Thursday, May 26, 2005

Twenty Questions!

Anyone come across this neural network 20 questions game? It's slightly eerie how it successfully guesses what you're thinking about: http://www.20q.net

3 comments:

  1. that's pretty good.

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  2. wow. it got very close in 18, but didn't get it right until 22. ('antelope')

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  3. The disconcerting thing is that it can make a correct guess without seeming to have closed in on the answer. For instance, it guessed my 'pterodactyl', but hadn't ascertained that it was extinct or that it could fly. I thought it was getting nowhere, when it suddenly made its correct guess on 17 questions, as if it was reading my mind!

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