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The Akinator Genie (en.akinator.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Damaskox@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
 

If you know the 20 questions -social (party) game, this is kinda the computer version of that. He can guess a character, and object or an animal. If he cannot guess what's on your mind, you can teach it to him!

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[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was the thing some 10 or 15 years ago.

Its abilities are uncanny.

Edit: It got these right:

  • Klunk from ratchet 3
  • Ano Turtiainen, a local nutjob politician
  • Boris Johnson
  • Andrei Ulmeyda from Killer7
  • Pepsiman
  • Hammond from Dead Space
  • Crocomire from Super Metroid
  • Nick Knatterton
  • Mike Ehrmanwhatever from Breaking Bad
  • Sopsy, the owner of a local imageboard
  • Raikov from metal gear

I'm still able to consistently win with anything more obscure than this.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I remember someone finding this at work like 15 years ago. It was a slow day and we just took turns trying to stump it. Fun times!

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that it was fucking with me. I chose Aladdin and it really didn’t seem like it was going to get it until question 19 “does your character like flying on carpets?”

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've noticed that sometimes he gets very close quickly but then drifts away to other questions that seem less relevant. But I don't mind this myself.
The excitement stays, whether he will guess what I think about or not - I don't mind answering 60 questions or even 100.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an ancient project. At some point in the past, I went to this site and it was intentionally broken by its developers, such that it would only guess from a small subset of possible targets, and if your character was outside of that, it would act like it knew the answer, but wouldn't say unless you gave them money.

I don't know if that's changed since then, because that experience ruined it for me, and I won't be going back there.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money?? I've never seen that happen, at least not on the computer browser. This is the first time I hear about this.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I say "money", but it was some sort of subscription. Like, become an X member and unlock the entire game sort of thing.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay. Well, I never saw any indications of this.
The previous time I used Akinator maybe 1-2 months ago.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was probably over 5 years ago.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nice that there are changes towards positivity as well!

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Curse you! This is addictive. I stumped it three times:

Fin Raziel.
Paula Anton.
Alice Three Times.

I got it past 20 all but twice. It got Kathleen Kelly and D.C. at 20 and 19, respectively.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At this time of the year - see, how many things related to Halloween it can guess?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They had little hand held digital device for this back in the late 90's, like a tomagatchi. It was super cool. My wife found one at the thrift store a few months ago and we played with it for a few days. It was able to guess correctly about 95% of the time.