Whoa, that's one of those rare websites with 90's layout but still updated
Verum14 ยท 285 points ยท Posted at 03:36:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
why is this getting downvoted this is literally it
Lugbor ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 03:39:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because it is a crazy algorithm, deciding on which questions will get the most answers out of the pool. While it is process of elimination, the impressive part is how it achieves it.
Verum14 ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 03:42:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see how that's crazy? That would be a relatively simple algo.
Step 1 - Check which question has as close to a 50/50 split as possible, so either answer eliminates half of the pool
Step 2 - Ask question
Lugbor ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 03:47:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As I understand it, the more possible outcomes there are for a given task, the harder it is for a computer to efficiently make a decision. Because of how many answers there are in this thing, the system it uses to determine good questions is pretty impressive. Iโm fairly certain it also handles uncertainties to an extent, because Iโve had it come up with the same answer even when I answer a few questions differently, and weighted answers like that are a whole other problem.
I had to do something similar to a 20Q for a project for a CS class. It was surprising strait forward.
I basically just had to set up a binary search tree, then think of something, let's say we thing of a potato.
So the thing doesn't have any questions yet, so it has you input that you were thinking of a potato.
Next we'll think of an apple. We run the program and it says, "is your item a potato?" We say no, and to train the program, it says "what is the difference between a potato and an apple?" And you put some sort of answer like "the color red"
So we go again. Now we think of something like a cherry. The program asks, "is the color red?". We say yes. It asks "is it an apple?". We say no. It asks for the item, and we say a cherry. It asks for a difference between a cherry and an apple, and we say "smaller than a golf ball".
Get someone with no life to do this a crap ton of times, until you can't think of anything else people could possibly want and then get someone else to do it.
After you get it to know everything you want, you need to optimize the binary tree and boom, you've got a seemingly magic data structure that can guess your thing quite quickly.
Obviously this is a little oversimplified compared to things like Akinator. But if you have no previous knowledge about the basics of how it works I feel like this will help a little. Hopefully.
Plug in a massive dictionary. Maybe a few hundred megabytes of text. Something more like an encyclopedia, with history, names, places.
Parse noun definitions for quantifiable descriptors, like "automobile" or "large." Keep an eye for nested definitions (apple is a kind of fruit), common adjective-noun pairs (food is edible). These traits will establish our "specificity hierarchy." A lot of words are associated with "edible" - but only a couple will be associated with "fruit." This way, we quantify how much more specific "fruit" is than "food," and how apple is more specific than both.
Ask questions regarding maximally associated words (general adjectives, classifiers), like "is it a person, place, or thing?"
The nuance is in the amount you narrow the scope with each question. How do you go from "is it an object" to "is it large" to "is it an automobile?" How you decide if you'll ask about an adjective (is it red?) or about a class (is it an automobile?) That's the hard part, and the thing I'd love to know more about.
I imagine it has something to do with the connectedness of the valid word graph (words that meet all provided answers). That is to say, how associated the remaining valid words are with each other. If we're at the fruit level of specificity, we have green apples, red delicious, pears, bananas, and so on. Apples will all be strongly associated with one another, or "well connected."
Also beware: a word definition network is not a binary search. There will be many places where branches weave, and there will be cycles. It could potentially be untangled, but this would likely require duplicating words for each branch and blowing up the space required to embed the program.
I've also left out something. The questions sometimes allow for user contradiction. That's pretty impressive, and perhaps more sophisticated than what I outlined above.
THAT BEING SAID, they could also use ML. Depends on if they had a way to source honest data and test it.
These are valid solutions to the problem but just for the sake of the discussion here, they definitely did not use ML for this small little embedded 20Q device.
I looked it up this morning - NOT an expert system! Turns out they did have a website to train their ML. The device itself contains a smaller chunk of what they collected online.
The problem is that people will often answer things incorrectly because they don't know technicalities.
"Is he a leader of a country?"
Some might say yes, some might say no if the answer is, for example, Mike Pence or the guy that's in charge of Palestine (I haven't kept up since Yassir Arafat). The reason being: pence is A leader, just not necessarily THE leader. Likewise, some will say Palestine is a country, some won't. They're excellent questions, but the answers are worthless.
Similarly, for your own example: cherries.
"Is it red?"
Well, cherries can be red. But there's also black cherries. And they are green (I think?) before they ripen. So I wouldn't know if I should say yes or no if I was thinking of a cherry.
And then there's instances where you don't really know how to answer it.
Like let's say your answer is ground pepper.
"Is it a vegetable?"
Well... It is when it's still in pepper form. But do the seeds count as a vegetable? "Is it a plant?" I mean... No, since my hair isn't an animal, for example, but I'm pretty sure someone trying to narrow it down from "is it edible?" -> yes, "is it a plant\vegetable?" -> no, would consider pepper and other spices to be out of the acceptable answers now.
Since you can't really reason with computer, this stuff is a lot harder to program than it looks.
Yeah, there are a few ways this system can work something like that out.
Firstly, I think it's pretty necessary that the tree allows for repeat answers, so that if you give the system to be trained to 10 people, with 10 different opinions, at the end of it your tree might have 6 different paths to the answer "cherry".
Other than that, you could make the binary tree, a base-4 tree (idk if it has a name) like is done in the 20Q. So you can answer unknown or sometimes as well. This increases the maximum number of possible end answers from 220 to 420.
My last post was pretty good, I'm much more tired today, and I'll admit I haven't actually implemented the stuff that I've explained in this particular comment, I've just thought about how I would do it.
Verum14 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 03:55:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The first sentence is 100% correct. I actually forgot about the other two answers, so also thanks for the reminder ๐
So the answers are Unk, Y, N, Sometimes. For unk, they can simply throw out the answer (because essentially no answer was given). Y and N are self explanatory. For sometimes, that would be where weighing or variation could come in.
Let's say the object is a balloon.
Does it drive? --> no
Is it blue? --> sometimes
Is it round --> yes
Under normal circumstances, unk doesn't means a new question is needed and sometimes means either solution can be true. This would eliminate trees for example, and they are never blue.
that is 100% a Jacaranda ... if this pic was taken in Australia ( no idea if it was ) then i am going to make to call and say it is a Jacaranda mimosifolia.
on a side note a Jacaranda mimosifolia has such a distinct aroma ... it kind of smells like lavender and lemonade in one ... but if your asthmatic better have your puffer handy as it has about a 75% chance of triggering an attack if you smell it
Assume there is always a question that can split the number of remaining candidate answers in half. That means, with 20 questions, there are 220 or ~1,000,000 answers that 20Q can differentiate between. Google says there are ~171,000 words in the English language.
Hereโs a (practically useless) way to ask questions that satisfy my assumption: If you number each word in the English language, convert to binary, and take the last 20 digits, you can just ask for each of the binary digits in order and guess the word for sure.
Zeeterm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It could be even simpler than that and have almost no processing at the cost of storage, because the questions can be pre determined rather than evaluated every time.
What you need is to construct a single binary tree with 20 levels. Then you just walk the tree. Answer yes? Go left, answer no? Go right. Then find the question that is at the next node. Determining the tree can all be pre-calculated.
At the bottom you have the result.
That would need a bunch of storage, so on the fly determination of which question is most discriminating from a set of questions / attributes might be cheaper but that would require a lot more logic than walking a set tree.
monxas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is if you were mistaken in a question it could still recover, so it doesnโt eliminate, it reduces confidence. I hate when people disregard something as โitโs just a simple binary treeโ. Well itโs clearly not just that. It has a confidence system behind too, and maybe more stuff we donโt k ow about.
Zeeterm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:13:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Could these old ones recover from being lied to? If so that's impressive and gives credence to the fact that they weren't using lookup tables.
I don't think a binary tree is a simplification, constructing the binary tree would be incredibly complex because you would need to rebalance it to make sure that no nodes are more than 20 deep and that isn't a trivial exercise.
I wasn't trying to be reductionist or claim "anyone could do that!" at all, but instead presenting how something that appears to have little to no processing power could still appear intelligent.
Unknown would presumably be the same as if the question had never been asked. The machine just gets one less question to base its final guess on. Sometimes would eliminate anything where the answer is always yes or always no.
Yeah, I just personally feel like Iโve done better when I donโt state the object, but it could completely be confirmation bias, I wonโt deny that.
Binary search. It asks a question that divides the remaining possibilities roughly in half. If you have 1.2 million possibilities, after 20 questions, you're down to one possibility.
With these they don't so much eliminate answers as move them down on a confidence list. A single wrong answer will lower the confidence the AI has in the choice, but if it's doing a well enough job it should still put the correct answer at the top of its list of possibilities.
Iโm not implying that that is the only way it could get answers. It just seemed to get it right more often than when I didnโt speak the word. But again, could be completely down to confirmation bias and/or sample size
jama211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It still blows my mind. 220 is only a million. Surely there are more than 1 million things that aren't proper nouns? Yet the thing is right almost every time
Edit: Never mind. As an adult now, I know more specific things. Even excluding scientific/chemical names of stuff, I have a few things that aren't in the database
Try Akinator instead. If you manage to stump it, it asks you for the answer and it gets added to the database. It's been running for a long ass time, so it's really hard to do that these days.
Got to q70 and it just said "your character is not one of the most popular characters. Every day you get new credits which allow you to play all the characters. If you want to play Akinator again come back tomorrow or download the app" no option to add my character. Oh well
Dude, thatโs weak as far as Akinator is concerned. You gotta get reeeaall fucking obscure.
*Everyone responding to me saying it couldn't guess something, did you click "I am wrong." after the first guess? Akinator will guess well before 20 questions if it has a good idea. You don't beat Akinator until it literally says "I give up," and then you input the info on what you were trying to make it guess. Of course, that also requires the person playing to know the appropriate answers to the questions (you can have an obscure character or something else in mind, but how is Akinator supposed to guess it if you give it nothing to go on).
I mean, I feel it's pointless if it's an obscure game no one plays. I think it's perfectly fine to play characters that are super obscure but from known games. Someone like Booster from Mario rpg or Raven Lord from heroes of the Storm or Mr. foster from killing floor, or the Russian engineer from command and conquer 3 are fair game to me. But being like "ha you didn't guess Steve from Super Mario Kaizo romhack 3.2 Japanese" is just stupid.
The point of the whole "game" is to add more data to its database, so the more information you give it that it doesn't know, the better. It doesn't matter how "obscure" it is.
I just managed to stump it with Gwen DeLancy from The Riyria Revelations series, but I'm really impressed by how well it was able to guess some of my other ideas. I think your best bet for beating it these days is choosing side characters from semi-obscure novels.
I managed to stump it with the main characters from the Cradle series, but I'm not that surprised by that either. It's definitely less popular than Riyria.
I think they want you to call alcohol a mineral. I looked up the rules and they were like "if it's not a living thing, then it's a mineral, since for example, big Ben is made out of metal and glass".
Alcohol is tricky in that it was both invented and not invented. I'm sure it was first found when someone ate bad grapes and was like "whoa, I'm so dizzy haha". Then they invented ways to mass produce it. And then later probably invented isopropyl alcohol (the way I see it, if someone can say that they invented Tide or Coca Cola, then someone invented rubbing alcohol).
Regarding moving something, I want to believe there are alcohol powered engines (I dunno if it's a joke, but I think I heard Russia had something that could run off burning alcohol in the ussr days). Hell.... I think that corn oil 85% shit that the us uses is alcohol.
It only got guitar after 26 questions, guessing a cello (bass violin), a trombone, a banjo, and a double bass first. It complains that my answers were wrong:
You were thinking of a guitar.
Is it white? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Does it have writing on it? You said No, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is Yes.
Is it originally from Europe? You said Yes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
I'd argue that yes, some guitars (acoustic and electric) are white, even though the classical guitar usually isn't. None of the questions posed were suited to differentiate between classical, western, and electric guitar though. But I can accept that this answer was ambiguous.
In the same sense, a guitar sometimes has writing on it, in a decorative manner or in form of the maker's label on the inside. I answered "no", because I didn't want it to think of a book or screen. The answer most definitely isn't "yes" though.
Finally, the instrument we today refer to as guitar did indeed originate in Europe. Predecessors of the guitar can be found in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The modern guitar was invented in Europe, including also the western guitar.
Yeah, that's the weakness of the game. It needs players that understand how yes, no, usually, rarely works.
Most questions, realistically, will not be yes or no. They'll be usually (yes, but sometimes no) or rarely (no, but sometimes yes). And then even the hard yes or hard no questions can be too vague.
Like, lemme do a real life example for "computers". Now already that's a bad choice because an abacus and a calculator is a computer in that it solves math. But let's say I was thinking of "electronic computer, the kind that processes logic". Well, an MP3 player is a computer because it has logic functions. So I'll try to be fair and want it to find "desktop computer". So before the game began there was already confusion. Anyway:
Something you can wear?
You can wear a computer... I saw a guy wearing one in a meme. But normally you wouldn't, so I'll say NO even though the answer is really rarely.
Can it fit in an envelope? A Mac book air can as they showed in the commercials, but I'm thinking desktop computer, and we'll assume they meant letter sized envelop and not large one. Again, the answer should be rarely, but I'll say NO.
Does it refract light? The monitor can on a desktop computer set up, and my open case model that has a see through plastic "top" does... But I'll say no. Should be sometimes.
Can you walk on it? You can, but you shouldn't. This is a bad question because you can walk on anything physical. I'm not sure if it's asking "is it possible to walk on it?" (Anything that exists) "Is it possible to walk on it without ruining it?" (an egg) "Is it possible to on walk on it without harming yourself" (broken glass) "is it possible to walk on without getting in trouble?" (A cop, declaration of Independence). I'll assume they are asking if it's possible to walk on it. So I'll give it a YES.
Can you make pie from it? Easy NO
Is it used to make jewelry? I mean... I'm sure most jewelry cutting uses computers for precise cutting. But I assume it's asking if the computer is melted down to make jewels. Aside for recycling gold, no.
Can you hold it? It'll be hard to.hiod both the monitor and pc, but yes.
Is it a source of energy? Sometimes. Just ask my phone when it's low on energy.
Is it bad for your health? Studies show that sitting in front of a PC for a long time can increase odds of stroke and heart disease. But I'll say no because the OC itself is not the problem.
Is it bigger than a microwave? Easy sometimes.
Does it come in varieties? Yes
Is it a geology feature? No
Will it break if dropped? Sometimes. But I'll say yes since most computers do break at least a little.
Is it carved? No
Is it large? Sometimes.
Does it shine? I hate this one. Yes, sometimes they shine. Sometimes they're dull, sometimes they're reflective.
"I'm guessing it's concrete" terrible answer because concrete doesn't provide energy, and it isn't large.
