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.

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[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.