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!

  • Skelectus
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    148 months ago

    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!

  • @logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    128 months ago

    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.

  • @nogooduser@lemmy.world
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    128 months ago

    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?”

    • @Damaskox@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      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.

  • @AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    8 months ago

    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.