AI is guessing who you have in mind by asking you questions.
It's kinda amazing. It got 3 out of 3 tries of mine. :o
http://en.akinator.com/
Why does it have a picture of Siege on the website?
He didn't know Hank Aaron, though he came close with Barry Bonds and Jackie Robinson.
He got Akhenaten, but guess wrong three times before he got Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables).
Meh, it's just a decision tree. Seems to have a pretty extensive knowledge base though. I wonder if it can learn?
He got Peter North first guess, too. :cool:
He got John the Baptist after 20 questions. Thought he was on the wrong track when question 19 was "Is your character a Mexican?" :lol:
Took it 20 questions to narrow down Simo Häyhä. Funny little thing.
It never got mine, though I have now added it on there. Eustace the Monk. Fucking worthless. :rolleyes:
Quote from: Martinus on November 05, 2011, 04:38:01 PM
AI is guessing who you have in mind by asking you questions.
It's kinda amazing. It got 3 out of 3 tries of mine. :o
http://en.akinator.com/
It guessed, "my own cock" three times?
Stumped him with "the other lion" from Narnia, though he did manage to guess Aslan by question 40.
I defeated him with Kasey Studdard.
Took 50 odd questions to get to Saint Sebastian.
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
Got Jane Tennison in around 20 questions :o
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing,
Starship Troopers.
It got Maria Konopnicka on second guess. :huh:
It got the guy who became the first Polish gay MP three weeks ago in about 8 questions or so. WTF. This thing has huge database. :lol:
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Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.
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Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.
Actually, that's what I found most interesting. I had more sympathy for homosexuals after reading that book, where the guy comes back to earth and find out he's only straight person on a planet of gays. They call him "the old queer", and I found the effect interesting. I think it gave me better understanding of the alienation that real gays (not Marty), must feel. The parts where he keeps coming back to a stranger and stranger Earth was in my opinion the highlight of the book.
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Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.
Actually, that's what I found most interesting. I had more sympathy for homosexuals after reading that book, where the guy comes back to earth and find out he's only straight person on a planet of gays. They call him "the old queer", and I found the effect interesting. I think it gave me better understanding of the alienation that real gays (not Marty), must feel. The parts where he keeps coming back to a stranger and stranger Earth was in my opinion the highlight of the book.
Yes. But for trolling purposes, I say let the Taurians blow up FaggotEarth.
Beat him with Richard Hannay. First try. Not hard.
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Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Both books were written at different points in time.
Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.
Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.
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Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Both books were written at different points in time.
Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.
Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.
Also by to different guys. There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII. Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that. Halderman was an combat engineer in a war and Heinlein was a peace time naval officer. Heinlein was always a saber rattler as well, often depicting nuclear war as fairly minor and worth it to irradiate the Soviet Union.
pfft, it couldn't get Henry of Lausanne.
Quote from: Martinus on November 05, 2011, 05:45:32 PM
It got the guy who became the first Polish gay MP three weeks ago in about 8 questions or so. WTF. This thing has huge database. :lol:
It looks like it does learn. If you beat it you can enter your character into the database.
It's black magic it is.
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Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.
I liked that book. Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
Both books were written at different points in time.
Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.
Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.
Also by to different guys. There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII. Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that. Halderman was an combat engineer in a war and Heinlein was a peace time naval officer. Heinlein was always a saber rattler as well, often depicting nuclear war as fairly minor and worth it to irradiate the Soviet Union.
Well, in the 1950s he was right.
Quote from: Ideologue on November 05, 2011, 07:49:42 PM
Well, in the 1950s he was right.
I read about that. It was on June 14th, 1953 at 2:23pm, right?
:)
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There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII. Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that.
Was Mailer a WWII vet?
Land sakes, but its obvious what sort of people are active on akinator lately. He had Fluttershy locked down by question nine.
He got Trent Richardson after 20.
Played about a dozen times, he got almost all of them in under 20 questions. And a couple of them were pretty hard--he got Georgy Zhukov in about 12 question. He did have to make a second guess twice--once for Mike Stearns from the 1632 books (admittedly, a fairly obscure character) and again for Ice-T (who isn't obscure). And I beat him once, with Jay Rockefeller. Oddly, his first guess on that one was the other US Senator from WV, Joe Manchin. And one of the last questions before guessing Manchin was "have you ever said hello to your character" which I found both odd and somewhat disturbing.
I've tried this before and remember being amazed at it. This time....no. It just can't get David Beckham. Took 60 questions and a bunch of guesses
Quote from: Tyr on November 05, 2011, 09:34:33 PM
I've tried this before and remember being amazed at it. This time....no. It just can't get David Beckham. Took 60 questions and a bunch of guesses
That's bizarre. It got Apostoulos Velios in under 20 :mellow:
It got Steven Harper after a dozen or so questions.
