Akinator

[fechtbuch]

An online genie who plays a kind of twenty questions - because the world needs more internet time sinks. Uncanny when he gets it right, and it's interesting how it gets feedback so the more people play the more accurate its future guesses will be.

Comments

[skyring]

Wow!

Took the whole twenty guesses, but picked Peter Garrett. Mind you, his career's dead.

[killimengri]

He got mine wrong! After that, the site refused to work! at least for me

[fechtbuch]

One brilliant part of the design is that if you beat him with a person he's never heard of (yeah, I know it's not really a "he"), he asks you for their name. Which means that if you play along every character that has ever been thought of by anyone playing the game will be in the database, along with a set of answers that matches them. So it will only get better at its job. Thanks to me it now knows about WWII pilot "Sailor" Malan, Judge Anderson, and Captain Kronos, vampire hunter.