[extropy-chat] Twenty Questions Twenty Questions - The neural-net on the Internet

[Erik Starck]

On 2005-02-18 The Avantguardian  wrote:
>--- Hara Ra <harara at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I won, using "spittle bug"
>> >Very interesting 20 questions game based on AI
>> (they claim)
>> >http://www.20q.net/
>
>I was very impressed by it. It guessed itself
>"20Q.net" in 19 questions. Could this be a rudimentary
>form of self-awareness? This definately passes a
>constrained form of the Turing test limited to the
>playing of twenty questions. Wow.

Yes, very impressive.
I managed to beat it by thinking of my Saab 93 Aero. It guessed "sports car" but I wanted the brand. A human would probably ask "what country was it made in?" or something like that, and link the country to the brand.
But maybe I was cheating a bit. Don't know if specific brands of objects are allowed in the game.  :o)
Anyway, a human would probably get it.


Erik