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This isn't a mystery, but it kind of amazed me. http://en.akinator.com/
For the computer literate : clever little database checking answers against questions to define the correct field.
For the non computer literate : Psychic virtual genie freakishly guesses who you're thinking of.
Its just corrected guessed : Mary Poppins, Scott of the Antartic, Michael Caine, Ghengis Khan, Rasputin, Arthur Dent, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas the tank engine. I can't beat it I give up now.
Not sure if this qualifies as "impossible to find" but Akinator, the Web Genious is pretty cool. Pick a person, real or fictitious (and at least semi-famous), and answer the questions he asks you about them. He's right about 99% of the time.
And yes, he'll know if you're talking about him. And one time the character I got was "Akinator's Boyfriend" or something like that when the person I was talking about was him.
Akinator is a web program that plays "20 questions" with you to guess the identity of a character you're thinking of. Literally any character, from any work or from real life. It's frighteningly accurate.
You can play here: http://en.akinator.com/
http://en.akinator.com/ - It's like 20 questions. It can guess almost any person or character in the world with frightning accuracy, by you answering yes or no questions. Also an app on various mobile platforms.
Don't underestimate this genie. Foaming Mouth Guy and the Cabbage Merchant easy because of how well represented they are on the internet.
He can even guess Foo Foo Cuddlypoops or Melon Lord as the character you pick.
link: http://en.akinator.com/
I can't help but think that this article is exaggerating a bit when it comes to 1. the student's talent and 2. the effect of that software. I don't know if it's just me but as a student in the same domain of software programming I can't praise that app as high as the article does because the code is very simple to program for something as trivial as yes/no question.
Printing the Appeal out after a pre-coded template isn't rocket science either and it's not like he is the first to come up with an idea like that. Hell, even The Akinator works in a similar fashion.
Also I think the programmer thinks a bit high of himself, going as far as to request his app to be included in entrepreneurs driverless cars which are truely innovative and masterful pieces of software engineering. They could code something like this during their lunch break (exaggerating here a bit of course).
He could have just made an mobile app out of it and market it like that instead.
This site asks you a number of questions about a real or fictional character you're thinking of. You answer "yes/no" (or if required "probably" or "probably not") and almost all the time it gets it right.
Not only is its accuracy amazing, but also how many times you find out someone else has thought of that really unusual character.
It's a game, kind of. Akinator is a genie that bets he can guess any character (real or fictional, popular at all) you come up with. It's like 20 Questions with an AI but only people and characters. I'm surprised TOP is on there since it's basically an inanimate object, but not surprised something from RT is on there. I've tried to stump him several times with things like Edgar the Cow, York, and Georgia (from RVB). It's kind of fun, you should check it out. http://en.akinator.com/
Because nobody posted a link yet
Edit: Hmm... Can't get Talene. It guessed someone I'd never heard of. Then it got to WoT guessing Lanfear then Eladia. Then it guessed someone I don't know and gave up. I'm kinda surprised there are any named WoT characters not in there at this point.
I did this for about 5-10 min
Could not make him guess Lady Di, and he's been able to guess Chip/etc for years.
I just did it again, trying to get him to guess Opie and the last question he asked was "Does your character have small breasts?" "No". "I think of...Gregg "Opie" Hughes!" Hahahahaha. These are the small gifts life gives us.
A game in the form of a website or App in which you pick a character, real or from fiction and the answer questions about them. It's often eerily quick to get it. Sometimes it's completely off, and sometimes (like here) it finds characters that are weirdly similar.
Amazing. I first came across this website a few years ago. You know you've made it when enough people think of you to enter you into this thing's consciousness.
Akinator - I tried playing, and it got Spencer on the second try. First time it guessed some bald dude named Bertra(m/n), whoever that is.
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/valide/list/23611/Mango/1 So fairly random but stumbled upon this 20 questions type app and thought I stumped it until it got to "Do they have children? Do they have facial hair? Is their name a type of food?" I didn't think they'd know mango but it was kinda cool they did.
On a side note, to figure out if you mean Leffen or Armada it asks "Are they Swedish? Are they mean?"
For those of you that want to know what akinator is: It's a 20 questions type guessing game. You pick real or fictional people or characters and answer questions until, almost always, the genie gets it right.
Here's the link http://en.akinator.com/personnages/jeu
People probably already know this but I just discovered Akinator and it's amazing. It basically asks 20 or less questions and guesses who you're thinking of.