Does it have ears? No
"I think it's a brick" no
I'd it in an office? Y
"Is it marble" no
Was it used over 100 years ago? No (not a desktop anyway)
"It's it heavy?" Sometimes
"Is it a printer?" Close
"Is it a laptop?" Close
It better get it right on the next one...
"Is it a computers" thank God, finally
You said it's classified as Mineral, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is Concept.
Can you walk on it? You said Yes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Is it a source of energy? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Is it very large? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Does it shine? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
ShaRose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:38:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Inflatable mattress. After the "you won" 30 questions in, it at least showed sleeping bag.
Yup. Virtually every time. It still kind of blows my mind tbh
jonloki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right! I tried to stump it with this like light, time, the encroaching dread of the universeโs vastness and our growing likelihood of killing our planet to the point of making it uninhabitable, and it got it 99% of the time.
I tried being a potty mouth to trick it when I was younger.
It guessed "dik dik" and "pussywillow" :|
The thing that always got me was realizing it was onto you after like 5 questions. Like, you are thinking cat and so far you have said it is an animal that is bigger than a breadbox and not imaginary and it is like "does it purr?"
I've been playing the online version of the game that was posted in this thread and it wont guess stuff like penis or even condom. Kinda wish there was a nsfw version of this game lol
You must have lied to it then. Plants arent animals.
chochy ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 03:01:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I would stump it by thinking of โassholeโ. I answered all the questions truthfully and it came up with โsphincterโ. I could not believe it!
I came here to say this exact same thing! The little bugger actually came up with sphincter! How in the hell. They must have known that teenagers would be thinking of these words.
Sphincters are used in other parts of the body, like the esophagus and the joint between the stomach and the duodenum, so in reality he did not really guess asshole.
Well, it's possible it was lucky, but I'm sure the programmer knew there would be teenagers playing this thing wanting to laugh at it guessing "vagina" or "dick" or something of the sort, but they couldn't just put in those words.
That was my thought process to. That said I think it is worth affirming that it should be OK/expected for a teenager to know what a vagina/penis is.
JC_Mac7 ยท 244 points ยท Posted at 02:43:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Almost everyone I knew had one of these. We were convinced it could hear us. No idea how it worked. Interested in hearing how they programmed this thing to guess correctly 98% of the time.
It'd be more impressive if it was listening. Combining speech recogition, speech-to-text, natural language processing, and context analysis was cutting edge technology in the 90's. It'd be a miraculous accomplishment if a toy designer had managed to master it all and sell it for only $10.
Not just connected to the internet, connected to the internet with a modem. I don't know if anybody that had cable internet or wifi when I was younger and played with one of these
It's basically a flowchart. The answer to the first question leads to the second which leads to the third. The device seems like it's being intuitive and making deductions but it's just following a predetermined path. It seems impressive to us because no human would ever be able to memorize that many combinations of questions and answers, but it's a simple task for a computer.
Thats not the part thats impressive imo... its the absolute sheer number of answers it has stored. there must be millions. no matter how obscure I got, it could get it. I remember it even got side characters from a novel I was reading...
Wait are you serious?? I thought it could guess all the โgeneral knowledgeโ type items. Did it actually guess specific stuff from novels?? I donโt understand how that would be possible. Was it a very popular novel? Coz I can imagine characters from very famous books would be in there.
Probably, it was something 14-yo me would have been reading.. maybe harry potter? or isaac asimov something.
But still. All of those items can't be tagged automatically, as far as I can figure. Each character, material, food, object, etc would need to have its characteristics saved somehow. that's the part that blows my mind even today, must have been an insane amount of legwork
They had a website up in the 90s. Essentially they crowd sourced building their database by making it public. By the time they put these on shelves they'd had a lot of time to build it up.
First, it was an online browser game, which I played as a kid. It got more accurate as I played it, until eventually they used all of the learning from the browser game and put it into this embedded device, which is more well known than the online game the preceded it. Genius monetization strategy. The online game was actually more capable, since the embedded device only had a subset of the most common answers. Still works amazingly well though.
I believe it was a relatively primitive type of machine learning. An ML person could definitely say more.
It's a decision tree, one of the simplest models in ML. It basically takes a bunch of samples from people answering questions and saying what they were thinking, and decides at each step "which question can I ask that gives me the most information?". Here, information is mathematically defined, so we can actually calculate which is the best. Once it has above a certain threshold of certainty (say, 99%) or reaches 20 question asked, it will guess the most likely option. There are some more advanced techniques that go into this to save memory and compute time, but in the grand scheme of ML it is very accessible.
Yeah, first I tried John Cheese from the book/movie John Dies At The End and it nailed it in 31.
Then I tried Oscar โDr Gonzoโ Acosta from book/movie Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and it guessed Gabriel Iglesias. It gave up not long after I told it it was wrong, asked me to download the app.
leo3065 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:15:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Akinator is amazing. I tried movie characters, I tried real people, I tried main character in different games, I tried champions in League of Legends, I tried Pokemon.
It got every single one right.
Also also for the animal one, I tried regular animals, I tried extinct animals, I tried frictional creatures in the mythology. Still pretty good.
I just did one, thinking of Edilio from GONE. It guessed the book but not the character. Going to dry Drake and Caine next.
jsha11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Each time someone plays it uses it to learn, so it can get these random characters because someone else would have tried it, it wouldn't have been able to guess it so then it asks what you were thinking of, then stores it so it can use it later on
It just got Hiccup from How To Train your Dragon. I thought it would be confused when I said yes to the character being in a TV show even though the movies are more known. About half way through it asked about dragons and I knew I was fucked.
Edit. Can't get Ed from Lion King. It asked if it was associated with lions, if it was part odd a trio, if it made sounds instead of talking, but couldn't get it. First time I got to 75 questions before it gave up and the second time it got to 20 something before giving up. Can anyone get Ed.
Ffxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just tried and it even asked if it was part of the Lion King but still couldn't guess Ed on multiple attempts
Remember guys you can use akinator to find stuff you didn't know about, e.g., describe a porn actor you would like to jerk off to and there you have it.
kitttxn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just tried this! My character was Fallon Carrington from Dynasty which I would say isnโt that hyped up of a show. He asked seemingly basic and general questions. By question 24 he got it. Wtfffff
It's based upon tags, and simply narrowing down the results. Each "Guess" has certain tags so it only appears when certain questions are answered in a specific way. Answering these questions eliminates certain "Guesses" and the list just gets shorter and shorter until it thinks it's found the correct "Guess"
If it's wrong it just keeps narrowing it down.
I'm just guessing btw
Drixzor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:13:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Binary search basically
irrelv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It essentially narrows it down based on the number of questions until it is reasonably confident that it knows the answer then it guesses. Think of all the people in the world I can eliminate by asking: is it a female? Is she in movies? Has she acted in a romantic comedy? And so on. The system prefers to ask questions that will eliminate the highest number of things or people based on the answer.
The thing is, you don't even have to start at the most dividing question, you can ask your general questions in any order to come to the same subset of possibilities.
It's definitely better to be greedy with your algorithm in this case.
ic33 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:06:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But you have dividing questions that remove other questions' applicability: you want to divide the set so that you can only ask useful questions and not waste asks.
The system prefers to ask questions that will eliminate the highest number of things or people based on the answer.
Statistically speaking I think you worded this wrong. If your thinking of something and I ask you if it's a potato and I was right, I would have just eliminated the highest number of options. But you don't want the machine to ask a million specific questions. You want it to ask general ones and narrow it down.
Ideally the machine asks questions that take all the available options and divide them in half (assuming yes or no questions). So every time it would be getting rid of the highest number of things it could for sure eliminate every time.
You can look it up. The original patent is described well by the engineer who filed the patent.
It's essentially a neural network. The machine keeps track of lists of questions and lists of objects. Each question and object has a possible set of answers (yes/no/etc) and each answer has a probability.
As the game is played, the probability adjusts. This is the neural network. The original author created the game on a floppy disk and passed it around to be played. Once these probabilities have settled, they can be hard coded into the machine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. There was one question that enraged my father. "Does it weigh more then a pound of butter?"
My dad: a pound of butter weighs the same as a pound of dog shit!
Because it's funny lmao, the game was definitely programmed with a sense of humor. For penis it would guess the dik-dik, some sort of African deer thing if I remember correctly, for vagina, pussywillow, and I think I remember it guessing tit for boob... cuz it's a bird, yknow
The thing that boggled my mind is how in the world they included so much in there. Presumably someone had to take all those terms and say which of the categories each falls into. The rest of it, figuring out which questions to ask and narrow down an answer, must have been pretty easy to program.
It used an artificial neural network, a sort of self evolving AI based on the input of millions of users over a period of years. They didn't actually code the "guesses". They developed an AI framework that learned as it was used.
It's fascinating, quasi-spooky stuff. I believe you can still play at http://www.20q.net although when I tried it just now the site was down. Hopefully just for maintenance.
Artificial neural networks didn't exist when this thing came out. Plus it wasn't connected to the internet for the data you'd need to do something like that.
20Q did use artificial neural networks based on peoples responses to get the right answer, it developed over time and then in 2004 they basically copy and pasted the knowledge base they had built up into the handheld device shown above, so the data was stored on it locally, but the original data was generated through a neural network (which has been around since the 1940s btw)
I think you are saying "mostly wrong" because my comment is overly simplified. Which is fair. But the motivation for my comment isn't an in depth explanation of neural networks or AI or how the 20q implemented this technology, or maybe more correctly, the results of this technology.
I just kept seeing posts by people who expressed wonder in how the programmers could conceive of so many possibilities and program the "guesses" as if they hand coded the logic for many millions of possibilities, which is a logical assumption for someone who is unfamiliar with the concept. My goal is just to set anyone who is interested on the right research path.
Nah dude, I'm very much on your side. But your use of "it" implied that the handheld toy used artificial neural networks, which it certainly didn't, but it is based on work done by ANNs.
The people who replied to you were more wrong than you
Well, that's very true, although I feel it's a bit knit picking, as my point was simply that the toy was not built by programmers meticulously coding the logic for millions of choices, rather the logic was built by a neutral network.
It's almost as if I showed someone a print of an oil painting and told them it was done using oils as opposed to acrylics or what have you. No it's not an oil painting, it's a print. But it's a print of an oil painting and to knit pick about that is just refusing to see the forest for the trees and to argue simply for argument's sake.
I read your other posts. I know you have a clear understanding of the technology. A couple of other guys, one in particular, just jumped on here and really indicated ignorance then when I linked him to some articles, started doubling down claiming that the plethora of references were the ones that were wrong, not him.
People are amazing in their tenacious grasp of their own misinformation and ignorance.
The database was generated by an artificial neural network over the course of 20 years, in 2004 they put what they had into the handheld device, so the knowledge was stored locally and didn't require a neural network or online, but was still data created by an ANN
stu2b50 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Am I falling for Poe's law or do you actually believe in this word salad
You must be pretty stupid if you think that's word salad, my comment came out as 22-23 year old on a reading grade test.
Here's some more info:
20Qย is a computerized game ofย twenty questionsย that began as a test inย artificial intelligenceย (AI). It was invented by Robin Burgener in 1988.[1]ย The game was made handheld byย Radicaย in 2004
The 20Q AI uses anย artificial neural networkย to pick the questions and to guess.[1][4]ย After the player has answered the twenty questions posed (sometimes fewer), 20Q makes a guess. If it is incorrect, it asks more questions, then guesses again. It makes guesses based on what it has learned; it is not programmed with information or what the inventor thinks.ย
The built Artificial Neural Network is not resource intensive either to store or to compute, thus it could be embedded in small, less powerful devices. Currently, there is aย handheldย version of the AI. The device contains a small portion of the original 20Q website knowledge base; unlike the online versions of the game, the handheld version does not have the ability to learn.
stu2b50 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:17:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good lesson on when to look deeper into wikipedia articles. The sources are dubious to say the least.
One is the archive of a 2006 talk which says some vague bullshit about AI, the other is the FAQ which looks it was made in the 90s and gives equally brief, empty answers.
The way both talk about "neurons" and "connections" is just ridiculous. Neural networks are layers of relu(w@x + b). Any connection with "neurons" is just trying make it look fancier than it is.
Here are reasons to believe it's not a neutral network
1) it fucking predates word2vec
2) you're not running a neural network on that level of hardware
3) some like boosted trees would almost certainly be preferred for tiny embedded hardware
stu2b50 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I actually did Google it, and there is literally nothing to support that idea. In fact, the only technical link suggests a decision tree.
It's just vague phrasing about their "AI" on their own website.
Honestly, I'd be impressed if they used a neural network because it's like making a house out of ice cream. It's just completely the wrong tool for the job.
If I had to guess, it's just a decision tree fit on surveys.
I remember being in middle school. A friend brought this to a scout meeting and of course, I thought of a penis and tried to make it say it.
After about 3 tries trying to get it to say penis and failing, it asked me if it was a dikdik. I was describing a penis, and that's what it guessed. We couldn't stop laughing at that.
I managed to beat it growing up but I guess it was a bit of a cheat. My object in mind was the 20 question ball itself, which it could never guess. I remember being very entertained when I discovered this as a kid.
Not allowed to being your gameboy on a road trip? What kind of parents did you have or what kind of trouble did you get in to because that was the whole point of the gameboy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
boomer parents who thought video games were evil lol
I loved playing this game when I was little. It was always right. I had the one where the colors would change when you touched it. It was orange and yellow.
1d10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was a dept manager in toys at Walmart when these came out, I opened a few and left them in areas where people had to wait for service, sold a shit ton of em.
I remember as a kid being absolutely mind-fucked when it correctly guessed โatomโ. I really thought I had come up with the most obscure answer possible lmao
I still remember getting one of these for Christmas and playing it in the car the whole car ride down visiting family with my dad and stepmom. I remember how jarring it was to them when it would just ask "is he/she black (or white)" cuz the question was outta nowhere and blunt.
The music one was also really good. Sometimes I would ask my dad to think of a person or band that I didnโt know of and it would get it most of the time.
My friends dad helped make this and I remember him having a bunch of weird games they were โtestingโ. I donโt remember any specifics, but they were all fun.
when me and my cousin would go shopping at kmart with my mom and aunt we'd grab one of these and walk around the toy section playing with it unti lwe had to go. Never actually bought it but I put some hours into it for sure.
Crawf92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I play this game with my students as an ESL in Korea. This ball was crazy accurate.
I've never seen one of these before. I'm guessing that you're supposed to think of something, and it's supposed to guess what it is that you're thinking about, by answering its questions?
Actual quote from a game with my two older brothers - "Oh I dont know. Can you eat it?" "Well yeah. Sometimes. If youre weird" "What is it?!?!".........."A rock"
Yeah while it's impressive and mind blowing as others have said its obviously a clever algorithm mixed with process of elimination. Still i remember i tried to fool it with something more obscure like a smoking pipe and sure enough it got it. I was super impressed!
