In case you’ve never seen it before, you should try playing the Twenty Questions Game. That’s a pretty amazing little computer algorithm they have going on there! I played it several times today, and the only thing that stumped it was “carpet padding” because carpet padding wasn’t in its database. It guessed “carpeting” and “wall-to-wall carpeting”, but that’s not quite the right thing 🙂 I added my little entry.
Give it a try… it’s almost spooky. Did you stump it with anything?
By the way: Happy Birthday, Mom! She’ll kill me for this, but Shirley’s fifty-six this year. Call me if you’d like to extend birthday wishes, and I’ll give you her number…
Holy Crap!
That thing is amazing! ——– Visit my blog, eh! The Murphy Maphia
Creeped me out
Yeah. It creeped me out. I tried “penis”, and eventually it told me I was a sick freak and that it didn’t play like that.
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Matthew P. Barnson
HAHAHA
You said penis. That’s funny. ——– Visit my blog, eh! The Murphy Maphia
Too much time
It’s pretty obvious Matt has way too much time on his hands. I thought for sure he’d tell you that he thought of a booger and it guessed it!
What else is there to do to bide the time of unemployment? —
Christy
I stumped it
I stumped it with “ballot”. ——– Visit my blog, eh! The Murphy Maphia
Stumpers
Yeah, I’ve found that anything which requires specialized knowledge, or is not something people interact with on a daily basis, doesn’t seem to work well. For instance, it didn’t get “aeleron”, and it had some difficulty with the computer language “Perl”. It eventually guessed “a programming language” and, well, since Perl is a programming language, the game ended there.
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Matthew P. Barnson
–That thing is lot’s of fun.
–That thing is lot’s of fun. When I was thinking of a photograph it tried guessing a tarot card. It eventually got it after 25 ?’s. However it disagreed with alot of my answers, so really it would have gotten it in like 17. Cool! Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer