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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2010 22:30:31 GMT
This site continues to amaze me at how it can usually give the correct reply while seeming to ask no specific questions that lead it to the conclusion. Yes, of course you can beat it if you think of the most incredibly obscure person possible, but it can really figure out the most amazing answers. Give Akinator a try. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2010 23:58:37 GMT
The French Akinator seems to be smarter than his foreign counterparts.  I was surprised to beat his English impersonation on Ahmad Shah Massoud. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2010 0:18:33 GMT
I defeated him with Charlotte Corday. He thanked me graciously for having introduced a new character. I wonder if we wait a couple of days, will Akinator be able to guess her.
I also just found out that her birthday was one day before mine. Cool!
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 2, 2010 2:13:13 GMT
Funny, I introduced him a new character, Gringo Honasan, quite a hero of mine in the 80s and 90s Philippines.
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Post by Jazz on Mar 2, 2010 9:50:26 GMT
Ackie must be tired tonight. I defeated him with the Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, The Outliers and The Tipping Point.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 2, 2010 10:33:15 GMT
You'd have defeated me with that one as well, Jazz.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2010 14:58:53 GMT
After looking him up, I was embarrassed that I didn't know GringoHonasan. HW, I think you'd really enjoy reading Malcom Gladwell. I guess I'd call him an essayist. (Jazz - do you agree?) I keep his website bookmarked. Whether or not you agree with him, he is an interesting thinker. www.gladwell.com/index.html |
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Post by bjd on Mar 2, 2010 15:35:39 GMT
I defeated him with Manuel Nunez-Yanowsky, the architect of the police station in the Streamline thread
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 0:07:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2010 5:55:30 GMT
Close enough.  |
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Post by fumobici on Mar 3, 2010 6:56:37 GMT
At least that's the cropped version of that photo!
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Post by rikita on Mar 6, 2010 0:16:17 GMT
this is kind of addictive. i blame you for my lack of sleep tonight.
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Post by rikita on Mar 6, 2010 0:24:22 GMT
yeah strange how it often guesses stuff even though it only asked a few questions that are actually relevant - but i think it goes by how often people think of specific characters, so it guesses the most likely one then, after excluding some others.
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Post by lola on Mar 6, 2010 3:08:54 GMT
We sometimes still play 20 Questions on long car rides. It starts out "I'm thinking of someone." We can almost always guess even the most tangential person in our shared past, because every Yes or No narrows it down.
Hannah was always the most creative; once she stumped us by thinking of air.
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Post by hwinpp on Mar 6, 2010 6:24:41 GMT
He got Billy the Kid pretty quick. I wonder if he'd got other outlaws as well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2010 6:54:59 GMT
He gets Jack Kerouac very quickly as well. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2010 7:21:01 GMT
I'm stunned! It took him three tries, but he got it!  |
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Post by rikita on Mar 8, 2010 0:23:10 GMT
guessed elena ceausescu on second try.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2010 6:21:08 GMT
I was surprised that it got Alexandre Dumas on the second guess, even though the questions had not narrowed it down to eliminate people like Victor Hugo.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2010 7:47:37 GMT
I think there is a demographics factor allowing him to "guess". For instance, when I did it the other day, I was thinking of Marie Antoinette as I filled in my name & gender on the form. Then I decided that was too easy, so changed it to Charlotte Corday. Sure enough, Akinator tried Marie Antoinette right off the bat.
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Post by gertie on Mar 11, 2010 23:17:15 GMT
I gave up after four tries trying to get him to come up with Perez Hilton(Hollywood gossip blogster). The closest was Paramore, which at least starts with P. I think maybe internet personalities fly under his radar.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 21:34:24 GMT
Milou (Snowy) in 12 questions
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2010 21:40:29 GMT
Mannekin Pis in 29 questions
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 12, 2010 21:41:50 GMT
Snowy, the little dog of TinTin ~~ that Snowy?
He guessed it?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 15:02:07 GMT
Yes - Tintin's dog. Tintin would have been too easy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 16:43:55 GMT
Well he only took 15 questions to get something like "my penis". I have to admit that I burst out laughing when he asked "does your character look like a snake?"
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2010 16:44:54 GMT
I think that proves my theory about demographics. (  ) Oh -- sorry, Fulgenzio, about not commenting on Mannekin Pis. That is amazing. However did it occur to you to ask that? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2010 21:53:09 GMT
I chose someone from the 'statue' thread, and it took Akinator 23 questions to find Mary Tyler Moore. Not bad really, since she has dropped out of sight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2011 12:16:50 GMT
The data base of Akinator is becoming truly impressive.
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Post by rikita on Aug 9, 2011 19:58:28 GMT
ha, i defeated him.
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