20Q- AI guessing game

[avad]

Just finished a resin pour, so I'm taking a short break with the computer before getting back to artwork.
Check this out:

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.

Try It?

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Very Interesting!

The opening page said, "voodoo" needed practice, so I tried that one. Then I tried Christianity. Then I tried "a religion". Seems like it still has pretty limited words in its database.

The exercise brings to mind different ways in which words can be used.

[avad.livejournal.com]

the idea of helping the system learn just always gives me a warm fuzzy mommy feeling. Guess it goes back to a book i read long ago..Galatea 2.2 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312423136/qid=1100814424/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-8090093-4148056)

Product Description:

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.

[anztac.livejournal.com]

I did Tao.

... =D Too funny. Also it's interesting things that are close to it when you get to the end (I always won on that one, I wonder if it will ever win on that one)

[avad.livejournal.com]

oh that's not fair!!! poor thing. whatever can be spoken of the tao is not the true tao.;)torturing a wittle program like that!
well, actually I'm impressed that you were able to choose between sometimes, probably and yes for everything.;)

[sendao.livejournal.com]

I love the way the system gives you weird statistics like 'most people don't know' and that sort of thing. It's pretty sweet. And the way it kind of hones in on your idea, based on people's previous answers...

All in all though the system is pretty simple! I mean it's obviously not going to come alive but it is a pretty good database of words. Maybe it could be used in the future to help another system speak English.

[avad.livejournal.com]

aw, it just needs a little love, sendao. ;)
I think he/she's cute.

[sendao.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. This also really makes me think about the nature of reality; one person may have one conception of religion, and another person has a different conception of it... if you try to add them together, you get a bit of a contradiction. Maybe that's why "voodoo" and "religion" need more work - because people have contradicting ideas about them.

But also that means, what does voodoo really mean? How do you determine the 'authoritative source' of a piece of information? Does the meaning come from the people who DO voodoo, or does it come from what the masses think it means? Interesting. What is the reality behind voodoo? Does a reality actually exist, or is there no single "voodoo" concept, even though we have a word for that concept? Interesting.

[avad.livejournal.com]

Isn't it thought-provoking? so many questions..
I too wonder if 'meanings' will more quickly shift from top-down 'one dictionary authority' to the mean/average of mass usage. This in general as pertaining to our own evolution in a more networked world. Fuzzy language.;)

And how much can/will this particular system 'learn' with unlimited accumulated participation....I wonder!

[artisticdork.livejournal.com]

i know thats an awesome site i found it about a month or so ago...i stumped it on i think it was carrot, lol. at the time is said that it needed help on that word and like some chemicals and such :/

[avad.livejournal.com]

hee. yeah, I went for 'earlobe' and it guessed 'eyeball'. Kudos at least for coming up with a head bodypart....
but now it knows a bit more...so next time someone tries earlobe...

Is it wrong to think it's cute?
pat the computer. so cute.lick the computer.
oh, woops.

[artisticdork.livejournal.com]

not at all, i always give mine a kiss on the han...erm...keyboard b4 bed, lol :P

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

I knew I was thinking about elephants playing with a beach ball.

[avad.livejournal.com]

um, is that allowed?
;)

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

actually no but it did get the elephant right.

Think of an animal or something.

Are you almost done with the miami pieces?

[avad.livejournal.com]

ack!! ok ok!no, I've got tons to do still.
I'm going! I was digesting dinner...really.! I just made coffee!
*trudges back downstairs away from beloved compooter*

mmm resin fumes....

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't know if your interested or not but the resturant 2nd on 2nd sushi resturant, exhibits artwork on a revolving period.

I only notice this after seeing the price tags on each piece.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_sonita_/]

thats so cool... it got all my otha objects rite cept... Empire State Building... but can ya call that an object anyways?...
thanks for tha link... its really cool place :)

[darkfader.livejournal.com]

Damn, that just wasted a few hours of my beloved life! Thanks and curses, it's addictive! (and yes, I won most of them)

[avad.livejournal.com]

hee it's for a good cause! you're helping the wittle baby program learn!!! awww.
look, it can say daddeeedarkfader now.! It likes youuuuu...aw.;)

[dizturbd-friend.livejournal.com]

it was a 50/50 deal with me ... that was actually pretty fun.

thanks for sharing!