Comments on: Twenty Questions

By: ogged

ogged — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It guessed “toaster,” but only after 28 questions. The AI and I had several disagreements about the properties of toasters.

By: A_Steele

A_Steele — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What works well are things that there are many misconceptions about, I fooled it with atom, time, space. The program is pretty good though.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It got me with ‘tire’.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I won with “gluten.”

By: Troutgirl

Troutgirl — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I got it with “gingko tree”—but I was surprised how seemingly random the questions were.

By: Lilypod

Lilypod — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What exactly does “less sanserif” mean?! Like AI, I am guessing many things…

By: zizka

zizka — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Won with weeds and “toilet water” (obsolete commodity for women sort of like perfume or cologne”.) Choosing very obscure names is probably cheating. Lost with sawdust.

Even the late questions were random. After it knew it was a liquid it asked non-liquid questions.

By: Magik Johnson

Magik Johnson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I can win every time, mere mortals. Three for three on:

smallpox
gastroenterology
marketing

The last is a paticularly shameful failure, although it brought me the pleasure of responding “yes” to the question “Is it annoying?”

Be creative! How about inference? Affluence? It is very weak on questions that explore abstract concepts. myopia. prestidigitation. verdigris. amplitude.

Work it!

-Magik

By: Rana

Rana — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I won with toilet paper and straight pins.

I had to crack up when the questions for the first included “is it multicolored?” followed by “can you use it in a church?”

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Rana puzzles me. I beat it with an archbishop, but I wasn’t asked if I could use it in a church, although I admitted it was multi-coloured. If it had asked that question, it might have won.