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July 20, 2003

Web Site Voodoo

I found this site from a link from Squidfingers a few months ago and just came across it again, so I thought I’d post it here.

It’s a game of 20 questions that you play with a computer AI. The more people play it, the more it learns, and it is absolutely astounding how good it is at the game. Out of the 100 or so things I have asked it, it’s probably gotten 95% of them correct in under 20 questions, and even if it doesn’t, it gets it in the next few after 20. I’ve only completely stumped it about 2 times.

20 questions

Posted by derek at July 20, 2003 02:01 PM | TrackBack

Comments

That totally freaked me out.. Any explanations?

Posted by: cmwillis at July 25, 2003 07:35 PM

It’s just an artificial intelligence thing that learns the more you play it. When it guesses the answer and you tell it it was correct, it just logs that I guess somehow, and learns from its mistakes as well.

Like I said, Voodoo. :)

Posted by: Derek at July 25, 2003 07:44 PM