ok...this just trips me out..
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Can anyone stop being impressed at all the names it can get? It's not actually that difficult.
It's a huge database of hundreds of thousands of characters and people, programmed with a whole array of questions. It SEEMS really clever (and in fact it is really well programmed), but it's not actually as hard as all that. A lot of the questions it asks narrow the list down a HELL of a lot very quickly- a question such as "does your character fight"? for example rules out an IMMENSE number of people whether you say yes or no. A lot of seemingly innocuous questions can actually make it extremely easy to narrow down- for example "main character", "fights with sword", "adult male", "from a novel", "from a video game" and "uses elemental magic" gets it pretty close to what I was thinking of rather easily (Geralt of Rivia, from The Witcher). The program simply compiles probabilities and then asks questions selected to narrow the probabilities down even further until it gets it down to a single name. Simple but impressive.
I did manage to stump it on one though- although it got Lillet Blan (from GrimGrimoire) in a single go, it didn't have Bartido Ballentyne on database (although its first guess was surprising- Nevill Longbottom from Harry Potter).
I did find one notable recurring bug- it keeps asking about different hair colours long after you've already told it what colour the character's hair is.
It's a huge database of hundreds of thousands of characters and people, programmed with a whole array of questions. It SEEMS really clever (and in fact it is really well programmed), but it's not actually as hard as all that. A lot of the questions it asks narrow the list down a HELL of a lot very quickly- a question such as "does your character fight"? for example rules out an IMMENSE number of people whether you say yes or no. A lot of seemingly innocuous questions can actually make it extremely easy to narrow down- for example "main character", "fights with sword", "adult male", "from a novel", "from a video game" and "uses elemental magic" gets it pretty close to what I was thinking of rather easily (Geralt of Rivia, from The Witcher). The program simply compiles probabilities and then asks questions selected to narrow the probabilities down even further until it gets it down to a single name. Simple but impressive.
I did manage to stump it on one though- although it got Lillet Blan (from GrimGrimoire) in a single go, it didn't have Bartido Ballentyne on database (although its first guess was surprising- Nevill Longbottom from Harry Potter).
I did find one notable recurring bug- it keeps asking about different hair colours long after you've already told it what colour the character's hair is.
This is pretty impressive. I can only beat it by asking it with characters from an book that's not very well known.
Oh, and I just got asked 'Are they a human being?', I answered no, and then it asked, 'Are they black?'
Bloody hell, it just guessed Icarium. I am very impressed.
Oh, and I just got asked 'Are they a human being?', I answered no, and then it asked, 'Are they black?'
Bloody hell, it just guessed Icarium. I am very impressed.
It guessed 3CPO, Dawn from pokemon, Joey from friends and Garrus from ME.
One small mistake when I was thinking of Marowak and it said Cubone.
One small mistake when I was thinking of Marowak and it said Cubone.
The scary part was not that it guessed evie from "Out of This World" but that it actually had a picture, yet no picture of Patriot from the young avengers
It got Evie but not Buzz Belmondo
It got Evie but not Buzz Belmondo
Some people it didn't get:
The Sign Painter (World of goo)
Chuck Goodrich (The adventures of dr. Mcninja)
The Voodoo Lady (Monkey Island)
The Sign Painter (World of goo)
Chuck Goodrich (The adventures of dr. Mcninja)
The Voodoo Lady (Monkey Island)
i finally beat it with:
The Guy from I Wanna Be The Guy
still super impressive and one of the coolest sites ever
after i continued with it though it guessed The Kid. i had to give it that one
The Guy from I Wanna Be The Guy
still super impressive and one of the coolest sites ever
after i continued with it though it guessed The Kid. i had to give it that one
Sora from KH. though it was kinda obvious at question 4 and 6 when he asked "Brown hair/Keyblade" now to try another...
Oh goodness. It even got Slartibartfast from Hitchhiker's Guide on the first go.
As well as Old Blanchy, Mankrik's Wife and Alleria Windrunner, all obscure characters from Warcraft lore.
Oh yeah. and Zöe Castillo, from Dreamfall.
As well as Old Blanchy, Mankrik's Wife and Alleria Windrunner, all obscure characters from Warcraft lore.
Oh yeah. and Zöe Castillo, from Dreamfall.
It got Caleb from Blood, impressive.
Ishmael, another member of the Chosen, has it stumped though.
He wasn't in the database. Figures.
It got King from KoF in two. As soon as you get to a short haired blonde female fighter you're practically there. Let's try a hard one again.
Nope, doesn't know Manhunter.
I got a dozen characters it probably won't get then. One more try.
Nope, doesn't know The Doctor from the Authority either. (It came up with Tin Tin as a guess, pretty cool.)
Pfah, this thing is swamped with stuff from 4chan.
Ishmael, another member of the Chosen, has it stumped though.
He wasn't in the database. Figures.
It got King from KoF in two. As soon as you get to a short haired blonde female fighter you're practically there. Let's try a hard one again.
Nope, doesn't know Manhunter.
I got a dozen characters it probably won't get then. One more try.
Nope, doesn't know The Doctor from the Authority either. (It came up with Tin Tin as a guess, pretty cool.)
Pfah, this thing is swamped with stuff from 4chan.
