A brave, new step in AI?

[Oilerfan92]

Even though its pretty mathimatical in its equasion ( It cuts around 1/2 with the male/female question and then 1/2 again with the real/fiction) Each question slowly cuts down the # of possibilities. Its like the guess your age app. There will be a screen of random #s and if it isnt there thats like 20 some numbers instantly eliminated.

But, at the same time, this is similar to how we guess things, we mentaly make a list and when someone answers a question we cross those people off.

Still its pretty neat. Especially when you think you have it beat and its still asking vauge questions then BOOM it has it.

I managed to beat it with Sam Ganger (hockey player with the Edmonton Oilers) when it guessed Mike Camalleri (also a hockey player for a different team). Although i may have miss-answered a question and Ganger isnt a huge player.

 

[imnot]

didnt get your mum!, got Yahtzee.

 

[Oilerfan92]

This is neat. But its not what i would call AI.

What would though ?

 

[RYjet911]

Dude, it's only twenty questions. However unlike a normal person it just has a database that links certain questions to specific people.

I've fooled it several times in the past by picking purposefully obscure people. They're on the database, but it just linked them wrong. I managed it with Sheriff Jack Carter from Eureka.

 

[nuba km]

http://us.akinator.com/

Search bar approved, this beauty has cropped up on 4chan the past for nights. Don't worry, it's completely safe and SFW. My apology to those who are familiar with it.

We've all pictured the future, and they usually involve extremely smart computer programs running very specific searches for us, rather than trusting Google. So the question is what dos this lovely site mean for that? Think it could be the first step in a new breed of search engine? Think it could be the first step in anyhting in particular? Think it's just one hellova time sink?

Also, as a side note, did it guess your character? I've done it 3 times, Kyle Katarn, Gregor Eisenhorn and Ciaphas Cain... It's managed all 3. I'm about to give Ibram Gaunt a shot.

Hmm, The Escapist seems to have undone/never done my previous 2 edits? Well they basically re outlined the idea. Not AI, but a step forward for the likes of search engines and possible VIs as ME would call them.

for every name in it's data base it has a tick list, as you fill the tick list it picks questions that makes the option split as evenly as possible ones it's left with one choice it will say that name and you are like wow if it reaches question 20 it picks the name that is picked most often and says that one if it is incorrect it will keep going till it is correct as well as removing more options it has no AI just a tick list.

added zombie muffin.

 

[Oilerfan92]

Linus Omark (Edmonton Oilers prospect) hockey player
Zdeno Chara (Boston Bruins) Hockey
Daron M (SOAD and Scars on Broadway)
Shavo (SOAD)
Several friends and associates

I was doing the girl i liked and went through the questions normally (do you love her, have you kissed her, etc) and the last 2 questions were "Is she a knight" and "does she have an engine". What could those questions change ? Am i in love with a robotic Joan of Arc ?

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

This thing has a stupid way of asking questions sometimes.

"Does your character have a beard?"

Yes

"Has you character ever had any facial hair?"

Uhm... yes.

"Does your character have brown hair?"

Yes

"Is your character blonde?"

If he was blonde, don't you think I would have said 'no' to the last question?

 

[blue spartan 11]

I beated him using a french teen novel character: Tara Duncan.

Otherwise it manage to answer everything I throw at him.

 

[Naeo]

I don't believe it runs on AI. I believe it runs on a set of data and checks it against your answers to narrow down people. If you say "definitely" or "definitely not" to any answer it uses that to eliminate anyone with the opposite status- saying your character is married will eliminate all single ones from being a possible answer, etc etc, until it jut narrows it down to one.

 

[RandV80]

I stumped it with Thulsa Doom. Of course though once you stump it and give the correct answer it'll know the next time someone asks.

 

[reyttm4]

It's got the guys from Mega64 on it, I'm impressed.

 

[megamanenm]

This thing has a stupid way of asking questions sometimes.

"Does your character have a beard?"

Yes

"Has you character ever had any facial hair?"

Uhm... yes.

"Does your character have brown hair?"

Yes

"Is your character blonde?"

If he was blonde, don't you think I would have said 'no' to the last question?

That's because it doesn't remember what it has just asked, it just asks random questions and eventually narrows down its questions.

 

[Oilerfan92]

I don't believe it runs on AI. I believe it runs on a set of data and checks it against your answers to narrow down people. If you say "definitely" or "definitely not" to any answer it uses that to eliminate anyone with the opposite status- saying your character is married will eliminate all single ones from being a possible answer, etc etc, until it jut narrows it down to one.

Exactly, thats why the first 2 questions are gender and real/fiction. That pretty much cuts it down by 1/2 twice. Then it finds out if your person is a celebrity (which it will guess specifically) or a person in your life (which it will guess the type of person). And once thats done its career (athlete, actor, etc) and what their role is in that position, and then a couple character specific questions (race, characteristics, etc).

With non-celebrities, once it figures your talking about a type of person it jumps right to characteristics.

That being said, its still really neat.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I stumped it with Phil Foglio (comic artist who does, among other things, Girl Genius).

Edited to add: Stumped it again with Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels to Queen Elizabeth I.

 

[DazZ.]

That's not AI, that's just a huge 20 questions database.

Think it could be the first step in a new breed of search engine?

No, because it works nothing like a search engine and wouldn't be able to find any new sites at all.

 

[Numb1lp]

I think it must have taken a long time just to get pictures, and for that I give props to the creator.

 

[Caligulust]

Beat it after 77 questions.

Mine was Dr. Rosenberg of Half Life: Decay.

 

[rory12345]

I beat it with Johnny Flynn.