I tried it 5 times and it correctly guessed I was thinking (in the order I tried it) of Rand al'Thor, Pnoy, Jose Rizal, Min Farshaw, and I really wanted to trip it to prove it doesn't know everything so I tried myself and... it guessed it correctly. That part was creepy. @_@
Edit: Tried one last time and it doesn't know Juan Tamad. I guess it doesn't know a lot about the (relatively) obscure Philippine personalities and characters.
It's a database that tries to guess what you are thinking of by asking you questions, it's been around for years. The more people use it, the better it gets, its fairly effective. It's a challenge to try and beat it, I've had to go for some truly obscure characters for it to give up.
Akinator - a super fun app where the Genie can guess a person you're thinking of with Yes/No questions.. A great app to play with strangers when you're trying to break the ice.. http://en.akinator.com/
I don't think anyone (besides the developers) knows how Akinator really works. Most of the answers I see online are just guesses of how they think it could work without any direct proof, or a thought line of "X works similarly, so Akinator must also do the same!". All we know is that it supposedly uses an "original, secret algorithm".
There are several possibilities, each varying in difficulty:
- Maintaining a large database and table of attributes. Each answer eliminates rows until only a small handful of answers remain, at which point the program can guess based on factors like frequency or popularity. This has no machine learning involved.
- A decision tree. Each answer leads the program down a certain path down a tree until there are enough known qualities to make a guess.
- Machine learning algorithms / artificial intelligence / neural networks. This is a broad category of possibilities, and would be a lot more complex. It's also how some sites like 20Q implemented their version of the game. Whether or not Akinator uses ML or not is uncertain, but they do mention they use software by Elokence, a French engineering company specializing in artificially-intelligent systems and human-machine dialogue.
Here's the link if you want to have some CaptionBot fun!!! (You submit an image, and it will try to describe what it thinks it sees) https://www.captionbot.ai
Also, here is Akinator, a bot who guesses characters. I have tried to add as many Survivor contestants as I can into its database. Enjoy! http://en.akinator.com
I think it's some learning algorithm, it knows way too much stuff to be hand-fed. I remember when it became popular first, and it already knew some low-class TV prominence from my country.
Akinator the web genie.
Think of any person, real or fictitious (and at least somewhat famous), answer his questions, and he'll guess who it is most of the time. You can trick him with some more obscure characters, but he'll often guess correctly.
I don't think it was out of character at all. Remember in S2E9 when Sarah called Cosima her sister? ("My sister is dying, Fee!") That hit me like a ball peen hammer when she said that. I mean, I think she may have called Helena her sister before, but that was an entirely relationship. With Cosima, she is desperate.
So, I thought it was a natural progression. By the end of season 2, Sarah was also referring to Alison, and Helena as her sisters (in a non-dysfunctional way). Then shortly thereafter she called Mrs. S. "mum". All her life, Sarah's instinct was to run, but at the same time she's been trying to find a reason to stand. It turns out that reason was the one thing she thought she'd never have and that's family. And goddamn woe betide you if you threaten that.
There's a game web game I like to play called Akinator. It's basically 20 Questions, with a little AI that is able to guess characters based on the answers of previous players. It's really quite good. After the first season of Orphan Black when I was thinking of Sarah and it asked me if she had a sister, I would say "no". I always say "yes" now. And if it asked if she had a mother, I would say "no", but even though Amelia is dead, still I now say "yes". It isn't even something I think about. They're just the natural answers.
Assume you have a set of 10 billion people, and assume each question you ask narrows it down by 50%. For instance, first question you could ask if the person was male or female, regardless of the answer, the remaining potential pool of people ends up at 5 billion. Do it again, the pool shrinks to 2.5 billion. Do this 20 times total:
>10,000,000 * 0.5^20 = 9.54
So given 10 billion people, and 20 questions that cut the population in half, you'd narrow it down to 10 people.
Now, obviously each question wont be a fifty-fifty split, but consider that the starting set of people wont even be 1 million, it would probably be closer to 1,000 (think of every person you know, every celebrity, every mutual friend, everyone that you would be expected to know, etc). Assuming 1,000 people and 50% questions, you'd only need 10 questions to arrive at 1 specific person.
>1,000 * 0.5^10 = 0.98
It's all about what questions you ask. I'm not familiar with Scribblenauts, but games like Akinator use previously identified games to look for similar questions / answers and arrive very quickly no matter how obscure.
I was kind of looking forward to it too :c
They may be stupid but these are always sort of fun.
edit: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/
here we go.
edit: Got Sora from NGNL
I feel like there needs to be an equivalent of the Akinator but for anime suggestions..
