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Akinator, AKA WHAT THE HELL GET OUT OF MY MIND

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  • RikushixRikushix VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Piers Anthony characters have all stumped it. Which just goes to show. It is not a 12 year old boy sitting with a computer terminal in a Chinese room.

    I would rather we pretend that Piers Anthony never existed.

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    There are....

    a LOT of pornstars in this thing.

    Everytime I stump it, like half the options at the end are pornstars.

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  • EgoEgo Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    There are....

    a LOT of pornstars in this thing.

    Everytime I stump it, like half the options at the end are pornstars.

    And that's how you can tell this thing is on the internet :).

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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Man if I teach this thing any more Canadian personalities it's going to be wearing a toque and plaid jacket and popping out of a stubby beer bottle soon.

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  • thisisntwallythisisntwally Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    several guesses and many questions to get Captain Nemo.
    Of course I'm in the middle of reading The Mysterious Island, so I know some obscure shit about the man

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  • useless4useless4 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Ego wrote: »
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    There are....

    a LOT of pornstars in this thing.

    Everytime I stump it, like half the options at the end are pornstars.

    And that's how you can tell this thing is on the internet :).

    It gets midget porn stars the first time but not blond ones.

    If you are ever up against this skynet style remember that.

    ooooh I have to try skynet.

    damn it, first try with some twisted artistic painting of skynet even.

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  • CycloneRangerCycloneRanger Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Muramasa18 wrote: »
    It got Seananners pretty quickly. I beat it with the king of Qin from Hero, although it did get Jet Li's character.
    The king of Qin in that movie is Qin Shi Huang, whom Akinator guessed for me (on his second try).

    I think he was confused by my answering that he had appeared in several popular video games--which he has (Civilization series; perhaps others).

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Rikushix wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    Piers Anthony characters have all stumped it. Which just goes to show. It is not a 12 year old boy sitting with a computer terminal in a Chinese room.

    I would rather we pretend that Piers Anthony never existed.

    A sentiment apparently shared by Akinator.

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  • CycloneRangerCycloneRanger Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Just for shits and giggles I went with Jim Kirk. Akinator narrowed it down to "starship captains from Star Trek who are white and not bald" in 7 or 8 questions and then proceeded to ask all kinds of weird shit, such as "is your character a manga artist? for the remaining 12 questions. In the end it guessed Kirk, of course.

    Strange.

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Just for shits and giggles I went with Jim Kirk. Akinator narrowed it down to "starship captains from Star Trek who are white and not bald" in 7 or 8 questions and then proceeded to ask all kinds of weird shit, such as "is your character a manga artist? for the remaining 12 questions. In the end it guessed Kirk, of course.

    Strange.

    I'm pretty sure it'll always ask at least 20 questions, so if it's sure it starts asking random shit where it doesn't know the answer for that character, to build up the database.

    EDIT: er, nevermind, it just got the kid from Limbo in 15 questions.

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  • CycloneRangerCycloneRanger Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Aioua wrote: »
    Just for shits and giggles I went with Jim Kirk. Akinator narrowed it down to "starship captains from Star Trek who are white and not bald" in 7 or 8 questions and then proceeded to ask all kinds of weird shit, such as "is your character a manga artist? for the remaining 12 questions. In the end it guessed Kirk, of course.

    Strange.

    I'm pretty sure it'll always ask at least 20 questions, so if it's sure it starts asking random shit where it doesn't know the answer for that character, to build up the database.
    Yeah, this was my interpretation, too. Either it's throwing out very strange corner-case answers (possibly entered by trolls) or it's just looking for free information once it knows what I'm guessing.

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  • useless4useless4 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I don't think it always ask 20 questions. But you can almost see the moment it guesses and starts to toy with you.

    "Does she lead a group?" "Does she fight for love and justice?" (Sailor Moon)
    "Does she kill people?" "Is she isreali?" NCIS character

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor changed Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    useless4 wrote: »
    I don't think it always ask 20 questions. But you can almost see the moment it guesses and starts to toy with you.

    "Does she lead a group?" "Does she fight for love and justice?" (Sailor Moon)
    "Does she kill people?" "Is she isreali?" NCIS character

    I think it's just randomly trying to gather more data (or verify existing data) on the person since it think's it knows who it is. Hit 'last games' real fast after you're done and click on their name in the list. You can see which questions were 'new' for that character if the expected response was "?"

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  • Jebus314Jebus314 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    It didn't know kara gabriel or brenna brahe. Although it did guess the akinators wife, with an I dream of genie type picture.

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  • PataPata Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Was thinking of Sain, from Fire Emblem.

    "Does he wear a headband"
    "Does he ride an animal?"
    "Is he from Fire Emblem?" I go craappp

    "Guy!"

    ...OK....

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    He didn't get it right on the first guess but after a few more questions he nailed Monica Bellucci.

    Cade on
  • CycloneRangerCycloneRanger Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I'm consistently impressed at how I can tread the boundaries of what I think it ought to be able to guess and still I end up staring at the correct answer a few seconds later.

