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

[Jeff Medina]

Erik: "Don't know if specific brands of objects are allowed in the game."

20Q.net: "The object you think of should be something that most people
would know about, but, never a specific person, place or thing."

"Saab 93 Aero" is not something most people know about. Erik: "But
maybe I was cheating a bit." Yep.



On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:06:45 +0100, Erik Starck <es at popido.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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