It was stumped however by Thomas Steen, which I expected. It was thrown off when it identified him as Swedish and a politician which led it to guess a bunch of Swdish politicians I've never heard of. Steen is of course the Swedish-born former Winnipeg Jets player who is now a Winnipeg City councillor.
I just tried Beckham and it guessed him after 20. Maybe you picked a wrong answer somewhere.
Beaten it with Karl XI of Sweden - even though it asked me if he had a famous son, and showing me Karl XII afterwards. :lol:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 05, 2011, 09:50:02 PM
I just tried Beckham and it guessed him after 20. Maybe you picked a wrong answer somewhere.
Yes there is liable to be some amount of user error.
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Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 06:21:04 PM
There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII. Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that.
Was Mailer a WWII vet?
I believe so. I know Kurt Vonnegut was and he was certainly cynical about war. There were not many people who came back and said "Wow, that was fun!". I know a lot of people just didn't want to talk about it, and tried their hardest to forget what the experienced over there.
That's true about the veterans themselves, but wasn't there a bit of a hero worship for WW2 vets after ther war?
I lolled. :D
Quote from: Syt on November 06, 2011, 03:00:25 AM
That's true about the veterans themselves, but wasn't there a bit of a hero worship for WW2 vets after ther war?
I'm not sure. I think that is more of a modern thing. Since there were vast numbers of Americans who served in the war, it wasn't considered atypical. It was just something that everyone did. I think the hero worship is a modern thing, stemming from a cultural guilt of how poorly Vietnam Vets were treated. There was a lot of propaganda during the war exhorting the virtues of the fighting man, and Hollywood had plenty of material to make films about the war afterword, but as a whole I think most people just wanted things to return to normal.
It does get some pretty obscure characters, e.g. Uthred of Banburgh.
I tried Empress Matilda though and it totally failed and gave up.
Pretty impressive. Found all people I tried but George V of Hanover.
Quote from: Slargos on November 05, 2011, 05:05:15 PM
Took it 20 questions to narrow down Simo Häyhä. Funny little thing.
What? The White Death is one of my heros!
The dude was the greatest!
Pretty impressive, it knows odd Polish journalists... if they have a blog. <_<
though he didn't know Czesław Mozil :P proposed some gay singer instead :lol:
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Pretty impressive, it knows odd Polish journalists... if they have a blog. <_<
though he didn't know Czesław Mozil :P proposed some gay singer instead :lol:
It knew Robert Biedron (although its first guess was Roman Giertych). :lol:
QuoteCharacter already played 192427 times.
:lol:
Hmm, Obama's total isn't quite as impressive after playing Jesus and Guy Who Always Presses Yes, though still the highest I've seen.
It got Margaret Atwood after one wrong guess. The question - "is your charater into politics" threw it off a bit and it selected Christy Clarke the Premier of BC. After that wrong guess it asked if my character was a poltician, when she was over 50 and on that guessed Atwood.
Even this thing knows who Atwood is Neil. :P
Malthus - you might mention Atwood was mistaken for Clarke - and then run.
This thing got Pina Bausch at its first try, after 16 questions.
L.
Found a major shortcoming. It could not name even one of the Crazy Canucks. Fail!!!!
Wow, this things database is huge.
It's quite impressive really. And somewhat addictive. :blush:
Quote from: Tyr on November 05, 2011, 09:34:33 PM
I've tried this before and remember being amazed at it. This time....no. It just can't get David Beckham. Took 60 questions and a bunch of guesses
Seems he always quits on me after 40. :unsure:
The funniest part for me is when you realize the thing begins to get it and asks an obvious question (like, just now, I was thinking of Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood and it asked, out of nowhere, "Has your character ever kissed an alien?"). It's amazing because the questions before that could suggest countless things (a character who heads a group of people, is male and appeared in a tv series).
It didn't get Raistlin Majere but did correctly guess Ranma Saotome and Rand al_thor.
Quote from: Martinus on November 08, 2011, 05:42:46 AM
The funniest part for me is when you realize the thing begins to get it and asks an obvious question (like, just now, I was thinking of Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood and it asked, out of nowhere, "Has your character ever kissed an alien?"). It's amazing because the questions before that could suggest countless things (a character who heads a group of people, is male and appeared in a tv series).
It probably tries to narrow the the most thought of person quickly, I got this after a few questions "Does your character sell women's shoes?", which would lead towards Al Bundy, whereas I was thinking of Tobias Fünke. It got that some 10 questions later though.
Quote from: Tyr on November 05, 2011, 09:34:33 PM
I've tried this before and remember being amazed at it. This time....no. It just can't get David Beckham. Took 60 questions and a bunch of guesses
This seemed unlikely so I tested it and it took less than 10 :hmm:
Took 30 guesses to get Jean Charest, it guess wrongly for Harper after 12 questions too.
I tried the french version & it's has good.
It just asked me if my person was over 400,000 years old(!). I already stated that it was a real person. It was Sakir-Har an obscure Hyksos King. It answered Rameses II, Akhenaten, and finally "Pharaoh".
It asked me out of the blue if the character was Norwegian. Fucker checks IP addresses.
I lost with Lincoln, King Olav and Halldór Laxnes. But I beat the game with Marvin Wiseth former mayor and George Clooney impersonator.
Quote from: Viking on November 08, 2011, 11:27:22 AM
It asked me out of the blue if the character was Norwegian. Fucker checks IP addresses.
I lost with Lincoln, King Olav and Halldór Laxnes. But I beat the game with Marvin Wiseth former mayor and George Clooney impersonator.
It asked me if mine was British on the first one. It asked if my guy had a beard twice, and once a really long beard.
Quote from: Viking on November 08, 2011, 11:27:22 AM
It asked me out of the blue if the character was Norwegian. Fucker checks IP addresses.
Yeah that it does. It almost always asks me if the character is Polish within the first 3-4 questions.
The thing thinks I'm American, and always asks if the character is American.
The thing was stumped by Barney Panofsky (had never heard of him) and Saint Timothy (though it got close, but never guessed the right saint).
Is your character Male ? I don't know.
Is your character Real ? I don't know.
Is your character from Kentucky?
:lol: It's going for Colonel Sanders.
It guessed Croaker of the Black Company.
I think it does a lot better with pop culture figures than historical or literary ones.
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Quote from: Tyr on November 05, 2011, 09:34:33 PM
I've tried this before and remember being amazed at it. This time....no. It just can't get David Beckham. Took 60 questions and a bunch of guesses
This seemed unlikely so I tested it and it took less than 10 :hmm:
He spoke to it in Geordie so it got confused.
Quote from: Barrister on November 08, 2011, 01:47:57 PM
I think it does a lot better with pop culture figures than historical or literary ones.
It nailed Aunt Beru in no time. :lol:
It got Aunt Bee easily.
He got Santa easily even though I said he existed. :)
Guessed Keynes in 20.
Failed on: Piero Sraffa (guessed Gramsci which is sort of close); Joan Robinson (way off on all guesses); and Hyman Minsky (guessed Murary Rothbard(!) and Paul Samuelson).
they got Herman Cain in 43 after guessing Obama and Colin Powell.
Thinking Trotsky
Vlad Tepes after 20
Stalin after 30
Trotsky after 36 questions. The last two were "Does your character have round glasses - Yes", "Was your character murdered - yes".
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 08, 2011, 03:01:00 PM
Guessed Keynes in 20.
Failed on: Piero Sraffa (guessed Gramsci which is sort of close); Joan Robinson (way off on all guesses); and Hyman Minsky (guessed Murary Rothbard(!) and Paul Samuelson).
Well I'll be, it did guess Freidrich Hayek after guessing George Orwell for some odd reason.
Quote from: Viking on November 08, 2011, 03:06:27 PM
they got Herman Cain in 43 after guessing Obama and Colin Powell.
How do you get him not to give up after 40?
It depends on how long the query chain is to arrive at the closest (in its mind) wrong answer. If the chain is already maxed out it won't bother asking more questions, since it wouldn't know what to ask.
Quote from: Barrister on November 08, 2011, 03:12:03 PM
Well I'll be, it did guess Freidrich Hayek after guessing George Orwell for some odd reason.
Hayek won a Nobel - i think it has all of the winners in there.
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Well I'll be, it did guess Freidrich Hayek after guessing George Orwell for some odd reason.
Hayek won a Nobel - i think it has all of the winners in there.
Makes sense. It was floundering around until it asked if my guy had won a Nobel.
Except . . .
did not recognize Gunnar Myrdal, who co-won with Hayek.
Hilariously guessed Ludwig von Mises and Vidkun Quisling. (Myrdal was famously leftist).
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 08, 2011, 03:43:26 PM
Except . . .
did not recognize Gunnar Myrdal, who co-won with Hayek.
Hilariously guessed Ludwig von Mises and Vidkun Quisling. (Myrdal was famously leftist).
:lol: I often confuse Austrians, and Fascists.
Didn't get Nostromo. :(