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Date: Thursday, 17 July 2003 05:50 (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, 17 July 2003 06:09 (UTC)*tries it*
www.20q.net
Date: Thursday, 17 July 2003 06:20 (UTC)*looks*
Ah, according to http://www.20q.net/gamespot.html, it's "a test of the next generation 20Q A.I.".
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Date: Thursday, 17 July 2003 06:39 (UTC)no subject
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Date: Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:14 (UTC)At least, after I discovered that it only accept descriptions that are common nouns. The first ones I tried were Lojban and Chicago, which obviously didn't work. It got "language" before the 20 guesses had run out, but apparently it didn't know what a radio amateur was. At the 20th question, it guessed "a superhero". LOL!
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Date: Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:48 (UTC)One of the suggestions that "needs more exercise", for example, is "hay fever (pollen allergy)"; it's kind of hard to describe it. Does it weigh more than a pound of butter? Is it green or black? Um.