Games @lemmy.world Damaskox @lemmy.world 8mo ago

The Akinator Genie

If you know the 20 questions -social (party) game, this is kinda the computer version of that. He can guess a character, and object or an animal. If he cannot guess what's on your mind, you can teach it to him!

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This was the thing some 10 or 15 years ago.

Its abilities are uncanny.

Edit: It got these right:

Klunk from ratchet 3

Ano Turtiainen, a local nutjob politician

Boris Johnson

Andrei Ulmeyda from Killer7

Pepsiman

Hammond from Dead Space

Crocomire from Super Metroid

Nick Knatterton

Mike Ehrmanwhatever from Breaking Bad

Sopsy, the owner of a local imageboard

Raikov from metal gear

I'm still able to consistently win with anything more obscure than this.
I remember someone finding this at work like 15 years ago. It was a slow day and we just took turns trying to stump it. Fun times!
This is an ancient project. At some point in the past, I went to this site and it was intentionally broken by its developers, such that it would only guess from a small subset of possible targets, and if your character was outside of that, it would act like it knew the answer, but wouldn't say unless you gave them money.

I don't know if that's changed since then, because that experience ruined it for me, and I won't be going back there.
- Money?? I've never seen that happen, at least not on the computer browser. This is the first time I hear about this.
  
  I say "money", but it was some sort of subscription. Like, become an X member and unlock the entire game sort of thing.
I think that it was fucking with me. I chose Aladdin and it really didn’t seem like it was going to get it until question 19 “does your character like flying on carpets?”
- I've noticed that sometimes he gets very close quickly but then drifts away to other questions that seem less relevant. But I don't mind this myself.
  The excitement stays, whether he will guess what I think about or not - I don't mind answering 60 questions or even 100.
Curse you! This is addictive. I stumped it three times:

Fin Raziel.
Paula Anton.
Alice Three Times.

I got it past 20 all but twice. It got Kathleen Kelly and D.C. at 20 and 19, respectively.
At this time of the year - see, how many things related to Halloween it can guess?
They had little hand held digital device for this back in the late 90's, like a tomagatchi. It was super cool. My wife found one at the thrift store a few months ago and we played with it for a few days. It was able to guess correctly about 95% of the time.

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