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

[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!