It’s Smarter Than Most People I Meet
This artificial intelligence engine is better at 20 questions than most humans. (For example, when we tried it, it correctly guessed “label,” but not “comedian.”)
We’ve come a long way since ELIZA.
From ThinkGeek by way of AlphaJoker:
Robin Burgener, the inventor of 20q started working on 20Q in 1988, with the game running on a 5/14 inch floppy disk. Now 20q is online and over 10,000 games are played each day – increasing the sophistication of the 20q network on a daily basis. The artificial intelligence behind the game is a neural-network, similar to a human brain. A brain, or neural-network, is built from neurons connected by synaptic connections.
A human brain has about one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000) synaptic connections. The 20q.net online version currently has about ten million (10,000,000)…. The game uses the neural-network to choose the next question as well as deciding what to guess.
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