The Akinator

[TechnoViking]

Im not sure if you guys hae seen this, the Akinator will read your mind!!! well not really just a very clever algorithm :)

http://en.akinator.com/

Think of the most obscure famous person and it will guess it, lol i even tried Milli Vanilli and it got it LOL

A great way to pass time on a cloudy night

Enjoy

[LewisM]

HE took a LONG time to guess HR Pufnstuf! :)

And he said Big Ted when I was thinking Little Ted :)

[TechnoViking]

But you have to admit its pretty clever

[LewisM]

Yup, and I finally stumped it :)

Knew John Holmes quickly :lol: And Cicciolina... lots of pervs out there;):rolleyes:

[MrB]

Took about 20 questions to get Sir Isaac Newton.
Must draw on a HUGE database of information.

[wasyoungonce]

Love it well played...it even knew Ned jelly!

[Barrykgerdes]

I haven't checked it out but it sounds like a version of "20 Questions"
This was a game show on radio years ago and there have probably been TV versions also.

20 questions asked in a logical fashion should solve 99.9999% of questions from a good dictionary or encyclopedia. Lets face it 2 to the 20th power gives a mammoth number of yes/no answers. The panel could only be stumped with very obscure items.

I would suspect that there have been a few computer programs that use this simple routine to sort through 2 to the 20th answers.

Barry

[Varangian]

Well, he came up with King Leonidias to my Hannibal, so not too far off!

[mikerr]

He took three attempts to come up with Johannes Kepler.:) Still got there though!:thumbsup:
Fun!

Michael.

[inline_online]

He he, that is a great time waster.
It got my Galileo, Papa Smurf, John McLean and Kerry Packer very easily.
Have to think of something more obscure.

[Nightshift]

He didnt know Gronk from "Its about time" a series made in the 60's that I loved as a kid. I must say that very few people ever remember this series, it was a typical silly USA made sitcom right up there with Gilligan and McHales, Bewitched etc. Good clean fun though.

Cheers, Dennis.

[LewisM]

I thought of Hans-Ulrich Rudel. It took the Genie 2 guesses, but he got it. VERY surprised!

[dugnsuz]

Meat Loaf, Steve Vai, Orianthi, Paul Hogan, Branford Marsalis, George RR Martin - got them all in 1 or 2 guesses.

Love to know how it works
Doug

[Nightshift]

I have tried several times now and he cant get Grant Kenny for some reason? Odd considering how famous Grant is and how obscure some of the other answers were? I guess he is only as good as his database.

[mozzie]

woo hoo beat him...he didn't know wez from madmax....

[mithrandir]

It can't find James Oliver Rigney, or his pen name Robert Jordan.

[TechnoViking]

Just keep clicking "YES" and see what happens

[big_dav_2001]

Got him... thinking it would be American based, I tried to think of an obscure Aussie personality...

'Strop' from the Paul Hogan show.. 50 questions and three guesses (Russel Coit, Nudge from Hey Dad and Graham Kennedy), he gave up and I had to tell him...

Plenty of fun trying to outwit him... Hehehe

Davin

[acropolite]

Took 3 or 4 guesses but it finally git Alexi Sayle right. I'm impressed!!!!

I tried Barbara Streisand and Doc Neeson, got both eventually as well.

[tlgerdes]

Didnt know Buckaroo Banzia

[lacad01]

Well he didn't guess Edmund Wells who wrote David Coperfield & Grate Expectations, nor did he guess Charles Dikkens the famous Dutch author who wrote Rarnaby Budge ;)

[Barrykgerdes]

These type of programs have been around for years and most of them were provided with a learn mode to supplement their databases.

Has anyone who beat it tried to start anew to see whether it has learnt from its mistakes.

Barry

[Terry B]

It failed on Fred Watson after about 4 guesses and over 100 questions.

[pvelez]

It should - I stumped it with Fred at the weekend and gave it the data it needed to update its database.

Hopefully it won't be long till it asks whether your character is an astronomer or astrophysicist.

Pete

[pvelez]

Dare I ask whether anyone has tried Brian Cox on it yet?

Pete

[Iain.k]

This is great, it must use some kind of black magic because its got everything right so far.

[Iain.k]

68 questions to get Brian Cox.

[mikerr]

It couldn't get Dirk Hartog. :D

Michael.

[JethroB76]

It guessed Yngwie Malmsteen when I thought of Mille Petrozza