Theres an Akinator app now, that genie that could read your mind on the internet.
Big problem now though. The fuckers decided monetize. Now if you pick a good character, it says "this is a premium character" before asking you to buy the app, and you don't get to see if it actually knew who you picked.
Anyway 20Q is cool.
B0Boman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, I still have mine!
rrosko2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know about that but I had fun playing hide and seen with my dad. It was so fun and he was so good at it, it's been 14 years and I still can't find him.
Crazy - just today I was cleaning out my closet and came across mine. It's red. Batteries were dead so it wasn't working. I was thinking of just tossing it, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So it went back into the box of mementos and other cool things that I don't feel like parting with for one reason or another. And here it is a few hours later on reddit.
late to the party, but i remember stealing this at my schools christmas sale. someone caught me, and my friend wanted to buy it the next remaining day but i was forced to sell it to some little girl and i never seen one since
I had a limited editon snowflake one that I got for Christmas while my brother got a regular blue lol. The snowflake one was actually super cute tho ngl
No you arenโt thinking. You are reading my mind because there is no way you got koalas when the last question you asked is do humans eat them.
jfrudge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OG Akinator
xandora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A friend had one of these that was damage and couldn't display one vertical line on the LCD. Turns out that it was the exact line that it needed to display the "i" in "nail" for "it's a nail!"...
Ashhin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle would think that it could hear what you were picking an not say it out loud an write it down on a piece of paper. After it didnโt work he would say that itโs rigged an the government is involved.
It used an artificial neural network, a sort of self evolving AI based on the input of millions of users over a period of years. They didn't actually code the "guesses". They developed an AI framework that learned as it was used.
It's fascinating, quasi-spooky stuff. I believe you can still play at http://www.20q.net although when I tried it just now the site was down. Hopefully just for maintenance.
As others have said, the device itself is relatively simple following a flow chart and taking paths on that chart based on your answers.
I'd be interested in how that flow chart was originally created though. How did they wind up with that particular chart being able to answer 99% of the puzzles you gave it?
Oh I played this growing up. But I never actually owned one. Never even attempted to ask my parents to buy one. But every time we went shopping, I'd play this in the toy section through the packaging. Good times
I had one that guessed which Simpsons character you were thinking of. I used to answer based on myself and use it as a "what Simpsons character are you?" quiz
I used to take it on holidays and get stopped in airport security every time. Small round device, with a screen, 4 buttons and full of wires - it has to be a bomb!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, these were awesome! The first thing I thought of was our dog, fully expecting it to just say "dog" as the answer, but it guessed the EXACT BREED. Blew my freaking mind!
I worked for the guy who made this product a decade ago. My job was to "teach" the AI the right answers. I sat in a room with a dozen other people "programming" the AI by answering questions over and over.
wallix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There is a red one on my coffee table right now from the 90โs - a gift from my bro. My kids are 5 and 7 and the 7 year old loves it and thinks itโs magic.
Not too long ago my grandma found one of those in her house and I tried playing it again, somehow Iโm still amazed and spend too long trying to outsmart it.
๐ตI'll ask 21 questions and they all about us
Could you love me in a Bentley?
Could you love me on a bus?
I'll ask 21 questions and they all about us๐ต
I rmb after a while, itโd be fun to be completely honest and let the game guess within 5 questions. There was almost a way to hint to the game what youโre thinking of without explicitly saying so
One night my brothers girlfriend said if it could guess tampon she would run across the street wearing only a hat touch the lamppost and come back. Welp it said "sanitary napkin" and anyone awake at 2am that night got to see her lovelies, lol.
My aunt would send my family a different game every year for Christmas. First time we played we did "shit" and it asked "Is it poop?". Lol. We were hooked after that.
JJax10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Basically a next level "8 ball" that you shook and asked a question! It basically "tries to figure out what you're thinking" by asking 20 general questions narrowing it down until it 100% guesses whatever you had in your head, shit was creepy when I was 10!!
FEwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yea I had one worked like 90% of the time then 1 year after were I used more difficult phrases and new technology emerged it went down to 50% and now it usually does not work anymore except I use very simple words
Kat_ri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Beat it with menorah!
wpanik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This came up at lunch at work the other day. We found out it's an app and downloaded it. Somehow the app doesn't work nearly as well as that old piece of plastic did.
There was a error in at least some versions. We were trying for "hummingbird" and the questions were moving closer and closer to the inevitable correct conclusion...then it came back with "human head." Tried multiple times and kept getting the same result. Guessing an entry was miss-typed or an index was off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being 17/18 and thinking it was a dumb toy and I would stomp it easily on my first try by thinking my girlfriend's name and it guessed "Soul mate" and it blew my mind.
I remember this thing! I can hear the noises it made too. I think it was only tossed out when it finally quit a few years ago. I think my family had both this regular one and the sports themed one that was supposed to vaguely look like a football.
I've still got mine! Most of the pixels are dead now, but you can still just make out what it says when the questions are long enough to scroll into the less dead areas. Sometimes I break it out for the dual entertainment of 20Q and deciphering those questions that you can only see bits and pieces of.
Edit: Just realised the image shows a 20Q with an undo button. Thought that seemed odd so I went and checked, and lo and behold mine doesn't have it! Seems identical otherwise, same logo and everything. Maybe mine's especially old, or perhaps a knockoff? Wouldn't surprise me given the way parents are.
The first time I used it, I was thinking of an โassholeโ to see if it would get the answer. It answered with โsphincterโ within four or five questions as though it had done that a million times by now. I was thoroughly impressed.
My memories were 1% "whoa how did it possibly guess i was thinking of a duck?" And 99% "fuck i just bumped it off my bedside table, gotta wait 5 minutes for it to go to sleep"
My sis used to have one back in the day. This thing used to turn on at night sometimes, when laying on itself, and the only way to turn it off was to answer all of the questions...talk about torture ;(.
LBTT ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 05:29:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah. The function they use to arrive at the answer can be ascertained by the fifth question or so. It has a massive internal database and it cutting out huge swaths based on user input.
Itโs the electronic version of Guess Who?.
Anyone who had their mind blown by this was a moron. Itโs just a database searching algorithm. We interact with these things every day.
It's kinda amazing that they fit it in such a small package at the time. Everyone knew how it worked. But it was kinda amazing in the same way those pocket electronic Dictionary was. We didn't have smart phones or tablets.
LBTT ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It wasnโt amazing to me, just simple. And these came out near the cusp of smartphones. Your last sentence makes it seem like you believe me to be young. No. I was born in a time before cds were a thing and the internet still required to be dialed and even that was brand new. The moment I saw these things, I was completely unimpressed.
My_Diet_DrKelp ยท 3650 points ยท Posted at 02:15:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing legit worked lol
WhipYourDakOut ยท 1308 points ยท Posted at 03:08:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My theory has always been that these things can hear you
Woodwardg ยท 751 points ยท Posted at 03:15:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
its just a crazy ass algorithim i suppose
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 1037 points ยท Posted at 03:30:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
nope. just process of elimination.
wholovesoreos ยท 735 points ยท Posted at 03:44:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wrong fool, it's magic.
jerk_17 ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 07:15:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/blackmagicfuckery to be exact
/s
white_android ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:42:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One of these days we'll learn how to use your black magic. Then we'll see who gets the last laugh.
23x3 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 08:49:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs an algorithm of deduction so technically they were both right I suppose
these_days_bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Especially these days
LivabeticDiabetic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:38:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cakeday!!
WaiterPleaE ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:49:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can't day, woo
jiraiyapervysage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:52:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cake day!
LianCoubert93 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously though how did they work so well
everyones-a-robot ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 06:55:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yep and they had an online database that they had been fine tuning for some time before releasing the hardware version.
http://www.20q.net
ciaramicola ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 08:41:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa, that's one of those rare websites with 90's layout but still updated
Verum14 ยท 285 points ยท Posted at 03:36:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
why is this getting downvoted this is literally it
Lugbor ยท 281 points ยท Posted at 03:39:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because it is a crazy algorithm, deciding on which questions will get the most answers out of the pool. While it is process of elimination, the impressive part is how it achieves it.
Verum14 ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 03:42:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see how that's crazy? That would be a relatively simple algo.
Step 1 - Check which question has as close to a 50/50 split as possible, so either answer eliminates half of the pool
Step 2 - Ask question
Lugbor ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 03:47:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As I understand it, the more possible outcomes there are for a given task, the harder it is for a computer to efficiently make a decision. Because of how many answers there are in this thing, the system it uses to determine good questions is pretty impressive. Iโm fairly certain it also handles uncertainties to an extent, because Iโve had it come up with the same answer even when I answer a few questions differently, and weighted answers like that are a whole other problem.
mistcurve ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 06:57:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had to do something similar to a 20Q for a project for a CS class. It was surprising strait forward.
I basically just had to set up a binary search tree, then think of something, let's say we thing of a potato.
So the thing doesn't have any questions yet, so it has you input that you were thinking of a potato.
Next we'll think of an apple. We run the program and it says, "is your item a potato?" We say no, and to train the program, it says "what is the difference between a potato and an apple?" And you put some sort of answer like "the color red"
So we go again. Now we think of something like a cherry. The program asks, "is the color red?". We say yes. It asks "is it an apple?". We say no. It asks for the item, and we say a cherry. It asks for a difference between a cherry and an apple, and we say "smaller than a golf ball".
Get someone with no life to do this a crap ton of times, until you can't think of anything else people could possibly want and then get someone else to do it.
After you get it to know everything you want, you need to optimize the binary tree and boom, you've got a seemingly magic data structure that can guess your thing quite quickly.
Obviously this is a little oversimplified compared to things like Akinator. But if you have no previous knowledge about the basics of how it works I feel like this will help a little. Hopefully.
sidekickman ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:46:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Plug in a massive dictionary. Maybe a few hundred megabytes of text. Something more like an encyclopedia, with history, names, places.
Parse noun definitions for quantifiable descriptors, like "automobile" or "large." Keep an eye for nested definitions (apple is a kind of fruit), common adjective-noun pairs (food is edible). These traits will establish our "specificity hierarchy." A lot of words are associated with "edible" - but only a couple will be associated with "fruit." This way, we quantify how much more specific "fruit" is than "food," and how apple is more specific than both.
Ask questions regarding maximally associated words (general adjectives, classifiers), like "is it a person, place, or thing?"
The nuance is in the amount you narrow the scope with each question. How do you go from "is it an object" to "is it large" to "is it an automobile?" How you decide if you'll ask about an adjective (is it red?) or about a class (is it an automobile?) That's the hard part, and the thing I'd love to know more about.
I imagine it has something to do with the connectedness of the valid word graph (words that meet all provided answers). That is to say, how associated the remaining valid words are with each other. If we're at the fruit level of specificity, we have green apples, red delicious, pears, bananas, and so on. Apples will all be strongly associated with one another, or "well connected."
Also beware: a word definition network is not a binary search. There will be many places where branches weave, and there will be cycles. It could potentially be untangled, but this would likely require duplicating words for each branch and blowing up the space required to embed the program.
I've also left out something. The questions sometimes allow for user contradiction. That's pretty impressive, and perhaps more sophisticated than what I outlined above.
THAT BEING SAID, they could also use ML. Depends on if they had a way to source honest data and test it.
edit: They did use ML, and not expert systems.
Firewolf420 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 09:12:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
These are valid solutions to the problem but just for the sake of the discussion here, they definitely did not use ML for this small little embedded 20Q device.
sidekickman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They could have used ML to generate the tree. From what I could find, they actually did use ML, and not expert systems.
ML isn't necessarily a giant thing that requires terabytes of data.
Firewolf420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What I was saying is they didn't have ML algorithms running on an embedded device from the 2000s.
blunderbauss ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:46:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think its a simple expert system. Been around since <1980s
Uses rules and inferencing to determine answers.
If "has claws" and if "has sharp teeth" = "is carnivore"
If "is carnivore" and is "fast" and "has spots"
"Is it a cheetah?"
Etc.
sidekickman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:58:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I looked it up this morning - NOT an expert system! Turns out they did have a website to train their ML. The device itself contains a smaller chunk of what they collected online.
BillieDWilliams ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:27:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Unghh
ScrobDobbins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:41:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Did..
Did you just stick a dictionary in your ass?
Hdogers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Straight. It's straightforward
BillieDWilliams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But what is potato? I've never heard of it before?
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The problem is that people will often answer things incorrectly because they don't know technicalities.
"Is he a leader of a country?"
Some might say yes, some might say no if the answer is, for example, Mike Pence or the guy that's in charge of Palestine (I haven't kept up since Yassir Arafat). The reason being: pence is A leader, just not necessarily THE leader. Likewise, some will say Palestine is a country, some won't. They're excellent questions, but the answers are worthless.
Similarly, for your own example: cherries.
"Is it red?"
Well, cherries can be red. But there's also black cherries. And they are green (I think?) before they ripen. So I wouldn't know if I should say yes or no if I was thinking of a cherry.
And then there's instances where you don't really know how to answer it.
Like let's say your answer is ground pepper.
"Is it a vegetable?"
Well... It is when it's still in pepper form. But do the seeds count as a vegetable? "Is it a plant?" I mean... No, since my hair isn't an animal, for example, but I'm pretty sure someone trying to narrow it down from "is it edible?" -> yes, "is it a plant\vegetable?" -> no, would consider pepper and other spices to be out of the acceptable answers now.
Since you can't really reason with computer, this stuff is a lot harder to program than it looks.
mistcurve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, there are a few ways this system can work something like that out.
Firstly, I think it's pretty necessary that the tree allows for repeat answers, so that if you give the system to be trained to 10 people, with 10 different opinions, at the end of it your tree might have 6 different paths to the answer "cherry".
Other than that, you could make the binary tree, a base-4 tree (idk if it has a name) like is done in the 20Q. So you can answer unknown or sometimes as well. This increases the maximum number of possible end answers from 220 to 420.
My last post was pretty good, I'm much more tired today, and I'll admit I haven't actually implemented the stuff that I've explained in this particular comment, I've just thought about how I would do it.
Verum14 ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 03:55:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The first sentence is 100% correct. I actually forgot about the other two answers, so also thanks for the reminder ๐
So the answers are Unk, Y, N, Sometimes. For unk, they can simply throw out the answer (because essentially no answer was given). Y and N are self explanatory. For sometimes, that would be where weighing or variation could come in.
Under normal circumstances, unk doesn't means a new question is needed and sometimes means either solution can be true. This would eliminate trees for example, and they are never blue.
Maybe this helped? I'm too tired sorry ๐
PacoCrazyfoot ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 04:22:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
AkTcHuAlLy...
Verum14 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:24:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking hate you
But I also want one now
PacoCrazyfoot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:31:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That makes two of us, on both accounts.
Verum14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You hate me?? ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ซ
PacoCrazyfoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, we both hate me.
