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what famous person are you thinking of?

def chrisdef chris
edited August 2010 in Chit chat
this prog will guess... asking 20 yes/no questions

http://us.akinator.com/

spookily accurate!

(the type name+age thing at the start is not like registering)
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    I took 40 questions to get it right, I thought of someone quite unlikely.

    Quentin Crisp :lol:

    I wouldn't of if it wasn't for the Hurricane Higgins is dead thread.

    EDIT: Defeated him on my second go, I knew he wouldn't get it, and he didn't. So I introduced the new character to him, but I won't do that again.

    Can't go making it easier for it to win :D
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  • GrazGraz
    edited August 2010
    44 Questions to Guess, "Will Hay" Not bad. I didn't realise he was born in the 1800s! Silly me!

    (I wonder if it knows Jonathan Cauldwell?)
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited August 2010
    gave me Peter Sellers, I was thinking of Arthur Askey
  • GrazGraz
    edited August 2010
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    gave me Peter Sellers, I was thinking of Arthur Askey

    Yeah, it gave me Sid James first, then Peter Sellers. It got mine right on the 3rd attempt.
  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    i thought of clive barker, got philip pullman went on a bit after and it got it.

    quite good.

    clive sinclair - got peter molyneux, bill gates, steve jobs. it must have forgotton i said he was english or something.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2010
    I tried Chuck Mosley (thought I'd give it a real test hehe)... it couldn't get it, but it came close (Mike Patton). :grin:
  • SokurahSokurah
    edited August 2010
    It gave me Peter Sellers too, when I was thinking of Cary Grant, but it got it eventually.
    It also guessed Winona Ryder & Chloe Moretz in under 20 guesses.

    Now I'll see what obscure person I can come up with to defeat it. :)


    Edit: It gave up when trying to guess Bruce Greenwood. It already knew him but I think I threw it off by answering that he's not American. He's Canadian. HAH, take that impressive genie. :D
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited August 2010
    I played twice, and was thinking of David Bellamy.

    The first time it chose Bill Oddie which is not far off the mark.

    The second time it chose Michael Parkinson.


    :lol:
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  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited August 2010
    I just beat him with Charlton Heston!

    first time I thought of Kate Beckinsale and it gave me Rhona Mitra!

    other times it was spot on!
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited August 2010
    beaten with Salman Rushdie

    first guesses were Terry Pratchett and Ian McEwan, getting close, but the last guess, God, was a bit off.
  • Tom GaleTom Gale
    edited August 2010
    Damn it got David Bowie and H P lovecraft first time!
  • Tom GaleTom Gale
    edited August 2010
    I just tried Jesus. Question number 4 was "Is your character the son of God?" to which I answered yes. It then asked me 12 more questions before guessing right. These included "does your character love meat?".
  • Tom GaleTom Gale
    edited August 2010
    bloody hell - it just got Michael Ball.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    It got mine in 20..Katy Perry.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2010
    hmm seems to be not working quite as well with a few of you then!

    I still think it's pretty good considering...gets most of the ones I tried in under 20

    It got DB Cooper, and it got Ken Barlow from coronation street in 20 but I swear from the questions it asked, I could've been thinking of any male soap star over 50

    mile wrote: »

    clive sinclair - got peter molyneux, bill gates, steve jobs. it must have forgotton i said he was english or something.
    strange I tried clive sinclair yesterday and it got it almost straight away
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited August 2010
    I'm winning 3-1 at the mo. It didn't get Cedric Bixler-Zavala or Jay Kay, but it got Omar Rodriguez Lopez straight away (hey, that rhymes...).
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited August 2010
    went for John Travolta, it showed me a picture of a donkey suspended in the air from a cart that was too heavy

    just tried Olivia Newton John and it gave me Madonna

    at last it got one, Chewbacca
  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    i was thinking of DM-boozefreek, and it came up with graham norton.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Mao Zedong in 20 questions...maybe you loons not getting the right guesses are answering the questions wrong.
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited August 2010
    mile wrote: »
    i was thinking of DM-boozefreek, and it came up with graham norton.

    :lol:
  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    fred west - 30 questions. it tried giving me sweeny todd at first, even though i said the character wasn't fictional.

    miner willy - 20 questions

    dizzy - 16 questions
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    mile wrote: »
    i was thinking of DM-boozefreek, and it came up with graham norton.

    Funny when I thought of Mile it came up with Peter Sutcliffe, must be a Yorkshire thing?
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  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Funny when I thought of Mile it came up with Peter Sutcliffe, must be a Yorkshire thing?

    100 marks for originality there. :p


    honestly i was gonna do sutcliffe instead of fred west, but it'd spoil your joke. ;)
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    So let me get this straight...

    I was thinking of Katy Perry.

    Mile was thinking of Boozy

    and boozy was thinking of mile.

    ....and the computer thing picked Graham Norton in the miles/boozy mix...
  • milemile
    edited August 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    So let me get this straight...

    I was thinking of Katy Perry.

    Mile was thinking of Boozy

    and boozy was thinking of mile.

    ....and the computer thing picked Graham Norton in the miles/boozy mix...

    and no one was thinking of you, how sad. :p
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited August 2010
    mile wrote: »
    and no one was thinking of you, how sad. :p

    I thought I'd be Mr. Nice guy and see if it could guess Beanz, alas 56 questions and all he could come up with was Wayne Sleep :D
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    What the...
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited August 2010
    wayne sleep went to the same primary school as me (way before my time tho')

    not the greatest claim to fame ever tbh

    this thing just guessed 'Finchy' from The Office in 20! it's good.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2010
    Can we move on from Graham Norton and Wayne sleep talk please...it's starting to get disturbing.
  • RalfRalf
    edited August 2010
    I just tried Jesus. Question number 4 was "Is your character the son of God?" to which I answered yes. It then asked me 12 more questions before guessing right. These included "does your character love meat?".

    It knew with about 95% that you meant Jesus.

    But it had a lot of spare questions that it could use up for other purposes.

    There is some 5% that you meant son of some Greek god in mythology or maybe Elvis? :)

    And I think that the alghoritm works these way:

    If program knows almost for sure that you mean Jesus it stops guessing and uses the questions to make its database more complete

    It has thousands of questions like

    * is your character from Japanese manga?
    * is your character wearing a wig?
    * is your character a good fighter?

    If it never asks if Jesus was a fighter, it will never know it. And there is always some possibility that some yet untested question will better identify Jesus than "son of god" one.
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