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'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 15:22
by FlyTexas
A clever little online guessing game. Think of a character and Akinator will (probably) guess who it is. Kinda fun.
http://www.akinator.mobi/us
Brian
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 16:04
by dodger
Hi Brian,
Yup, very good ,he got 10 out of 10, uncanny!!
Cheers,
Roger.
PS, congratulations to the colonies today.
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 19:06
by FlyTexas
It's definitely entertaining isn't it Roger?
I thought I'd put it to the test using "Fatty" Arbuckle, a silent film actor/comedian here in the US in the 1920's. The crazy thing guessed it in about 14 guesses.
Brian
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 20:28
by Tako_Kichi
It solved everything I threw at it (and I tried to be obscure, it even got Douglas Bader right in less than 20 goes) but my wife got it stumped. Possibly because when it asked 'Is your character American' she said no as he was born in Canada but he has since adopted American citizenship too. It gave her another Canadian hockey player instead.
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 20:36
by Garry Russell
It got Eric Morcombe right after a second try...thought it was Bob Monkhouse
All the others I tried it found straight off
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 21:22
by Tako_Kichi
Having played with it on and off during the afternoon I finally got it stumped (pun intended) when it failed to find my character. It finally came up with a list of about 30 names and asked me if it was one of those, if not then I could add the name to the database. It wasn't there so I added it.
My character? Muttiah (Murali) Muralitharan
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 22:08
by simondix
Did three. Got the first one but not the second two although when I typed in the names they were there.
1. Richard 1
2. Ernest Gann
3. Robert Service
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 22:14
by Garry Russell
Tako_Kichi wrote:My character? Muttiah (Murali) Muralitharan
Ah yes..him
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 04 Jul 2011, 23:18
by nigelb
Amusing - got the obvious ones like Churchill, Lennon, Elgar easily but then Katy Kay came on the news so I tried her and Akinator was stumped.
Nigel²
Tried again with Fiona Bruce and Akinator got her very quickly! She happens to be my third cousin, one time removed, although I am certain she has no clue about that. I discovered that a few months ago when I was researching my ancestry. She even did a televison show (Who Do You Think You Are) on William Crouch, one of our common ancestors who was a bit of a rogue.
Re: 'Akinator' Knows All
Posted: 05 Jul 2011, 00:31
by Tako_Kichi
Garry Russell wrote:Tako_Kichi wrote:My character? Muttiah (Murali) Muralitharan
Ah yes..him
Well if you were a fan of leather on willow you would know him very well. Multiple world record holding Sri Lankan spin bowler.