Verum14 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:38:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, okay. I agree
brothermonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude wipe your spit off my screen
StpdSxyFlndrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For real though, regardless of color, do you know what type of tree that is?
PacoCrazyfoot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:05:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A Chinese wisteria tree.
StpdSxyFlndrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, thanks.
Iphotoshopincats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
that is 100% a Jacaranda ... if this pic was taken in Australia ( no idea if it was ) then i am going to make to call and say it is a Jacaranda mimosifolia.
on a side note a Jacaranda mimosifolia has such a distinct aroma ... it kind of smells like lavender and lemonade in one ... but if your asthmatic better have your puffer handy as it has about a 75% chance of triggering an attack if you smell it
StpdSxyFlndrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:06:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I donโt think so. I live in a warm climate, and the street I live on is lined with Jacarandas. The only similarity is the color.
zr0gravity7 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:21:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Brb going to code this.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:48:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator already beat you to it.
eggnogeggnogeggnog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:49:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Assume there is always a question that can split the number of remaining candidate answers in half. That means, with 20 questions, there are 220 or ~1,000,000 answers that 20Q can differentiate between. Google says there are ~171,000 words in the English language.
Hereโs a (practically useless) way to ask questions that satisfy my assumption: If you number each word in the English language, convert to binary, and take the last 20 digits, you can just ask for each of the binary digits in order and guess the word for sure.
starmartyr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:16:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That would only work if your answer was one word. So if I picked Abraham Lincoln or the Eiffel Tower it wouldn't work.
fucklawyers ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Google is off by quite a bit. There are over a million words in English if you include everything.
171k is still a lot, Spanish is well under 50.
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yup.
Zeeterm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It could be even simpler than that and have almost no processing at the cost of storage, because the questions can be pre determined rather than evaluated every time.
What you need is to construct a single binary tree with 20 levels. Then you just walk the tree. Answer yes? Go left, answer no? Go right. Then find the question that is at the next node. Determining the tree can all be pre-calculated.
At the bottom you have the result.
That would need a bunch of storage, so on the fly determination of which question is most discriminating from a set of questions / attributes might be cheaper but that would require a lot more logic than walking a set tree.
monxas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is if you were mistaken in a question it could still recover, so it doesnโt eliminate, it reduces confidence. I hate when people disregard something as โitโs just a simple binary treeโ. Well itโs clearly not just that. It has a confidence system behind too, and maybe more stuff we donโt k ow about.
Zeeterm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:13:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Could these old ones recover from being lied to? If so that's impressive and gives credence to the fact that they weren't using lookup tables.
I don't think a binary tree is a simplification, constructing the binary tree would be incredibly complex because you would need to rebalance it to make sure that no nodes are more than 20 deep and that isn't a trivial exercise.
I wasn't trying to be reductionist or claim "anyone could do that!" at all, but instead presenting how something that appears to have little to no processing power could still appear intelligent.
-Jive-Turkey- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Whatโs my motherโs maiden name
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:40:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's never as straightforward as it seems.
jaceinthebox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:12:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why I ask questions like could this person drive in Saudi Arabia in 2002?
StalinsLoveChild ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Also it has a huge database of entities and relationships. Pretty nifty for the time I guess.
frostedminiyeets19 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:42:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โWhy are you booing me, Iโm rightโ
BillieDWilliams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Cuz
ailish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The funny thing about talking about a post's downvotes is that a few hours can make you look crazy.
noodlelaughter ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:20:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What exactly do you think an algorithm is...?
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 07:52:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's like a magic spell you write with a bunch of numbers on a computer
Fearrless ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:05:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It is actually a binary tree search algorithm. Or a โDecision Treeโ as itโs commonly known in AI and Game Development.
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/40024/how-can-i-implement-a-20-questions-algorithm
This gentlemen explains it much better than I.
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:39:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
And guess what that is? AN ALGORITHM. Idiot trying to act all high and mighty when he clearly knows fuck all.
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was saying nope to the crazy ass past, so you could probably try to be more reserved with your use of "idiot"
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right, sorry its hard to tell by text, I'll admit that my comment was uncalled for.
I like your username btw
GaijinFoot ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 09:26:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The algorithm is the process of elimination. Why did you say nope?
workedmisty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think he meant nope to the "crazy ass" part
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yup.
throwawayZ2BK ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 05:07:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's just a simple decision tree. With 20 yes/no questions you can get 2^20 results, just over 1 million possible decisions.
runningthroughcircle ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 07:00:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thereโs also โSometimesโ and โUnknownโ. Not sure how that affects the math cause Iโm bad at it.
Owyn_Merrilin ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 07:06:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Unknown would presumably be the same as if the question had never been asked. The machine just gets one less question to base its final guess on. Sometimes would eliminate anything where the answer is always yes or always no.
throwawayZ2BK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That gives you 420, over 1 trillion. However, it's more likely that those options just modify the decision tree in some way to ignore the question.
TopScruffy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 08:53:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still remember it got gargoyle for me. One of the biggest wtf moments of my life, it's crazy that's possible.
WhipYourDakOut ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:42:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I just personally feel like Iโve done better when I donโt state the object, but it could completely be confirmation bias, I wonโt deny that.
DJnotaFlukER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:01:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Look up binary search trees. 20 questions works with similar algorithms.
matteo81992 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Binary search. It asks a question that divides the remaining possibilities roughly in half. If you have 1.2 million possibilities, after 20 questions, you're down to one possibility.
SoylentGreenAcres ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 05:59:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember once when it correctly guessed echidna, and I swear I gave a wrong answer in there somewhere
AlastarYaboy ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:16:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
With these they don't so much eliminate answers as move them down on a confidence list. A single wrong answer will lower the confidence the AI has in the choice, but if it's doing a well enough job it should still put the correct answer at the top of its list of possibilities.
Jovet_Hunter ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:57:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We always put it outside while discussing our question.
And it always knew when you were thinking about weed
EmmSleepy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought it could too but one time I tried it without saying anything and it still got it. It was "naked mole rat." I was pissed
shadow-redditor_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:16:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i always whispered to my friends when i was playing it so it wouldnโt hear me lmao
Bobby_Dazzla ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah I never said it out loud and it still got it most of the time
Diane_Degree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Hear what though? I didn't talk when I used it.
ctfogo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:32:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my friends had this same theory and would shush each other when we really tried to beat it. No correlation was found, if I remember correctly
tanmetsuistrash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:50:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But that is just a theory...
VEXtheMEX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It must also be able to read minds because there have been times where I only think of the object and it still guessed.
WhipYourDakOut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm not implying that that is the only way it could get answers. It just seemed to get it right more often than when I didnโt speak the word. But again, could be completely down to confirmation bias and/or sample size
jama211 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:21:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's a dumb theory
ShredLobster ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:38:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It would be HILARIOUS if that was the case. Play it without speaking and itโs just as accurate though....
NbdySpcl_00 ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 05:33:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.20q.net/
Still does.
Dmacca666 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 05:50:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's all probability and algorithms and such, but I'm easily amused and I still find that fascinating!
LeviAEthan512 ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 06:07:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It still blows my mind. 220 is only a million. Surely there are more than 1 million things that aren't proper nouns? Yet the thing is right almost every time
Edit: Never mind. As an adult now, I know more specific things. Even excluding scientific/chemical names of stuff, I have a few things that aren't in the database
Owyn_Merrilin ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 07:09:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Try Akinator instead. If you manage to stump it, it asks you for the answer and it gets added to the database. It's been running for a long ass time, so it's really hard to do that these days.
tomayto_potayto ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 08:13:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Got to q70 and it just said "your character is not one of the most popular characters. Every day you get new credits which allow you to play all the characters. If you want to play Akinator again come back tomorrow or download the app" no option to add my character. Oh well
Owyn_Merrilin ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:15:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That sucks. The site did look different from the last time I looked at it. They must have tried to cash in on it and ruined it, greedy bastards.
Frogboxe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I went and tried to at some point last year and it was like that but I think it's just back to how it was now.
HEYitsBIGS ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:09:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap. It took a good number of questions, but it got my Eva unit 01 correct. Impressive lol.
Tiberius_Kilgore ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 08:56:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Dude, thatโs weak as far as Akinator is concerned. You gotta get reeeaall fucking obscure.
*Everyone responding to me saying it couldn't guess something, did you click "I am wrong." after the first guess? Akinator will guess well before 20 questions if it has a good idea. You don't beat Akinator until it literally says "I give up," and then you input the info on what you were trying to make it guess. Of course, that also requires the person playing to know the appropriate answers to the questions (you can have an obscure character or something else in mind, but how is Akinator supposed to guess it if you give it nothing to go on).
**definitely not saying it's unbeatable
lbwstthprxtnd5-8mrdg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:15:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pulling out Ul'rezaj from StarCraft works infrequently.
Tiberius_Kilgore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not surprising. It mostly relies on user input. That's also why it tells you the last date a particular character was guessed.
At the end of the day, it's just a fun game.
ImVarunNoTheOtherOne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:22:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yeah it got Crocodile from 1 piece in 22 questions which is pretty crazy (how few not in obscurity)
Shroomie_the_Elf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I couldnโt get it to guess Chtholly from WorldEnd so I guess it was obscure enough
popostar6745 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't guess Kat from Gravity Rush. So there's that.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They're pretty stupid for not just making it play an ad and give you 5 more rounds.
KKlear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:16:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ha! Defeated him with Cammi.
midnightsmith ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:56:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus, 70 questions but it guessed smoochy the rhino. Fuck me.
these_days_bot ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:09:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Especially these days
Dmacca666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What the hell! It got Dr Cox in 17! Again, algorithms, easily impressed and such but still!!
Dmacca666 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. Bernard Black in 21!? Now I'm concerned.....
Dmacca666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
YES!!! IT DIDN'T GET DOUG! AKA NERVOUS GUY!
Again, easily pleased...... :)
searingsky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i trief ricardo milos and he didnt know him wtf
theexpertgamer1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I am shocked it managed to get the character I chose from the RANDOMEST most unknown tv show that I ever watched.
KusanagiZerg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's really easy to stump. Just pick any character from a tv-show in the 70's, 80's, 90's etc.
yhorian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:27:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've had it fail 100% by just using commonly known book authors.
ConspicuouslyBland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:21:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Beaten it with Lucky Luke...
Some things I didn't know though. Got questions about where Lucky Luke lives, I don't know that.
Unicarn54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's easy to stump Akinator if you are a fan of indie games.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:21:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, I feel it's pointless if it's an obscure game no one plays. I think it's perfectly fine to play characters that are super obscure but from known games. Someone like Booster from Mario rpg or Raven Lord from heroes of the Storm or Mr. foster from killing floor, or the Russian engineer from command and conquer 3 are fair game to me. But being like "ha you didn't guess Steve from Super Mario Kaizo romhack 3.2 Japanese" is just stupid.
Unicarn54 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:37:00 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The point of the whole "game" is to add more data to its database, so the more information you give it that it doesn't know, the better. It doesn't matter how "obscure" it is.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:30 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm aware of how it works. But eventually it can get ridiculous if you get too obscure with a game or too specific.
"I guessed: the first koopa paratroopa on stage 3-1"
"Oh. What is the answer then?"
Unicarn54 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:33 on July 15, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was stumping it with the main characters from an indie game that was on the top sellers on Steam.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:04 on July 15, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Ah yeah, that is something it shouldn't be stumped by
IUpvoteUsernames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just managed to stump it with Gwen DeLancy from The Riyria Revelations series, but I'm really impressed by how well it was able to guess some of my other ideas. I think your best bet for beating it these days is choosing side characters from semi-obscure novels.
nerdbomer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, that's a good choice.
I managed to stump it with the main characters from the Cradle series, but I'm not that surprised by that either. It's definitely less popular than Riyria.
these_days_bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:29:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Especially these days
irrelv ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:46:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It got me and my word was rhubarb
munnimann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Am I doing it wrong? It could neither find chemistry, chemical, nor ethanol/alcohol.
Now, it complains that my answers regarding alcohol were wrong:
20Q was guessing orange juice, coffee, lubricant, something naughty, a fetish, and then gave up.
MiddleBodyInjury ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:50:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think you definitely confused it by saying it can bend and can make things move
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:29:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think they want you to call alcohol a mineral. I looked up the rules and they were like "if it's not a living thing, then it's a mineral, since for example, big Ben is made out of metal and glass".
Alcohol is tricky in that it was both invented and not invented. I'm sure it was first found when someone ate bad grapes and was like "whoa, I'm so dizzy haha". Then they invented ways to mass produce it. And then later probably invented isopropyl alcohol (the way I see it, if someone can say that they invented Tide or Coca Cola, then someone invented rubbing alcohol).
Regarding moving something, I want to believe there are alcohol powered engines (I dunno if it's a joke, but I think I heard Russia had something that could run off burning alcohol in the ussr days). Hell.... I think that corn oil 85% shit that the us uses is alcohol.
MiddleBodyInjury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well certain drag racing cars run off of alcohol so that's true too. Alcohol simply means an organic molecule with an -OH group
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:29:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I tried doing testes and it decided it was naughty.
trisonreddit ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:03:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
โ404โ
sloohie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think Reddit broke 20 questions
aRandomPersonOnMars ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
:(
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:52:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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AngeloSantelli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Clever and great idea
Flast1633 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used taco
Salzberger ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 07:23:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I beat it just with guitar first time around.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 07:42:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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munnimann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It only got guitar after 26 questions, guessing a cello (bass violin), a trombone, a banjo, and a double bass first. It complains that my answers were wrong:
I'd argue that yes, some guitars (acoustic and electric) are white, even though the classical guitar usually isn't. None of the questions posed were suited to differentiate between classical, western, and electric guitar though. But I can accept that this answer was ambiguous.
In the same sense, a guitar sometimes has writing on it, in a decorative manner or in form of the maker's label on the inside. I answered "no", because I didn't want it to think of a book or screen. The answer most definitely isn't "yes" though.
Finally, the instrument we today refer to as guitar did indeed originate in Europe. Predecessors of the guitar can be found in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The modern guitar was invented in Europe, including also the western guitar.
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:54:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that's the weakness of the game. It needs players that understand how yes, no, usually, rarely works.
Most questions, realistically, will not be yes or no. They'll be usually (yes, but sometimes no) or rarely (no, but sometimes yes). And then even the hard yes or hard no questions can be too vague.
Like, lemme do a real life example for "computers". Now already that's a bad choice because an abacus and a calculator is a computer in that it solves math. But let's say I was thinking of "electronic computer, the kind that processes logic". Well, an MP3 player is a computer because it has logic functions. So I'll try to be fair and want it to find "desktop computer". So before the game began there was already confusion. Anyway:
Something you can wear?
