!