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August 26, 2004

Help this AI

"20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets."

The game: "Think of an object and the A.I. will try to figure-out what you are thinking by asking simple questions. The object you think of should be something that most people would know about, but, never a specific person, place or thing."

It's pretty good. I thought about the color blue, and it managed to guess the answer in about 20 questions.

Posted by Robin Varghese at 04:23 PM | Permalink

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