>Do you want a female MC?
Yes
>Do you like fanservice?
No
>Do you like crime thrillers based in an authoritarian future dystopia?
Yes
>Akinator recommends.. Psycho-Pass !
Etc.
Before anyone asking, Akinator is a website that tries to guess the character you picked using yes/no questions.
Now... Who wants to try Lovely Rita/Lucy/Billy Shears/Sexy Sadie/Helter Skelter/Bungalow Bill/Rocky Raccoon/Maxwell/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polytheme Pam/etc?
I mean, I know you're joking, but most of the pattern recognition stuff has either been replaced already, or is being done by interns because the place they work at hasn't realized that computers can do that. I mean, there are computer programs for categorizing insects for fuck's sake. The databases most interns use just have a series of questions that need to be answered along the lines of this game. And there are more advanced categorization programs out there that rely on nothing more than pictures captured in a certain format to figure out the answers to the questions. So now you just put the bug on a white paper and take a picture. It even knows if you've discovered a new species, and it's better at it than humans are. Because even if it makes a mistake, it makes the same mistake all the time, and it can be corrected and retroactively applied to the entire database without leaving any misplaced remnants.
Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge, It's actually one I really like and it's apparently obscure enough I was able to fool Akinator with it.
Edit: It's actually two parts that were aired together
The question is far too broad, but as a nice entry point I'd suggest you to learn about expert systems. It's a good example of AI from historical perspective and also can impress you quite a lot (like this one http://en.akinator.com/ ).
> http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/commune/ then play http://en.akinator.com/ with their god.
Lol
> If you got infinite money and time, So do the adventurers trying to kill you :D
Yeah, but theirs isnt accumulating in one pool like mine ;P
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/commune/ then play http://en.akinator.com/ with their god.
Boom. They should be able to find a way in that way.
If you got infinite money and time, So do the adventurers trying to kill you :D
Maybe give Akinator a try? It's pretty good at finding anime characters if you know a few characteristics but forgot their name.
Edit: You've tried the anime database. Didn't see that, my bad.
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/jeu
I was playing with Akinator and my character was "Dexter Fowler."
It asked if he was a Power Ranger... I stopped, thought about it, and put "probably" because you never really know. Akinator got it right, so I've headcannoned that Dexter is actually a Power Ranger.
It has wide reaching implications and applications, but the theory itself, while simple, is still pretty inaccessible to most lay people, and using it in real life isn't going to have a massive effect on how you actually make many decisions. It has the biggest impact in cases with large datasets, in day to day life you really have very little data available. An example would be the game of 20 questions (guess an object or person in 20 yes or no questions). Your subsequent questions are informed by the answers you receive, and you can do really amazing feats of deduction if you have a large dataset available.
You probably already intuitively apply it in most cases that it would be useful.
Didn't get Borroq. It got Ser Arthur Dayne, but it couldn't get Skahaz. It did get close with Hizdahr on one of the three tries I gave it for the Shavepate.
(I'm assuming this website is the same thing just not an app.)
This isn't the first time I've come across this site, but I'll be damned if I'm not impressed every time I try to stump it.
It even got a character from the game Monaco.
OK, sorry for misunderstanding then. In that case maybe you could correlate some of the words with another, or make it ask some additional questions afterwards. IIRC you would need something of the order nr-of-selection-categories * log (number-of-spells-total) questions to pin-point search result. Something like that is a principle behind Akinator*
I can look it up later if you would like. Or maybe someone who recently had to work through A&DS course will come by.
EDIT: *) Or so I suspected. Apparently it is a secret that quite a few people tried to reverse-engineer.
>While others have already hinted at the hilarity which ensues when the holodeck meets a table,
Everyone is underestimating the power of a binary or tree search, and has probably never come across the Akinator The Wise.
For those who don't know, you pick a person, and Akinator tries to deduce who you are thinking of by asking a series of questions.
It doesn't take that many questions before it has come to a reasonable conclusion... Give it a try.
This is a very strange hackathon project.
Without more information about the algorithm, it's hard to tell whether or not what you're doing with this is worth pursuing or not. Another user here posted some pseudocode and I can only begin to hope that it's not that simple.
It almost seems like the concept was influenced by stuff like Akinator where the AI gets smarter the more people contribute to it. However, the problem set in Akinator is much smaller and is essentially very simple graph analysis. In your case, and I say this without knowing anything about its implementation, but it's like you're applying the same concept with language which is a much, much harder task.