    I mean, I could pick someone really obscure and go with it--but that wouldn't be much fun.

    I just played Norman Borlaug and it took two tries--first guess was Carl Sagan.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Cade wrote: »
    He didn't get it right on the first guess but after a few more questions he nailed Monica Bellucci.
    Hey oooooooo

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Stumped it with Nellie Bly, but she was already on the list so I may have answered a few of the questions oddly.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Not so good at non-European or American scientists. Didn't get Hideki Yukawa at all.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Couldn't Alan Turing. Went through Einstein and Bertrand Russel, then stumped.

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  • The Muffin ManThe Muffin Man Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    useless4 wrote: »
    I don't think it always ask 20 questions. But you can almost see the moment it guesses and starts to toy with you.

    "Does she lead a group?" "Does she fight for love and justice?" (Sailor Moon)
    "Does she kill people?" "Is she isreali?" NCIS character

    "He'll never get Hourman!"
    "Does he only have superpowers for one hour at a time?"
    "Oh fuck you."

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    useless4 wrote: »
    I don't think it always ask 20 questions. But you can almost see the moment it guesses and starts to toy with you.

    "Does she lead a group?" "Does she fight for love and justice?" (Sailor Moon)
    "Does she kill people?" "Is she isreali?" NCIS character

    "He'll never get Hourman!"
    "Does he only have superpowers for one hour at a time?"
    "Oh fuck you."
    I love when it does that and then gets it wrong anyway.

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Stumped it on michio kaku but his name was on already listed.

    So far I've only added 1 character to the list.

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  • Kristmas KthulhuKristmas Kthulhu Currently Kultist Kthulhu Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Edward Teach and Dirk the Daring were both guessed by him. It's so fucking weird/cool when it starts making such specific questions as "Does he have a distinguishing feature on his face?"

    YES, IT'S FUCKING BLACKBEARD.

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  • CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    In my effort to get Nefarian from WoW, which it got at 30, at 20 it guessed Deathwing, Nef's dad.

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  • CJTheranCJTheran Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Is your character real? Yes.

    Is your character a goblin? ...

    Edit:

    Ahahaha it got Sollux yesssss. While guessing Sollux, after determining he was a glasses wearing, bipedal, non-white horned male, it asked if he was associated with horses.

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  • SurikoSuriko AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I like playing with abstract concepts like: "my ideal wife" or "the robot version of me from the planet cybertron"

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The robot version of me from Cybertron:

    First guess: Norm Spellman (from Avatar)
    Second guess: Trollface (internet)
    Third guess: Your own character (Your Original Character)

    Then it said my ideal wife is Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the prostitute who exposed Eliot Spitzer.

    Ok, whatever, fine, fuck you. I'm done with this.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    L-shaped tetromino. It asked some crazy questions, and I was telling my brother as he was watching, "No way this goddamned thing is getting it."

    It got it.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2011
    Charles de Gaulle in 15 questions. Wow.

    Weird, it said that the expected answer to "Has your character killed humans?" is "no, when I answered "probably."

    I mean he was a WWI vet that had been a POW and wounded more than once, I think an outright "no" is a stretch.

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  • StarcrossStarcross Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    CJTheran wrote: »
    Is your character real? Yes.

    Is your character a goblin? ...

    Edit:

    Ahahaha it got Sollux yesssss. While guessing Sollux, after determining he was a glasses wearing, bipedal, non-white horned male, it asked if he was associated with horses.

    I was doing Karkat. I knew it had it when it asked "Does your character get angry easily?"

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  • CantideCantide Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    It guessed Ronald McDonald at 20, but it figured out I was thinking of Levi Johnston at 30.

    Took it 40 to get Rosencrantz. I was wondering which one of the two it would pick.

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  • areaarea Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Both of Thursday Next and Littlefoot in 20 questions. Pretty good.

    EDIT: Wow, Gorwen from Through the Dragon's Eye in 20 questions, which is a British educational serial from 1989.

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  • Coup de ChapeauCoup de Chapeau Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Guessed correctly in twenty questions: Barton Fink, Dream of the Endless, Max Cohen (Pi), Wayne Coyne

    It guessed incorrectly when I was thinking of Jan Švankmajer and Salvador Dali, in both cases giving me people I've never heard of.
    The one for Dali must have been relatively close, though, as he could be chosen from the list.
    I chose to show forgiveness and think of Wayne twice. The first time it incorrectly guessed Justin Timberlake, because I was asked if Wayne Coyne has "ever been in movies" and answered "yes" for Christmas on Mars. After that, acting became the main focus and the previous questions concerning being a musician were mostly forgotten.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Holy shit it got Mitch Hedberg.

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  • Chrono HelixChrono Helix Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Failed to guess False King, Maneater and octopus guard from Demon's Souls. I thought he was getting close to Maneater when he was asking about green skin, wings and a tail.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Failed to guess the prince from the forgettable shitty epic fantasy 80s movie Krull

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