You can wear a computer... I saw a guy wearing one in a meme. But normally you wouldn't, so I'll say NO even though the answer is really rarely.
Can it fit in an envelope? A Mac book air can as they showed in the commercials, but I'm thinking desktop computer, and we'll assume they meant letter sized envelop and not large one. Again, the answer should be rarely, but I'll say NO.
Does it refract light? The monitor can on a desktop computer set up, and my open case model that has a see through plastic "top" does... But I'll say no. Should be sometimes.
Can you walk on it? You can, but you shouldn't. This is a bad question because you can walk on anything physical. I'm not sure if it's asking "is it possible to walk on it?" (Anything that exists) "Is it possible to walk on it without ruining it?" (an egg) "Is it possible to on walk on it without harming yourself" (broken glass) "is it possible to walk on without getting in trouble?" (A cop, declaration of Independence). I'll assume they are asking if it's possible to walk on it. So I'll give it a YES.
Can you make pie from it? Easy NO
Is it used to make jewelry? I mean... I'm sure most jewelry cutting uses computers for precise cutting. But I assume it's asking if the computer is melted down to make jewels. Aside for recycling gold, no.
Can you hold it? It'll be hard to.hiod both the monitor and pc, but yes.
Is it a source of energy? Sometimes. Just ask my phone when it's low on energy.
Is it bad for your health? Studies show that sitting in front of a PC for a long time can increase odds of stroke and heart disease. But I'll say no because the OC itself is not the problem.
Is it bigger than a microwave? Easy sometimes.
Does it come in varieties? Yes
Is it a geology feature? No
Will it break if dropped? Sometimes. But I'll say yes since most computers do break at least a little.
Is it carved? No
Is it large? Sometimes.
Does it shine? I hate this one. Yes, sometimes they shine. Sometimes they're dull, sometimes they're reflective.
"I'm guessing it's concrete" terrible answer because concrete doesn't provide energy, and it isn't large.
Does it have ears? No
"I think it's a brick" no
I'd it in an office? Y
"Is it marble" no
Was it used over 100 years ago? No (not a desktop anyway)
"It's it heavy?" Sometimes
"Is it a printer?" Close
"Is it a laptop?" Close
It better get it right on the next one...
"Is it a computers" thank God, finally
You said it's classified as Mineral, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is Concept. Can you walk on it? You said Yes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No. Is it a source of energy? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No. Is it very large? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No. Does it shine? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
ShaRose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:38:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Inflatable mattress. After the "you won" 30 questions in, it at least showed sleeping bag.
Guessed blanket twice.
Dagmar_Overbye ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:41:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It took 25 questions and couldn't figure out I was thinking of a bat. Not impressed.
ConnorCG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:43:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It thinks a cooking pot is an animal.
Cassius__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:47:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I never had the toy but I spent a whole lot of time on this website when I was younger.
AngeloSantelli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Says itโs not found so....
futurespacecadet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:31:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i mean it got fucking 'black hole' and half my answers were 'unknown'. HOW.
Nezikchened ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was thinking of an octopus, so this is a little underwhelming.
Firewolf420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We broke the site, Reddit.
ponytoaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:31:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Crikey. I actually said prostitute but since it's probably family friendly I'd say it's ok.
Q19. ย I am guessing that it is a girlfriend? ย ย ย Is it straight?ย Unknown . 18.ย ย Does it win races?ย No.
17.ย ย Does it squirm?ย Yes.
16.ย ย Can you ride on it?ย Yes.
15.ย ย Can it bend without breaking?ย Yes.ย ย ย Can it climb?ย Unknown . 14.ย ย Does it come from something larger?ย No.
13.ย ย Can you make money by selling it?ย Yes.
12.ย ย Is it colourful?ย No.
11.ย ย Is it commonly used?ย Yes.
10.ย ย Is it small?ย No.
9.ย ย Is it smooth?ย Yes.
8.ย ย Does it have big ears?ย No . 7.ย ย Does it bring joy to people?ย Yes.
6.ย ย Does it have a backbone?ย Yes.
5.ย ย Is it smaller than a golf ball?ย No.
4.ย ย Is it a type of bird?ย No.
3.ย ย Does it live in water?ย No . 2.ย ย Does it have four legs?ย No.
1.ย ย It is classified asย Animal.
JotaJade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is if it's a website it's way less impressive because it can expand the database anytime and even use learning mechanisms.
logangrey123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:37:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Could not guess Cleopatra.
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:29:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That website gives you a TON of choices and asks non yes/no questions.
Plus it seems pretty dumb. I was going for cat and it guessed bratwurst. One of the questions was "is it a pet" which I answered yes.
Makonar ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 07:19:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I tried it. I was thinking of a CPU, but the site quessed chockolate...
Wacky_Dave ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 05:27:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mine still works, haven't changed the batteries in a decade
Tersias119 ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 05:35:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because it runs on magic
Needyouradvice93 ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 04:39:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. Virtually every time. It still kind of blows my mind tbh
jonloki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right! I tried to stump it with this like light, time, the encroaching dread of the universeโs vastness and our growing likelihood of killing our planet to the point of making it uninhabitable, and it got it 99% of the time.
mightyzezzer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 02:17:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So true
ShredLobster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:35:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I know right?!! I was and still am blown away with how accurate it is.
levitikush ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:05:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It can never guess corn. Corn is how you beat this dark magic.
Pay-Dough ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:31:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Right??? Damn OP, thanks for the memories. I completely forgot about this lil toy
bubbav22 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:33:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it guessed a platypus, like how was it right!?!?
-mopmop- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:23:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah for as old as it is, and with no internet connectivity, it was scary scary good at guessing.
rowdybme ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:09:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just played it in the store. It would let you play full games.
deepus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:31:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude mine got it wrong once!
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:26:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I tried being a potty mouth to trick it when I was younger.
It guessed "dik dik" and "pussywillow" :|
The thing that always got me was realizing it was onto you after like 5 questions. Like, you are thinking cat and so far you have said it is an animal that is bigger than a breadbox and not imaginary and it is like "does it purr?"
Drakenfar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:37:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No algorithm, just a good process of elimination. It always worked from the general to the specific.
gin-rummy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friend had one and that shit blew my mind every time. It ALWAYS worked.
LordStrafes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The original Akinator
AiKantSpel ยท 625 points ยท Posted at 02:49:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
NaCl-more ยท 480 points ยท Posted at 04:42:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes
thatdude473 ยท 234 points ยท Posted at 04:53:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used to just keep saying sometimes for every answer. This fucker would straight up still get it right!
trev1776 ยท 128 points ยท Posted at 05:30:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I believe thatโs because Sometimes was effectively yes.
Nazi_Marxist ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 08:21:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We've been bamboozled
MajorJakov ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:50:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We've been smeckledorfed
Papa_Nipples ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:59:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's not even a word and I agree with you!
LeConnor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 07:19:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs Kars! And heโs a vegetable because he stopped thinking.
Earlofargyll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:31:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Actually dude, it's salt
Big_Green_Piccolo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:27:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
does it fit in a bread box
FerrisMcFly ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 06:22:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Does it weigh more than a duck?
inquisitive_guy_0_1 ยท 77 points ยท Posted at 06:42:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How the fuck should I know how much a duck weighs?
Sometimes
MangaKitten1273 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 09:11:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can it be carried by a swallow across two countries?
SaulFrakinTigh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 10:51:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean, an African or a European swallow?
MangaKitten1273 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:52:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
European!
FailFTW ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:43:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It weighs the same as a witch.
ninjaguy454 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 07:25:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it larger than a breadbox? Lol I remember this one most clearly.
FerrisMcFly ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 07:53:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
11 year old me: wtf is a breadbox
brit-bane ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:13:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
For real the only reason I knew what that was was because of Iron Giant.
Australienz ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:18:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It now says โis it larger than a microwave (or a breadbox)?โ
Tumblrrito ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 06:41:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Does it weigh more than a pound of butter?
kharchung ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 06:58:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, but it weighs more than a pound of feathers
Reignofratch ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:38:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it steel? Cause steel is heavier than feathers.
kharchung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:17:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, this thing gets it every time
ninja_tokumei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But steel is heavier than butter :/
TheEterna0ne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:11:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If it weighs the same as a duck then itโs a witch.
BadKevDonkey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:04 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can it fit in a bread box?
Meawth ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:30:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'll go first. Im nanotechnology.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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Meawth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:43:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
is trish a boys name?
dcnairb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs a miracle how he get so lyrical
pokinfolks ยท 485 points ยท Posted at 02:43:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is what youโre thinking of located inside the average house?
15jackets ยท 222 points ยท Posted at 02:58:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
pokinfolks ยท 122 points ยท Posted at 03:01:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it something that you eat or drink?
15jackets ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 03:01:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
pokinfolks ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 03:02:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it easily carried by a person?
15jackets ยท 96 points ยท Posted at 03:02:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
pokinfolks ยท 90 points ยท Posted at 03:03:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it something that you wear?
15jackets ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 03:03:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
pokinfolks ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 03:05:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it alive?
15jackets ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 03:06:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Unknown
pokinfolks ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 03:08:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thinking...
Is it an electronic device?
15jackets ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:08:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
pokinfolks ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 03:11:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is the device small enough to fit in a pocket?
15jackets ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:11:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
pokinfolks ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 03:13:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Can the device be used for phone calls?
15jackets ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 03:13:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
pokinfolks ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 03:15:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it used for mathematics?
15jackets ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 03:15:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
pokinfolks ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:16:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it used to listen to music?
15jackets ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 03:16:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
pokinfolks ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 03:17:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it used for playing games?
15jackets ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 03:17:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
pokinfolks ยท 88 points ยท Posted at 03:18:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it used for playing a game called โ20 questionsโ?
15jackets ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 03:19:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
pokinfolks ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 03:19:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck.
15jackets ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 03:20:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good job, I did this once with it. It was self aware, very creepy
pokinfolks ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 03:22:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for playing, Iโm actually pretty impressed.
15jackets ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 03:24:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโm glad I got to relive some nostalgia
MotherfuckingWildman ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 08:03:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There should be a sub for this..
Spacesider ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 06:28:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most beautiful thing I have seen on the internet.
JustHere2Gat ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 09:15:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol @ "is it alive ?"
"Unknown"
RAMAR713 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:04:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's when I realised where this chain was headed
hiero_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:47:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We won't go
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:46:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So it's a Zune!
DIABLO258 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Are you thinking of a Gameboy?
15jackets ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:15:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
naymlis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:11:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Are you thinking of your computer? nerd...
15jackets ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:11:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
Mrtacomancan24 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:17:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Answer: Schrodinger's cat
FrozenGenitals ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:55:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
is it edible
mach4potato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
X-Files theme
scrapingthebarrels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it trapped in a box?
sydthesquid95 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:02:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes
polypeptide147 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not anymore
KingOfTheP4s ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a cat?
yamsnz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Does it fit inside a bread bin?
Dangermaelen ยท 1036 points ยท Posted at 02:58:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friends and I had it try and guess โvaginaโ. After 20 questions it guessed โpussywillowโ like the plant. We couldnโt believe it.
tenmileswide ยท 398 points ยท Posted at 03:39:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
In a similar vein it would guess dik-dik for, well, dick
[deleted] ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 05:13:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
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No_Warrening ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 05:21:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes.
Dare89d87 ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 05:37:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That's a big pussywillow
ialwayschoosepsyduck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or a tiny loaf
yomikemo ยท 184 points ยท Posted at 04:58:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
TIL vaginas & dicks have similar veins
ParalyzedTaillow ยท 207 points ยท Posted at 05:59:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There's actually a vas deferens between them.
malexj93 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 07:52:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had to scroll back up to upvote this after it clicked
dotslashhookflay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:11:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
God damn I just cackled
samharmes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 07:32:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This needs way more upvotes XD
Pshock13 ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 05:09:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the word you are looking for is 'urethra'
glimpee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:16:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Choose youre character
"Dik-dik van dik!!"
amelech ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha this so much! The first thought I had on seeing this thread was 'is it a dikdik'
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I commented higher up but both of those happened to me. I was trying to trick it and was floored by those answers lol
[deleted] ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 05:17:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friends and I did the same thing in a grocery store with the same result.
It started scrolling: P..U..S..S..Y.. and we just lost it.
apocalypse_later_ ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:30:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I would've bought it right then and there. That's hilarious
Secretstripper98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've been playing the online version of the game that was posted in this thread and it wont guess stuff like penis or even condom. Kinda wish there was a nsfw version of this game lol
RyanBordello ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:03:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
100% can confirm. I totally remember this.
pocket_mulch ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 07:07:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! We did the exact same thing.
Chromattix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I tried to make it say "Penis" (like any 13 year old would). It said a gland, which I guess is close enough lol.
PacmanNZ100 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:50:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You must have lied to it then. Plants arent animals.
chochy ยท 423 points ยท Posted at 03:01:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I would stump it by thinking of โassholeโ. I answered all the questions truthfully and it came up with โsphincterโ. I could not believe it!
Rowdybob22 ยท 133 points ยท Posted at 05:13:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I came here to say this exact same thing! The little bugger actually came up with sphincter! How in the hell. They must have known that teenagers would be thinking of these words.
RABBLE-R0USER ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 05:52:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I had it beat one time. It guessed the universe with ease.
Maestrul ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 07:12:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Sphincters are used in other parts of the body, like the esophagus and the joint between the stomach and the duodenum, so in reality he did not really guess asshole.
dotslashhookflay ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:15:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it's possible it was lucky, but I'm sure the programmer knew there would be teenagers playing this thing wanting to laugh at it guessing "vagina" or "dick" or something of the sort, but they couldn't just put in those words.
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That was my thought process to. That said I think it is worth affirming that it should be OK/expected for a teenager to know what a vagina/penis is.
JC_Mac7 ยท 244 points ยท Posted at 02:43:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Almost everyone I knew had one of these. We were convinced it could hear us. No idea how it worked. Interested in hearing how they programmed this thing to guess correctly 98% of the time.
Jaredlong ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 06:07:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It'd be more impressive if it was listening. Combining speech recogition, speech-to-text, natural language processing, and context analysis was cutting edge technology in the 90's. It'd be a miraculous accomplishment if a toy designer had managed to master it all and sell it for only $10.
cameralover1 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 07:22:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine they would've sold it that cheap as a toy to be able to fund the research and each little ball would educate some sort of AI
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 08:43:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Well then each toy would need to be connected to the internet to relay the info. And even to be able to use the APIs the guy above mentionned.
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:40:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not just connected to the internet, connected to the internet with a modem. I don't know if anybody that had cable internet or wifi when I was younger and played with one of these
cameralover1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:27:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I'm aware, I'm just saying that it would have been a crazy.
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:39:49 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Completely agree, I guess I misunderstood your point, sorry.
Australienz ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just stumped it with an octopus.
