He got Ryu and ... Joan of Arc X_X Going to try again

And Catherine the Great wtf X_X ...

He was able to get Deng XiaoPing too ... Bah I should've thought of Zhou Enlai instead X_X

And damnit how did he know I was talking about Cao Cao =( =( =(!!!

KawaiiRice

United States2914 Posts

July 22 2010 22:55 GMT

#762

Got Flash o_o'' wow

Edit: LOL, it guessed nana mizuki right :D

Malgrif

Canada1095 Posts

July 22 2010 22:56 GMT

#763

wooooooah, first he guessed my super man, and i'm like eh that's too ez. so i tried a more obscure character, he guessed batgirl and guess fucken what. it was batgirl

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

July 22 2010 22:56 GMT

#764

On July 23 2010 07:46 mmp wrote:
He got Geno.

+ Show Spoiler +

He got Mallow, too.

anch

United States5457 Posts

July 22 2010 22:58 GMT

#765

I let him guess Taiwanese show actors, he got close.
But he got the ex-president right.

Leeto

United States1320 Posts

July 22 2010 23:03 GMT

#766

This thing just got shrodinger's cat. Pretty crazy.

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

July 22 2010 23:09 GMT

#767

lol Apparently he can guess IdrA.

SnK-Arcbound

United States4423 Posts

July 22 2010 23:09 GMT

#768

Missed Rosie, he guessed Shar. Got Sarah Palin. Got Abraham Lincoln. Missed Teddy, he guessed taft. This is fun.

And he guessed IdrA. One of the questions was "Is he a sex maniac." Sorry, no way I can know that answer unless he said so on the forums.

Skee

Canada702 Posts

July 22 2010 23:12 GMT

#769

How did he get Toweleeie from South Park.

Biochemist

United States1008 Posts

July 22 2010 23:13 GMT

#770

He got John Paul Jones... but based on the types of questions he was still asking at 20, I didn't think he was that close. Other period military leaders probably stand a better chance.

I kicked his ass with Serapis. Apparently if you pick an obscure category and pick an even more obscure character (they created this god when trying to merge Hellenistic and Egyptian mythology in Alexandria), it's pretty easy to go 40 rounds with him. Serapis wasn't even on the list of possibles at the end.

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

July 22 2010 23:15 GMT

#771

On July 23 2010 08:09 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
Missed Rosie, he guessed Shar. Got Sarah Palin. Got Abraham Lincoln. Missed Teddy, he guessed taft. This is fun.

And he guessed IdrA. One of the questions was "Is he a sex maniac." Sorry, no way I can know that answer unless he said so on the forums.

Well, it depends on how Akinator defines sex. If he means the concept of sex, then the answer is yes. If it is the practice of sex, then...No.

luckySe7en

148 Posts

July 22 2010 23:16 GMT

#772

anyone who knows anything about programming will know that a program like this would be extremely easy to write.

each answer has x options, so after 20 answers, he can discriminate between x^20 results.

Probably every time he gets something wrong, he'll ask you the right answer, and update his databases.

each person in his database is stored with the 20 answers associated with that person. easy peazy lemon squeezy.

MangoTango

United States3670 Posts

July 22 2010 23:17 GMT

#773

On July 23 2010 08:16 luckySe7en wrote:
anyone who knows anything about programming will know that a program like this would be extremely easy to write.

each answer has x options, so after 20 answers, he can discriminate between x^20 results.

Probably every time he gets something wrong, he'll ask you the right answer, and update his databases.

each person in his database is stored with the 20 answers associated with that person. easy peazy lemon squeezy.

It probably also "learns" by asking new questions about people who are already in the database.

BlueSorc

United Kingdom119 Posts

July 22 2010 23:19 GMT

#774

He got Bisu. This impressed me, so I thought I'd try harder...

And he got Sean "Day[9]" Plott.

Wow. Just, wow.

Manit0u

Poland17450 Posts

July 22 2010 23:19 GMT

#775

Yeah, Tywin Lannister owned him (he thought it was Eddard Stark), even though he has him in his memory.

Telcontar

United Kingdom16710 Posts

July 22 2010 23:23 GMT

#776

holy moley he guessed correctly Turin Turambar from the Silmarillion. very impressed

jgju

United States454 Posts

July 22 2010 23:24 GMT

#777

He got Shane MacGowan and Karen O.

I flipped a bitch when he got Lim Yo Hwan too (I can't imagine how he was able to tell him apart from any other progamer- black hair, korean, works with computers, etc.)

I tried Bisu too, but it guessed JD first, and then got it right on the second try ("Is your character famed for his beauty?" being the key question).

ClanOverdosed

691 Posts

July 22 2010 23:24 GMT

#778

Wow lol he was able to guess himself pretty easily

Rawr.Zeta

Japan39 Posts

July 22 2010 23:26 GMT

#779

Lol Jim raynor was his 30 question mark! He guessed Mengsk first!

B1nary

Canada1267 Posts

July 22 2010 23:37 GMT

#780

Well, we're given 5 options but most of the time, it's probably closer to 2 options per question: Yes or No. An "I don't know" doesn't help it much when narrowing down the choices. So given 20 question, it should be able to distinguish between just over 1 000 000 characters.

Also, there's no way it can be a perfect binary search tree. Like, asking "Is your character an adult male" doesn't necessarily divide the remaining options 50/50.

My best guess would be that it first asks a series (maybe 4 or 5) of preprogrammed questions that are pretty much guaranteed to narrow it down to an acceptable range. Then, within the remaining options, it picks questions that are closest to dividing them 50/50. A lot of potential for clever database and search algorithms.