I kind of won once... I used "The Great Stone Dragon" from Mulan. But you could definitely argue that the character doesn't really exist.
EDIT: I guess he's up there now, but it guessed some purple dragon first, then asked me if my character impersonates a great stone dragon. The final question was if my character was real. http://en.akinator.com/personnages/propose
It asks you questions and tries to figure out what character you are thinking of. I've stumped it once or twice, but it is hard to do. A lot of characters that I thought would be too obscure were sniffed out. Try it.
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/validelist/soundlike/4725921/Kino. I won! When it gave me the list of things, however, it got the namesake, them being Kino (male) and Kino (female protagonist) of Kino's Journey.
Madame Le Flour is a better background Pony than Applejack in a Dinner for one spoof.
But when I thought of "Mr.Turnip" http://en.akinator.com/ guesed "Rocky" and "The pudding Stu made at 4 am"
This website can read your mind ... They will find out any charecter you guess . It's fun at the fullest to messing around with. At the same time be amazed with how far the AI technology has achieved .
Oh, very interesting. Reminds me of Akinator (I'm not sure if it uses the same type of machine learning).
My Experience:
The first time I choose the word "chocolate". We actually connected after the 2nd attempt (connected chocolate with melting).
The 2nd time, well, I gave up after the 35th attempt. My original word was "Cheese". There were times where it seemed like the bot got stuck in a loop. Through, that may be my fault cause sometimes I would saw a word that was used in a previous comparison.
3rd time, I used a naughty word: Booty. When it asked me for something relating to "booty" and "upload", I decided that I may have made a mistake.
Maybe play Akinator. He can guess pretty much any person you can think of. Unless it's something too specific. Like he probably won't know the lead singer from your school band or something. I mean maybe he does.
I'll give you two websites!
http://en.akinator.com/ - this is a fun one, you imagine a person and Akinator tries to guess it, most of the time he guesses it.
http://www.meetgraham.com.au/view-graham - this website show's us how we would look like if our bodies were able to survive any accident on the road.
547 - NBA 2k18 (it's not out yet, but it can be preordered)
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"Akinator, the Web Genie is an internet game and mobile app based on Twenty Questions that attempts to determine which character the player is thinking of by asking them a series of questions."
Think of any person, real or fictional. After asking a series of questions, this site can almost certainly guess who it is, unless they are really, really niche or non-famous.
Two things.
First, Worm is a big story. I had something spoiled for me (on Akinator, of all places -- don't do Worm characters there!), and I had another thing that sounded like a big detail spoiled for me elsewhere, but in the end, neither of those things ruined it for me. This was partly because I overestimated how important the spoilers would be and partly because I badly misinterpreted the spoilers. With Worm, it's hard not to misinterpret spoilers, because the plot zigs where you expect it to zag, even if you know ahead of time it's going to try to trick you.
For example (I'm not saying this is what happens in Worm), a character could be deceased at the end because of a timeskip. It could be that Skitter becomes the leader because Grue goes on vacation. It could be something much weirder.
With this story, a little bit of information can be even more mysterious than having nothing at all.
Funny thing. I couldn't remember the name of Nanatsu no Taizai, but i remembered the pig Hawk. I then asked http://en.akinator.com/ if he knew the pigs name and he got it correct on first try. Might be worth a shot lol.
I've been fucking around with Akinator for the past 15 minutes or so. This motherfucker guessed Papyrus in like 10 questions. I'm currently seeing if it can guess obscure Animorphs characters.
Tried to beat Akinator by using Maud Pie, and he quickly found me out. Marble Pie took him a bit longer, like, 60+ questions, but in the end he got her too.
Last thing I googled was Demi Lovato because I was playing http://en.akinator.com/ and it asked me if the character I was thinking of was related to Demi Lovato in any way and I didn't know who that was.
The sex would be of the standard issue I believe.
I'm guessing it's an app based off this website, Akinator. The game play sounded like it, I've just never seen the app. http://en.akinator.com/
Edit: Yeah, it is. They have Allie listed on the website as Squiggles.
Don't have much experience with 2000 anime. If your friend knows more about the character you can try Akinator (which is basically a question based game for characters) to get a cross reference for the anime title.
Happy birthday! My boyfriend and I are long distance during the school year, so I totally understand your excitement :)
My guess is 434, and here's something to keep you entertained for like ever: http://en.akinator.com/
And my wishlist for my tea party themed gallery :) http://items.jellyneo.net/mywishes/moth_101/
How far away are we from computer system's like IBM's Watson being able to do the work of a family doctor/general practitioner?