Questions
last guess
starmartyr ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 06:26:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's basically a flowchart. The answer to the first question leads to the second which leads to the third. The device seems like it's being intuitive and making deductions but it's just following a predetermined path. It seems impressive to us because no human would ever be able to memorize that many combinations of questions and answers, but it's a simple task for a computer.
Sage1969 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 06:55:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thats not the part thats impressive imo... its the absolute sheer number of answers it has stored. there must be millions. no matter how obscure I got, it could get it. I remember it even got side characters from a novel I was reading...
OneTrueFalafel ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 08:07:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is the part all these smartasses are forgetting
minastirith1 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 09:22:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wait are you serious?? I thought it could guess all the โgeneral knowledgeโ type items. Did it actually guess specific stuff from novels?? I donโt understand how that would be possible. Was it a very popular novel? Coz I can imagine characters from very famous books would be in there.
Sage1969 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 11:11:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Probably, it was something 14-yo me would have been reading.. maybe harry potter? or isaac asimov something.
But still. All of those items can't be tagged automatically, as far as I can figure. Each character, material, food, object, etc would need to have its characteristics saved somehow. that's the part that blows my mind even today, must have been an insane amount of legwork
AlwaysHopelesslyLost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iirc it always guessed generally like "is it a side character in a book?"
cbslinger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:28:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They had a website up in the 90s. Essentially they crowd sourced building their database by making it public. By the time they put these on shelves they'd had a lot of time to build it up.
amazingoomoo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:32:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I believe itโs 20 to the power of 20.
DenormalHuman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:31:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
its not a flowchart, its a big binary search tree
light24bulbs ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 06:10:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
First, it was an online browser game, which I played as a kid. It got more accurate as I played it, until eventually they used all of the learning from the browser game and put it into this embedded device, which is more well known than the online game the preceded it. Genius monetization strategy. The online game was actually more capable, since the embedded device only had a subset of the most common answers. Still works amazingly well though.
I believe it was a relatively primitive type of machine learning. An ML person could definitely say more.
malexj93 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 08:07:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's a decision tree, one of the simplest models in ML. It basically takes a bunch of samples from people answering questions and saying what they were thinking, and decides at each step "which question can I ask that gives me the most information?". Here, information is mathematically defined, so we can actually calculate which is the best. Once it has above a certain threshold of certainty (say, 99%) or reaches 20 question asked, it will guess the most likely option. There are some more advanced techniques that go into this to save memory and compute time, but in the grand scheme of ML it is very accessible.
Darkassassin07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator You could find it on most of the flash game sites. I remember spending hours on that thing with a couple friends.
/edit looks like its an android app now too. Probably on ios as well.
flavouriceguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:25:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who played alone as a child, definitely not listening.
mightyzezzer ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 02:11:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still play it
a2ndTiberianBat ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 02:12:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I need to go find mine now, I used to use that all the time on long car trips and just for fun when I was bored
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 03:32:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.akinator.com/
jbe1114 ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 05:07:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I forgot how insane Akinator is. I chose Pansy Parkinson, a small random Harry Potter character, and he got it lol
Edit: and now he correctly guessed Marshall from HIMYM lol
Scrubthumpin ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 05:29:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man I fooled the shit out of him with a video game reference just now. 74 questions and he quit
NJD1214 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 06:45:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It took 100+ questions to guess the video game character Regina from Dino Crisis.
musicaldigger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:52:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i loved that game as a kid, i thought it was so cool you could only save one of those guy characters
NJD1214 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Capcom left us hanging after Dino Crisis 2. I'm still pretty upset they never finished the story with Dillon and the girl etc.
TyrannyOfBobBarker_ ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 06:07:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stumped him with Kurt Vonnegut
sidekickman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:09:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Martin Scorsese for me.
jbe1114 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:30:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I stumped him with a video game character as well! Akinator is a phony!
DrBrogbo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:39:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just fooled him with Blake Stone. Akinator kept asking questions over and over and over hinting at Gordon Freeman.
thatnimrod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, first I tried John Cheese from the book/movie John Dies At The End and it nailed it in 31.
Then I tried Oscar โDr Gonzoโ Acosta from book/movie Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and it guessed Gabriel Iglesias. It gave up not long after I told it it was wrong, asked me to download the app.
leo3065 ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:15:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Akinator is amazing. I tried movie characters, I tried real people, I tried main character in different games, I tried champions in League of Legends, I tried Pokemon.
It got every single one right.
Also also for the animal one, I tried regular animals, I tried extinct animals, I tried frictional creatures in the mythology. Still pretty good.
arcanefox3 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 05:31:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It got fucking Pepsi man. It took 40+ question and at least one wrong guess, but it got it.
VanpyroGaming ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 09:11:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
PEPSI MAAAAAN
insecurity_desk ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:23:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stumped it with the character Twitchy from the movie Hoodwinked!
pm_me_your_buds ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:33:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was able to stump Akinator with Walder Frey (a minor Game of Thrones character) but only after he got 5+ other characters right
Netkid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:55:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I stumped it with Norman from Mighty Max.
lewdite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Didnโt work for me, I chose Dash Randar from the Star Wars universe (who was the protagonist of Shadows of the Empire on N64)
perkiezombie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Itโs not guessed three of mine on the bounce now! Akinator is a fraud!
VanpyroGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:53:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just did one, thinking of Edilio from GONE. It guessed the book but not the character. Going to dry Drake and Caine next.
jsha11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Each time someone plays it uses it to learn, so it can get these random characters because someone else would have tried it, it wouldn't have been able to guess it so then it asks what you were thinking of, then stores it so it can use it later on
ninja_tokumei ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:34:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now I want to know if he can guess Pappy Van Poodle correctly...
moosenaslon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It fucking got ice cream maker guy (willrow hood) from empire strikes back. Took like 25 questions then out of the blue it named him.
Crack-spiders-bitch ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 05:18:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
It just got Hiccup from How To Train your Dragon. I thought it would be confused when I said yes to the character being in a TV show even though the movies are more known. About half way through it asked about dragons and I knew I was fucked.
Edit. Can't get Ed from Lion King. It asked if it was associated with lions, if it was part odd a trio, if it made sounds instead of talking, but couldn't get it. First time I got to 75 questions before it gave up and the second time it got to 20 something before giving up. Can anyone get Ed.
Ffxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:43:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just tried and it even asked if it was part of the Lion King but still couldn't guess Ed on multiple attempts
elhaupto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:21:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The damn thing got a random vampire which was mentioned maybe twice in the Silmarillion. Itโs unbelievable.
PlatinumWitch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:21:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This actually got the character I was thinking of.
A guy that died in the second episode of Buffy the vampire slayer, had no real lines or dedicated scenes and ended up never being mentioned again.
Scary accurate! Thank you for sharing.
cameralover1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I got two wrongs in a row for me. Wraith from apex legends and the aliens guy meme from history chanel
Maybe4Porn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Canโt get Riley Reid :/ Iโm disappointed
mach4potato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:38:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I got through 50 questions before running out, and he couldn't guess Alexander Suvorov :(
KiraDidNothingWrong_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Remember guys you can use akinator to find stuff you didn't know about, e.g., describe a porn actor you would like to jerk off to and there you have it.
musicaldigger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:48:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
wow i was thinking of Emma Stoneโs character from La La Land and he guessed it in about 40 questions
wapkaplit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:04:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I stumped it with The Jesus from The Big Lebowski.
allunderrock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just beat it with Fenchurch from HGTTG
kitttxn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just tried this! My character was Fallon Carrington from Dynasty which I would say isnโt that hyped up of a show. He asked seemingly basic and general questions. By question 24 he got it. Wtfffff
FlawlessWictory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:31:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Stumped it with Marvin the Martian
JenovaCelestia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:47:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It didn't guess the character I was thinking of (Joe Bonham from Johnny Got His Gun) but he was on the list they show afterward!
Buka-Zero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:15:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
holy shit, it got molly millionhs from neuromancer by william gibson, mind blown
Ruler1143 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator somehow got the main guy from wow wow wubbzy and I probably answered a couple wrong
mightyzezzer ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 02:13:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still dont understand how they get what your thinking
DIABLO258 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:12:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's based upon tags, and simply narrowing down the results. Each "Guess" has certain tags so it only appears when certain questions are answered in a specific way. Answering these questions eliminates certain "Guesses" and the list just gets shorter and shorter until it thinks it's found the correct "Guess"
If it's wrong it just keeps narrowing it down.
I'm just guessing btw
Drixzor ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:13:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Binary search basically
irrelv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:48:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
www.20q.net
AlsionGrace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:03:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mine thought a hummingbird was a human head.
RobloxianNoob ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 02:44:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator, is that you?
AiKantSpel ยท 131 points ยท Posted at 02:52:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator is easy to beat. Its knowledge of Scandinavian New Wave cinema is sorely lacking.
RobloxianNoob ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 03:33:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Idk man, I just trick it by thinking of Grovyle while it guesses Sceptile like a fool.
CharmeIeon ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 08:47:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Grovyle is superior to Sceptile in yet another way
pm_me_your_buds ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:34:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Or any of the 1000s of minor Game of Thrones characters.
UploaderThree ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:31:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i like you
creeperReaper42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It couldn't guess Teal'c
JollRoints ยท 301 points ยท Posted at 02:28:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yep my favorite pass time as a kid. I always wondered how they worked
joshua9663 ยท 209 points ยท Posted at 03:12:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It essentially narrows it down based on the number of questions until it is reasonably confident that it knows the answer then it guesses. Think of all the people in the world I can eliminate by asking: is it a female? Is she in movies? Has she acted in a romantic comedy? And so on. The system prefers to ask questions that will eliminate the highest number of things or people based on the answer.
Cynical_Manatee ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 05:21:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, you don't even have to start at the most dividing question, you can ask your general questions in any order to come to the same subset of possibilities.
everyones-a-robot ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 06:57:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
But not in the same number of rounds (probably).
It's definitely better to be greedy with your algorithm in this case.
ic33 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 07:06:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
But you have dividing questions that remove other questions' applicability: you want to divide the set so that you can only ask useful questions and not waste asks.
Slacker5001 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 08:11:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Statistically speaking I think you worded this wrong. If your thinking of something and I ask you if it's a potato and I was right, I would have just eliminated the highest number of options. But you don't want the machine to ask a million specific questions. You want it to ask general ones and narrow it down.
Ideally the machine asks questions that take all the available options and divide them in half (assuming yes or no questions). So every time it would be getting rid of the highest number of things it could for sure eliminate every time.
LiveBeef ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 03:11:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pastime*
This thing was spooky good though
GonnaGetSomeHop-Ons ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I like "pass time" - it's what it was for, after all
jesse2h ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 06:00:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/boneappletea
SuzyQ2099 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:19:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We had on sitting in the bathroom near the toilet for years. Then Reddit, and now I have no idea where it is.
po2gdHaeKaYk ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:20:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You can look it up. The original patent is described well by the engineer who filed the patent.
It's essentially a neural network. The machine keeps track of lists of questions and lists of objects. Each question and object has a possible set of answers (yes/no/etc) and each answer has a probability.
As the game is played, the probability adjusts. This is the neural network. The original author created the game on a floppy disk and passed it around to be played. Once these probabilities have settled, they can be hard coded into the machine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:29:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Whoever he is, I hope heโs rich.
Drippyer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:07:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This video uses Guess Who but itโs pretty much the same concept, really interesting stuff and actually makes sense when you think about it.
HyperlinkToThePast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:30:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
you never thought about it?
DrCrygor ยท 47 points ยท Posted at 02:51:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude those things were dope. Mine correctly guessed electron.
Videocentralislife ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:51:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mines upstairs RN... waiting to be used
tohara1995 ยท 109 points ยท Posted at 04:34:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. There was one question that enraged my father. "Does it weigh more then a pound of butter?" My dad: a pound of butter weighs the same as a pound of dog shit!
NeonLime ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 08:03:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That ain't dog shit
THAT IS DOG SHIT
smsevigny ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 09:58:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This was by far the most annoying question...a pound is a pound, why did they think they needed to qualify it with anything, much less butter
xhephaestusx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:58:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's funny lmao, the game was definitely programmed with a sense of humor. For penis it would guess the dik-dik, some sort of African deer thing if I remember correctly, for vagina, pussywillow, and I think I remember it guessing tit for boob... cuz it's a bird, yknow
commander_nice ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 05:34:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that boggled my mind is how in the world they included so much in there. Presumably someone had to take all those terms and say which of the categories each falls into. The rest of it, figuring out which questions to ask and narrow down an answer, must have been pretty easy to program.
Camenwolf ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:27:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It used an artificial neural network, a sort of self evolving AI based on the input of millions of users over a period of years. They didn't actually code the "guesses". They developed an AI framework that learned as it was used.
It's fascinating, quasi-spooky stuff. I believe you can still play at http://www.20q.net although when I tried it just now the site was down. Hopefully just for maintenance.
morphinapg ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 09:12:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Artificial neural networks didn't exist when this thing came out. Plus it wasn't connected to the internet for the data you'd need to do something like that.
Womble_Don ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:00:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
He's mostly wrong, but not far off.
20Q did use artificial neural networks based on peoples responses to get the right answer, it developed over time and then in 2004 they basically copy and pasted the knowledge base they had built up into the handheld device shown above, so the data was stored on it locally, but the original data was generated through a neural network (which has been around since the 1940s btw)
morphinapg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure I played these in the 90s
Womble_Don ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, they were licensed for production in 2003
Camenwolf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:47:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I think you are saying "mostly wrong" because my comment is overly simplified. Which is fair. But the motivation for my comment isn't an in depth explanation of neural networks or AI or how the 20q implemented this technology, or maybe more correctly, the results of this technology.
I just kept seeing posts by people who expressed wonder in how the programmers could conceive of so many possibilities and program the "guesses" as if they hand coded the logic for many millions of possibilities, which is a logical assumption for someone who is unfamiliar with the concept. My goal is just to set anyone who is interested on the right research path.
Womble_Don ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah dude, I'm very much on your side. But your use of "it" implied that the handheld toy used artificial neural networks, which it certainly didn't, but it is based on work done by ANNs.
The people who replied to you were more wrong than you
Camenwolf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:47:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, that's very true, although I feel it's a bit knit picking, as my point was simply that the toy was not built by programmers meticulously coding the logic for millions of choices, rather the logic was built by a neutral network.
It's almost as if I showed someone a print of an oil painting and told them it was done using oils as opposed to acrylics or what have you. No it's not an oil painting, it's a print. But it's a print of an oil painting and to knit pick about that is just refusing to see the forest for the trees and to argue simply for argument's sake.
I read your other posts. I know you have a clear understanding of the technology. A couple of other guys, one in particular, just jumped on here and really indicated ignorance then when I linked him to some articles, started doubling down claiming that the plethora of references were the ones that were wrong, not him.
