It’s getting better, maybe. Before I read your post it guessed Paul Atreides in about 10.
It’s just creepy. I’m thinking Mr. Bean and on question 9, “Is your character mostly silent?” Also guessed Clippy from MS Word really quickly and Case from Neuromancer on a second chance.
It definitely improves/learns over time.
It got Cecil Adams on a second guess this time (after about 27 questions)
It got both Frogger (video game character) and Q-Bert (another video game character) fairly quickly. Damn.
It took 40 questions and 3 tries to guess John Holmes. The first 2 guesses were Jeff Goldblum and Harvey Milk.:dubious:
Hmmm…it didn’t get Peter Jackson, but then it gave me a list to pick from and he was in it, but there wasn’t any submit button, anyone else had that?
I was confused too. You click the checkbox next to the name, and then click the name itself. A bit of crummy UI.
The game will make a guess after 20, 30, and 40 questions, even if it isn’t sure. If it makes a guess at some other interval, you can be sure it’s narrowed in pretty closely.
Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shankar both on the first guess.
Couldn’t guess “the sceptical environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg (though his name was on the list to click afterwards), and missed 8-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen as well.
It didn’t get Rae Dawn Chong
It got Peter North pretty darn quickly
I got the Android app since it wouldn’t let me go to the website, but it’s still pretty awesome.
It took 30 questions to get Abu from Aladdin. (It guessed Bambi’s dad and the Caterpillar in James and the Giant Peach.)
Then it got Abu in 17 asking a few different questions.
It got Caractacus Pott in 20, Chunk from Goonies in about 15, and Slimey the Worm (Sesame Street) in 18. Holy Cow!
I can’t believe it. It actually got the spinning dancer/ballerina from the ad that was beside it (in about 8 questions).
Hah, stumped it with Akira Takasaki, the guitar player from Loudness. It kept asking “is your guitar player from Sweden?”…
And stumped it again with Bob Castellini, owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
Couldn’y get Andrew Vachss or Burke, but did get Kinky Friedman in 17 guesses.
Quoth spark240:
Again, the only way it has of knowing the relationships between questions is by actually asking them. That’s not the system being broken; that’s the system working exactly as it’s designed to.
Quoth Tengu:
Certainly, there will be cases where the answers to those questions will be different, but when you’ve already said “yes” to “does the character live in the US”, then the answer to “is the character an American citizen” will almost always also be “yes”, and so there will usually be better questions to choose from. Even if, say, it had narrowed it down to the cast of The Big Bang Theory (where the citizenship question would tell you whether it was Raj), it could have gotten just as much mileage from asking something like “does your character have difficulties with speaking”, which could apply to a lot of other folks, or even just guessing “I am thinking of Raj Koothrapali”. And it could have gotten more information from “Are you the main character of your show”, which would have separated Leonard and Shelden from Raj and Howard.
I stumped it with Ugarte from Casablanca (Peter Lorre’s character), but it got Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, despite not asking any questions that I thought narrowed down the choices much at all.
Got Hodor on the 2nd guess. HODOR HODOR HODOR.
Fo those who haven’t noticed it the “Details” section after a right answer is very interesting.
I tossed obscure comic villains at it until I stumped it with Killer Frost (what, nobody reads Firestorm?), then stumped it twice in a row with Wavy the Crocodile and William Charles Macready.
Interestingly, of the three, Wavy was the only one it had previously seen. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has quite a few different answer sets for him, given that you could answer based on his fictional life in the swamps of Louisiana, or his actual existence as a piece of cloth on Craig Ferguson’s hand.