More specifically, when will Watson being able to proverbially ask a series of "yes/no/my knee/yesterday" answerable questions, run it through its medical knowledge databases, yours and everyone else's personal medical history, your DNA profile and other relevant datasets to come to a medically safe conclusion? I'm thinking Akinator on steroids.
for those who don't know, Akinator is a website where a database will attempt to find a character, real or fake, by asking you a series of questions. it usually takes between 15-30 questions depending on how obscure the character is but this was question 68 and i thought it was pretty funny.
I'm impressed. I tried to beat it and lost with
Illya (Fate Kaleid Liner) Yasuri Shichika (Katanagari) Yui (Angel Beats)
I was finally able to beat it using Aura Shurifon (Tenshi Muyo War on Geminar). It's first guess was Black Cat. The second time it just gave up and said it's probably a character from a show not for children (note: one of the questions was whether this was a show for children and I answered don't know--in Japan children might be part of their demographic, but in the USA it'd probably be considered too ecchi).
edit: It also got Lafiel (Crest of the Stars) and Yahiko (Rurouni Kenshin). But then it got overconfident and guessed Akame (Akame Ga Kill) when I was thinking of her sister Kurome. Right show; wrong badass.
this user-agent sniffing shit is still happening in chromium based opera
so, when this new chromium based opera appeared, the word "Opera" is nowhere to be found in the UA string. instead, there is OPR. details
this change is important because of such a big switch to rendering engines (presto to chromium) and nobody would want anything made specifically for presto to be sent to chromium.
then some sites start looking for the OPR and hopefully they had the brains to not send presto specific stuff to chromium...
I've seen some sites pick up on OPR and try to recommend chrome...
then there is google web search. there is such a massive downgrade to a really old layout with the black bar at the top, and no ability to reverse image search, just because of the OPR in ua string. I actually made a special ua string just to send to google. all I did was cut off the OPR/xx.xx.xx.xx part and google web search works fine!
there is one site that picks up on the OPR tag and sends me to the mobile version of the site based on that tag alone.
For all you 20Q fans, there's a web browser version called Akinator for celebrities and fictional characters... and IT LEARNS FROM PEOPLE PLAYING IT because it asks you who you were thinking of if you won.
Well, they have something called 'Akinator the Genie', as both a phone app and a website game, but it only works with people and fictional characters. Still pretty accurate most of the time, even with more obscure characters (although I think the phone app requires the paid version for lesser known characters), though I don't know of any 'normal' question apps. I'm sure it's out there under some name, though, I'd be shocked if there wasn't.
Can't think of that famous person or character? It's on the tip of your tongue but you just can't figure it out and it's driving you crazy? Akinator knows who it is.
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/validelist/list/30059/Gafgarion Gottem.
67 questions before he gave up.
Edit : Got him again, completely http://en.akinator.com/personnages/validelist/soundlike/6989966/Main%20Character%20The%20Magic%20of%20Scheherazade 76 guesses before he gave up.
Link: http://en.akinator.com/ It's basically 20 questions on steroids but only for characters (real or fake). Once it's figured out your character is a porn star it asks important questions on age, race, cup size etc. Basically going to the super market for porn stars
I have terrible reflexes, which rules out nearly all twitch games. I do like Akinator, though. It's a 20 questions type game where you think of a person or character and the game will try to guess who it is. Because it learns over time based on the responses of its player base, it gets the correct answer more often than not. I wasted many hours on that thing.
Tried using the http://en.akinator.com/ and for some reason, I kept getting this message:
Guessed right one more time I know who you are thinking of, but I believe this is not for children
What the...
Jan from the Firebringer Trilogy defeated him.
It even went to the second "Does your character appear on this list?" before it showed up, though it was in the system.
If you think that's fun, try this: http://en.akinator.com/personnages/
After the player information section, just think of a character from a book/movie/anything that you know a bit about/able to answer questions about. It gets it almost every time.
Asking 33 yes-no questions gets you past 7 billion (2^33 = 8589934592). (Incidentally, that's where Akinator's seemingly magical guessing capabilities come from.) If you ask questions with more answers like "What's your favorite band?" or "What philosophical view do you subscribe to in life?" then that number drops dramatically. Can you really define your entire character with maybe a dozen multiple-choice questions?
I don't have any interesting questions, but I would like you to know that Akinator got both you and Swaim on the first guess. If that isn't a sign of fame, then there must be some other standard that I don't know about.