People are amazing in their tenacious grasp of their own misinformation and ignorance.
aStarryBlur ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:08:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They built the algorithm using extensive user-testing. Once it was 'finished' they put it on the devices. The device wasn't connected.
Camenwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of linking you individual articles, because there are very very many, just use this Google search and do a little research.
https://www.google.com/search?q=20q+neural+network&oq=20q+neura&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39.5768j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
stu2b50 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
1) definitely does not use a neural network
2) neural networks don't "evolve" they do hill climbing with gradients
3) neural networks would be fucking awful at this
4) they did binary search
Womble_Don ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The database was generated by an artificial neural network over the course of 20 years, in 2004 they put what they had into the handheld device, so the knowledge was stored locally and didn't require a neural network or online, but was still data created by an ANN
stu2b50 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Am I falling for Poe's law or do you actually believe in this word salad
Womble_Don ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You must be pretty stupid if you think that's word salad, my comment came out as 22-23 year old on a reading grade test.
Here's some more info:
stu2b50 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 10:17:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Good lesson on when to look deeper into wikipedia articles. The sources are dubious to say the least.
One is the archive of a 2006 talk which says some vague bullshit about AI, the other is the FAQ which looks it was made in the 90s and gives equally brief, empty answers.
The way both talk about "neurons" and "connections" is just ridiculous. Neural networks are layers of relu(w@x + b). Any connection with "neurons" is just trying make it look fancier than it is.
Here are reasons to believe it's not a neutral network
1) it fucking predates word2vec
2) you're not running a neural network on that level of hardware
3) some like boosted trees would almost certainly be preferred for tiny embedded hardware
4) or yknow binary search
Womble_Don ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you think I am saying that the handheld device has a neural network inside it?
Supersnazz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:42:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's correct. What part don't you understand?
Camenwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Instead of linking you individual articles, because there are very very many, just use this Google search and do a little research.
https://www.google.com/search?q=20q+neural+network&oq=20q+neura&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39.5768j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
stu2b50 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I actually did Google it, and there is literally nothing to support that idea. In fact, the only technical link suggests a decision tree.
It's just vague phrasing about their "AI" on their own website.
Honestly, I'd be impressed if they used a neural network because it's like making a house out of ice cream. It's just completely the wrong tool for the job.
If I had to guess, it's just a decision tree fit on surveys.
RICKY-SPANISH898 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 02:53:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Use to play this on long road trips when I was on vacation with my family as a kid, I could never think of anything it didnโt guess, I was impressed
CommodoreFiftyFour ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 03:09:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was able to beat it. It would never guess 'tire iron'. Always guessed 'crowbar' instead, hah
krakajacks ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 06:03:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you were wrong and were actually confused which is which.
gimli2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:02:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It can't guess crutches either
SADMANCAN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:26:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
weathervane. I tried it several times. Itโs the only time I won that I can remember.
Thebazilly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:00:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The only time I stumped it was with Galapagos marine iguanas. It guessed lobster.
brother-mas ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 02:13:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Didnโt ask for it, Still got it for Christmas....
pygmy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:11:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
daughter's using this on the sleeper bus whilst we're holidaying in Vietnam atm
ATDiplomat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I asked for a tamagotchi and got this instead. Was disappointed till I found out just how good it was
Karbonation ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 04:24:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being in middle school. A friend brought this to a scout meeting and of course, I thought of a penis and tried to make it say it.
After about 3 tries trying to get it to say penis and failing, it asked me if it was a dikdik. I was describing a penis, and that's what it guessed. We couldn't stop laughing at that.
Wetness_Protection ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 04:09:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I managed to beat it growing up but I guess it was a bit of a cheat. My object in mind was the 20 question ball itself, which it could never guess. I remember being very entertained when I discovered this as a kid.
Thepancakeman1k ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 06:30:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had one guess itself, it would say "you are thinking of... Me!!" And then I'd be surprised Pikachu
amazingoomoo ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 08:35:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah definitely remember that too
Wetness_Protection ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:12:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thatโs really interesting, I wonder if it depended on the age of the 20 Q ball / itโs software. Now I want to dig it up and try it again.
Level21 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:55:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Growing up? Me and my wife and daughter play this in the car now.
Verstrata ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:41:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Anybody else only play it while walking through Walmart with mom?
solomoncaine7 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 02:42:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I play this now. With my co-workers. When I'm trying to figure out what our boss just told them our assigned tasks are!
What are we doing?
Work.
What kind of work?
The hard kind.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:59:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
there was one time when I wasnโt allowed to bring my gameboy on a road trip so I brought this instead lol
brucecastle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:41:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not allowed to being your gameboy on a road trip? What kind of parents did you have or what kind of trouble did you get in to because that was the whole point of the gameboy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
boomer parents who thought video games were evil lol
TorrenceMightingale ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 03:26:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Get this Devil magic away from me!!
TheCannabalLecter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 06:01:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smaller than a breadbox?
QuirkySquid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:50:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it bigger than a bread box?
Naters_Taters ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 03:49:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
this is definitely one of those pictures that you can hear
milotic615 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:46:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I loved playing this game when I was little. It was always right. I had the one where the colors would change when you touched it. It was orange and yellow.
X2ytUniverse ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:08:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's still thinking
alex-english ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:19:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dik Dik
theredneckredditor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:30:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I got one in my tool box at work! When I'm on my ten and stressed I play this. Never changed the batteries too!
SippycupStudios ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 07:01:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
more like it played us, am i right?
1d10 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was a dept manager in toys at Walmart when these came out, I opened a few and left them in areas where people had to wait for service, sold a shit ton of em.
Boo__Ghost ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:29:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pls no hate but can someone please tell what this is?
Awholebushelofapples ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 05:16:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
20 questions
Solidcancer07 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:34:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A toy from the 90's/2000's (?) that would guess what you're thinking of, most of the the time within 20 questions
Betweengreen ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:48:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember as a kid being absolutely mind-fucked when it correctly guessed โatomโ. I really thought I had come up with the most obscure answer possible lmao
EnsignEggplant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:05:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Those things are the damn devil!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
ekip813 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:56:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
God this brought back soooo many memories
Melairia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:24:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had a Harry Potter one a long time ago. I freaking loved that thing so much.
WordStained ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:35:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! I loved the Harry Potter one. I remember having to get really obscure to beat it.
shadowslayler1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:49:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thought of doing a Pokemon to fuck with it one day. Fun fact: it knows what a Pikachu is.
MASTER___WILL ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:10:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my god that game was the best!
sweetnothingmimi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:02:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We used to write down what the word was because we thought it could hear use it was so accurate
Zoftic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:45:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for unlocking one of my hidden memories
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:59:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Man, that thing was creepy as fuck.
Dwn_Wth_Vwls ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:28:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone who wants a more modern version that will creep you out with how accurate it is can check out the Akinator.
https://en.akinator.com/
LeighBunny84 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:10:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have it, still works and my children now try to win against it. :-)
shoeless_sean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:45:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still remember getting one of these for Christmas and playing it in the car the whole car ride down visiting family with my dad and stepmom. I remember how jarring it was to them when it would just ask "is he/she black (or white)" cuz the question was outta nowhere and blunt.
CleanGreazzee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:38:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine. Still works. It just got baseball right.
gritty600 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:47:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
20 questions right. Used to be amazed by that games
Bellyheart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was a great drinking game for alone time.
A1b2c4d3h9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have my older brothersโ in my room. Iโve only used it a few times but itโs pretty awesome
LegendaryL1nk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:18:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No I was told if I thought too hard it would hurt
DetectiveGinoFelino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The music one was also really good. Sometimes I would ask my dad to think of a person or band that I didnโt know of and it would get it most of the time.
chynapowder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:31:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have it!!! When I was little I swore it was spying on me sometimes! And it still works fyi.
no_stick_drummer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:32:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had one of those like 5 years ago
uPtiKool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:34:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Always refers to it as the devil's toy it always got things right to a Scarry degree
sebyjc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:36:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing knew me better than my parents did.
Fil0rican420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:37:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you didnt see if it would guess penis you weren't doing it right
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:42:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My best effort to stump this thing was making it take 24 questions to guess โcomputer mouseโ correctly.
CMihas10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I completely forgot about this! This shit was amazing
zestyliver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:44:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It got my brothers answer which was a fart!
lizard-bacteria ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have a Simpsons one and 8 out of 10 times it gets one off characters and locations right. Way more impressive then I expected.
Yeldarb92WasTaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude I'm gonna have to dog though some old boxes when I get home.
Buckminsterfullabeer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:00:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a fetish?
TidyUpJim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:11:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I played the one that had the fast spining lights that made up the display
calebtabor11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It never guessed โLigerโ so I always won
Lboettcher2003 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:16:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator Classic Edition
tacoman1287 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still use the question "Is it smaller than a bread box?" when I play with my son. He doesn't get the reference.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:19:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had one but could never get it to work :(
TheBookishPurpleOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:20:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Haha. Pretty sure I still have mine, unless I purged it the last time I moved house... Can't quite remember.
Uh_oh_its_a ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:23:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mine was red with different buttons, but hell yeah!
LemonJuice6386 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
GoodTato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:27:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
AAaaAAaAAAAAAAAAa
yes
spr_wl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:30:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have a few lying around the house. I don't think that they work anymore, I would ha e to check. I did have a long rectangular one though.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:33:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I got in trouble as a kid becuase i asked my dad what a urethra was because my brother thought it was funny to see if it would say dick.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have this in my bedside drawer.
TheHamster04 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:36:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I swear all these โnostalgiaโ posts literally spied on my childhood to reap in the karma on these posts.
KohnDre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have 1 of these, and was playing it last week. I couldn't get it to guess Honey Badger, just raccoon. It must not give a shit
NoArmsSally ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:55:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This is how I figured out my crush liked me. Too bad I moved 4 months before then.
portoconnor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:58:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I love these things!
kidJubi100 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still got one!
TuneSquad22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was able to guess "naked mole rat". Unreal.
YangKoete ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:59:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had the one that was weirdly oval-y.
quamps ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:04:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing was actual magic, but somehow nobody talks about it. Like seriously this shit worked. It new I was thinking about big dicks.
Poobistank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friends dad helped make this and I remember him having a bunch of weird games they were โtestingโ. I donโt remember any specifics, but they were all fun.
Mrcow105 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes bois
CrudelyDrawnDedede ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One time it actually guessed that I was thinking of the abstract concept of Time. I locked it in a drawer after that.
Has_Question ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:08:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
when me and my cousin would go shopping at kmart with my mom and aunt we'd grab one of these and walk around the toy section playing with it unti lwe had to go. Never actually bought it but I put some hours into it for sure.
Crawf92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I play this game with my students as an ESL in Korea. This ball was crazy accurate.
Pshock13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty sure my little sister still has hers somewhere
NickFoxMulder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have one on my nightstand right now. These things are badass lol
Awholebushelofapples ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:10:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a dik dik?
ViperiumPrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The battery NEVER RAN OUT. I remember tossing it into a moving bin years later and it still played the startup song
Swindle123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smaller than a breadbox?
cinnarue003 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Best way to pass time on a road trip ever
lilfool ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have one that changes color every time it gets hot and cold
PeytonManGOAT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember thinking this thing is so stupid, it said womb when I was thinking about a vagina. jokes on me
thatonerandomguy56 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:16:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I believe so let me think about it
GoonieGal1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bought one almost 15 years ago for my little brother. He just found it again and now my son has it. Can't believe it still works.
souliloquy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friend and I went with Capybara once and it guessed it...these things still bewilder me
say_it_aint_slow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We had one of these in Iraq! It defiantly helped pass the time and blew us away a couple times!
say_it_aint_slow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Por ejemplo, one time I was thinking ghost, and it guessed it right! I thought I would of had it stumped with that one.
Flex-Tape-Gamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Just saw one of those today, wondered what it was
TheArgonianKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
KrundTheBarbarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:26:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still play it through Alexa.
1plus1equalsfun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen one of these before. I'm guessing that you're supposed to think of something, and it's supposed to guess what it is that you're thinking about, by answering its questions?
AnnieB512 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We still carry one in the car for road trips
Logan_Fairs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I loved these things as a kid but it always used to creep me out when it got it right. It was like magic to me.
starraven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, this was it.
MrNapalm997 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:33:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My mom had this when she was a kid, and then bestowed it upon me. I'm pretty sure it's on the same batteries, too.
MurasaKiso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, never heard of this until now.
BiggieGames ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:36:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ahead of itโs time
Tetraphobe4444 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:37:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine...
MunchamaSnatch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Actual quote from a game with my two older brothers - "Oh I dont know. Can you eat it?" "Well yeah. Sometimes. If youre weird" "What is it?!?!".........."A rock"
amondohk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:39:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This bastard migrated to the internet and became sentient, calling itself Akinator.
xclcoold14x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had an orange one, man I loved that thing.
Krondelo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah while it's impressive and mind blowing as others have said its obviously a clever algorithm mixed with process of elimination. Still i remember i tried to fool it with something more obscure like a smoking pipe and sure enough it got it. I was super impressed!
DiscardedSlinky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It always knew! I was never able to stump it!
senorsmartpantalones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There was a Pokemon one at the store a little while back.
It sucked. Couldn't guess my Pokemon it went 0 for 3.
_scythian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:44:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I once chose "uvula" and it fucking got it
MamaW47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:45:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I found mine recently and it still works scarily well
Sensimya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:46:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I just found mine like a week ago lol.
NotProPotato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude I completely forgot about this, me and my dad and brother would do that all the time before we got put to bed
Iron_brane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My mom still has 1 or 2 in the game closet
Sonypony6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this holy shit
Drunken_Economist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator before the internet, basically
Kirkalmighty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:05:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinking....
SchnitzNG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:07:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine. Itโs chilling in my room on my desk
JagerPrime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one of these upstairs, a red one I believe.
MyPenWroteThis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Theres an Akinator app now, that genie that could read your mind on the internet.
Big problem now though. The fuckers decided monetize. Now if you pick a good character, it says "this is a premium character" before asking you to buy the app, and you don't get to see if it actually knew who you picked.
Anyway 20Q is cool.
B0Boman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:12:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, I still have mine!
rrosko2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:13:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
unknown
strongbadinater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:15:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, but everyone I work with likes to play it. /s
_Nart_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I logged more hours into that than botw
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:17:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thereโs a button on there which make choice for Me ๐ฌ
soupyllama03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit yes. That was THE time killer
jaipratheek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:22:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know about that but I had fun playing hide and seen with my dad. It was so fun and he was so good at it, it's been 14 years and I still can't find him.
PaintVomit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:23:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! I still have 2 although the screen of one of them has a few broken lights
Gravelsack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:25:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I once stumped this thing by thinking of an electronic 20 questions machine. It could not guess itself.
CloverCarbine556 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember them always dying on me
Konsecration ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:29:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinking no...
Unhappily_Happy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
got one in my drawer at work. never used it. is it good?
Absylon7799 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
NO JOKE, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.
BlooFlea ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That thing blew my mind
VexorShadewing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:31:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
TYLERYU007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I did.. but it always lied :(
uncle__unagi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:32:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, now I hate my life.
DrBag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:36:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Iโve got mine in a drawer next to me !
brothermonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:37:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Magic 8 balls bring back so many memories
TuxedoWolf07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
About you
TheHound67426 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:39:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I legit still have mine
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OG wiretap we calledโem
porncrank ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Crazy - just today I was cleaning out my closet and came across mine. It's red. Batteries were dead so it wasn't working. I was thinking of just tossing it, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So it went back into the box of mementos and other cool things that I don't feel like parting with for one reason or another. And here it is a few hours later on reddit.
mclannahan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:41:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have one in my desk
ZEFAGrimmsAlt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I did.. until Akinator.
Carbonifed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
late to the party, but i remember stealing this at my schools christmas sale. someone caught me, and my friend wanted to buy it the next remaining day but i was forced to sell it to some little girl and i never seen one since
SlidingInfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have one
OffsiderYoutube ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:44:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I played the fuck out of it
GSturges ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Could you imagine one of these now? With WiFi?...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It got the word fence. How? Idk. Black magic.
Squiddy_101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:45:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, i just remembered these
mcook0088 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:46:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing freaked me out with its accuracy and I hid it in a drawer like that would stop it.
_ThatD0ct0r_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I swear this thing was sentient... But it does seem to be going in that direction: http://www.20q.net/
_GarfieldsThiccAss_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:47:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I loved playing with this! I completely forgot it existed!
Rachter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
SORCERY!!!!
WhyYouHating123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:51:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I stole one of those things from Toys "R" Us when I was a kid it worked I played with it for about an hour then never used it again
MerleSweatshirt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:26:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the attention span of a typical thief
sithlordmaster181 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Used to? I still do.
adeptbubbles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I distinctly remember that it wasn't able to guess paper.
eqleriq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:55:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, nobody else. What is this invention of yours
runningthroughcircle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had a limited editon snowflake one that I got for Christmas while my brother got a regular blue lol. The snowflake one was actually super cute tho ngl
GhostToast-kun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:58:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember having this but what did it do I don't remember?
twinsisterjoyce ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes!
dominus_nex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:59:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a modern app version of this?
n0b0dyc4r35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:00:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
no but I had one of these when I was 8 ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console)
_staarstream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:02:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I has this excat one haha I think it's still at my Grandmas house, few times It didn't know what I was thinking of, but most were right.
bananabears36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:07:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yes
mwpfinance ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:08:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Unknown. I'm thinking... No.
BigPapaPumpin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:10:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Black magic.
MrGamerNaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy crap!!! You just set off a lot of memories within me
MrGamerNaut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This was the original akinator tbh
ElKaio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Thing is witch craft
rhinobin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:12:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Same as the Akinator app
ConorTheFish12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
sometimes
Littlefoot1532 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:13:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine sitting on my desk!
Drewster_Rooster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've fooled it a couple of times
faulty_yt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still use it
The-Yeetor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:16:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had magic Jin
ffsff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have a spot dedicated to one of these in my travel pack. It is never stored anywhere else!
lmaes246 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:27:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember trying this thing in stores.
It sucked.
sonoranoel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one!
chillneck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have mine, a red one! Loved it!
PalmSpaghetti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:30:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And it always knew. I told people to shut up because I thought it heard us thinking out loud.
Kadderin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:33:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I play this game with people all the time and they can't believe how good I am at guessing the answer. I have this little toy to thank.
murdokdracul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:34:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing could even guess Pikachu!
FoG_Steven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
iM tHiNkInG.โข.
DeadNotSleepy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Damn, thats a blast from the past.
Dinkle-Johnson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:37:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have a working one I got In elementary in my drawer
ninjasmastas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I dont even know what is it
RazorMime ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it Walt Disney?
Bl00d0fTheIrish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
How dare you pull this memory out from the depths of my brain
Iron_Beagle25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:44:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
Flobarooner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:46:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
dude holy shit
obsertaries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Once it guessed bok choy and I was like dude what how does it even.
devedander ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I always liked this guy
https://en.akinator.mobi
Jpyr15 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:48:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember my friend owning a Harry Potter one
phobosinadamant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:49:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My led display broke so you couldn't make out words, just random dots scrolling, car journeys were never the same again :(
gamageeknerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:50:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No you arenโt thinking. You are reading my mind because there is no way you got koalas when the last question you asked is do humans eat them.
jfrudge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OG Akinator
xandora ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
A friend had one of these that was damage and couldn't display one vertical line on the LCD. Turns out that it was the exact line that it needed to display the "i" in "nail" for "it's a nail!"...
"It's a na l!"
Yep. Anal.
Trailman80 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:51:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I still have mine its red
TheAndySan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
r/fuckimold
thisusernameis_real ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still don't know how the fuck it guessed it right everytime. When I went to sleep my dad would sirt next to me and we would play a game of this
animatronic_gnu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:55:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Once i tried to trick it by describing it, and sure enough it's answer was 20Q lol
myotherxdaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I forgot about this. Thank you for the nostalgia!
macfriend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:58:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The akinator before akinator
Ashhin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My uncle would think that it could hear what you were picking an not say it out loud an write it down on a piece of paper. After it didnโt work he would say that itโs rigged an the government is involved.
Edgemonger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have mine! Itโs wider and more of a triangular prism, though.
AlsionGrace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mine thought a humming bird was a human head, or maybe it was the other way around.
EAJ97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What is this? The YouTube comments on a 5 year old video?
jeremy7718 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
no, you're literally the only one
diggle1114 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:07:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I spent hours in car rides on that
Redrar00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Got one on my night stand
KOOOOPOOPPPOOOLLLOOO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:09:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes!
robot_ninja_dude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
wishgrantedyo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:10:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
20q.net !!! You can play it online
Joe_s47 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
R/nostalgia
courtmcc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:11:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one!
SPRTN-1873 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
'UNKNOWN'
X015 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It came out in 2004 when I was 23 so no. I got one still though. Thing is it was quickly overshadowed by that Genie guessing app.
SmearyLobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:13:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yes i loved this thing! so fun
i once asked my mom if she was cold or warm blooded because she was the thing i was thinking about
SophisticatedStoner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:14:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One of the questions it would ask was "is it heavier than a pound of butter?"
Which annoyed me because a pound of butter is the same weight as a pound of anything else! Why not just say one pound?
MrLukeMc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
but steel is heavier than feathers
ShitFacedSteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The most impressed I ever was with this thing is when it correctly guessed "Three-toed sloth" on its first try.
colonelbyson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:15:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have it! I use it on long airplane rides to keep my mind occupied. Or on the bus/rail.
Ghotilad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:19:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Akinator's grandaddy
Tyrannosaurusb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:20:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smaller than a loaf of bread?
Shinigamionryo1379 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have mine in working order. Pick it up time to time
SnarkySchnitzel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:23:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one of those in my drawer
Camenwolf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:24:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It used an artificial neural network, a sort of self evolving AI based on the input of millions of users over a period of years. They didn't actually code the "guesses". They developed an AI framework that learned as it was used.
It's fascinating, quasi-spooky stuff. I believe you can still play at http://www.20q.net although when I tried it just now the site was down. Hopefully just for maintenance.
jwalker3181 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's up and working for me
-Not_a_Doctor- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:25:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, No, Sometimes
Tropicanical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:26:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The original Akinator
TheTrueRolando ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:27:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hmm what is this
itisverynice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Old memories...
Galt42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The original AI
Darkassassin07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As others have said, the device itself is relatively simple following a flow chart and taking paths on that chart based on your answers.
I'd be interested in how that flow chart was originally created though. How did they wind up with that particular chart being able to answer 99% of the puzzles you gave it?
please-end-this ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:33:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used to enjoy pressing the answer buttons in random order just to see what this confused boi would come up with.
lukeangmingshen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:34:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm convinced this thing was created by aliens
BadApplicant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:35:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
what a vapid post
Trappinoutdahbando ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Now I play this game with cops every time I get pulled over :)
Swenyspeed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Painal
Solidcancer07 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I played this growing up. But I never actually owned one. Never even attempted to ask my parents to buy one. But every time we went shopping, I'd play this in the toy section through the packaging. Good times
ThunderAlex2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:37:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm thinkingโฆ
MrMcHappyBurger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Di Moloto
Javidor42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Legit, I actually still have one in my room.
I remember once I called a friend, told him I could find out anything and used this without telling him. He was astounded.
jwalker3181 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I keep mine on my headboard to wind down from my day. Those simple questions clear my head
cringechi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:41:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Red one looks cooler
EightBitBite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:42:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean this device specifically, or the game in general? Yes or no will suffice.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I saw it guess pocket lint once...
walkiestalkie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still got my glow in the dark one working just as well as it did back then!
mintybadger23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So this is all you have to do to get 15k upvotes, post a pic of an old piece of tech?
daemoz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:44:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes
casey_you_later ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:45:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had one that guessed which Simpsons character you were thinking of. I used to answer based on myself and use it as a "what Simpsons character are you?" quiz
darklink12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I lost half my tooth to one of these things. So this doesn't bring up positive feelings
nupanick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but I want a reverse version where you ask it questions and guess what it's thinking -- that'd be WAY more impressive.
unlucky_overlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used to take it on holidays and get stopped in airport security every time. Small round device, with a screen, 4 buttons and full of wires - it has to be a bomb!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The old Akinator
Fluxriflex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had the spinning holographic dome one as a kid. I loved that thing.
MrMonotone009 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:54:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
kaas298 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:57:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and it scared me
LoyolaProp1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:58:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
These were great on long road trips for Boy Scouts.
Bastian_5123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smaller than a toaster oven?
AtamisSentinus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have the Jedi Holocron version of this. It can be pretty damn accurate. It can even recognize a good amount of KotOR-related content to boot!
anothertatabox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Omg! I always wanted one
fishcakeuzumaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I swear playing this as a kid at night gave me short sightedness
NotAGoddess ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:02:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine and it still has the same batteries from the early 2000s.... Maybe 90s, i don't remember when I got it. It still works!!!
rangaman42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit I had a red one! Still have it somewhere.. I remember using in the dark for so long my vision was green for like 20 minutes straight...
NinaPinata ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:06:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, these were awesome! The first thing I thought of was our dog, fully expecting it to just say "dog" as the answer, but it guessed the EXACT BREED. Blew my freaking mind!
-AdamTheGreat- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:07:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My kids have the pokeball version of this. Itโs pretty fun!
DemisecNothings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:10:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it a dik dik?
CaptainKirk55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I played this while I pooped
Diane_Degree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:11:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No. But I played is as a young adult.
FuqStix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:12:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, I remember this fucker haha that thing made my childhood
xXWerefoxXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Never had that. What is it?
SystemError514 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine. Had it for ages.
VarunDM90 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:15:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What is this thing?
woodendog24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:17:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wanted one of those so badly
SganarelleBard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:18:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was pretty great, but I could never get it to guess anvil
HerbnBrewCrw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I worked for the guy who made this product a decade ago. My job was to "teach" the AI the right answers. I sat in a room with a dozen other people "programming" the AI by answering questions over and over.
It was a cool job.
accioleesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:20:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I always plays 20q on ratings apps ๐
2018InANutshell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:21:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and I lost my 20q po ket game litterally last week. F in replies plz
BBD_ND_LSD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My friend used to have this
down4things ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Aren't these outdated now?
wallix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:22:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There is a red one on my coffee table right now from the 90โs - a gift from my bro. My kids are 5 and 7 and the 7 year old loves it and thinks itโs magic.
iNathanLite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:23:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Do you hold it when you use it?
Does it make sound?
sockofpancakes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:22 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Not too long ago my grandma found one of those in her house and I tried playing it again, somehow Iโm still amazed and spend too long trying to outsmart it.
CleanSlateImpulse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:25:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
๐ตI'll ask 21 questions and they all about us Could you love me in a Bentley? Could you love me on a bus? I'll ask 21 questions and they all about us๐ต
Nate Dogg
UnholyDMC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:26:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes.
SlightOwl40 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What is that? A portable ouija ? Xdd
glitchmasterYT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one
MangoJayne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:28:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
MY GRANDMA STILL HAS OURS
cableses ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:29:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I downloaded the app to see what the fuss was about and its broke ass cant even guess airpods
SFlabrat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:32:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I rmb after a while, itโd be fun to be completely honest and let the game guess within 5 questions. There was almost a way to hint to the game what youโre thinking of without explicitly saying so
Duke_of_Calgary ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was trying to find my ps2 memory cards today when I found this instead. Still works too (needed a new battery)
dcaseyjones ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:33:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
To this day I still believe these things operated using actual black magic.
Donksplongler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used to change my answer half way through because I was embarrassed that it figured it out lol
xX_namert_Xx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:37:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
AAAAAA 20 QUESTIONS
cloudyest ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:38:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
So 2001
A_Wilson97 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:41:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Boy, to this day itโll confuse me how that thing could read my mind
lindseylego ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One night my brothers girlfriend said if it could guess tampon she would run across the street wearing only a hat touch the lamppost and come back. Welp it said "sanitary napkin" and anyone awake at 2am that night got to see her lovelies, lol.
bossgeico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:42:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dude these were crazy fr fr
August2_8x2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:44:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have a red one. Play with it once in a while when I find it while Iโm digging thru my dresser
uber1337h4xx0r ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:45:00 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
And now we have something even more OP: the community sourced Akinator
BeefNBeef ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My aunt would send my family a different game every year for Christmas. First time we played we did "shit" and it asked "Is it poop?". Lol. We were hooked after that.
Rossilaz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:53:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I DID! I have no idea how it works, but it just does. thats all i got to say.
TheROUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit is this a 20 questions thing? If so I lost or won every time depending on how you look at it
articunories ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:55:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I would always try to fool this thing by thinking of some ridiculous thing. Without fail it would always get it I was convince it was black magic
mrsrichardson0715 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it smaller than a loaf of bread?..... always thought that question was odd...of all the things to use as a gauge. Lol
CDxNL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes of course
Inspektical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, that's even the exact one I had.
internet_whale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:58:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No, but now I want to, what is it exactly?
JJax10 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:52 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Basically a next level "8 ball" that you shook and asked a question! It basically "tries to figure out what you're thinking" by asking 20 general questions narrowing it down until it 100% guesses whatever you had in your head, shit was creepy when I was 10!!
FEwood ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:59:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I bought two when they came out for my kids.
mastersonc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have one that I mess with from time to time.
PlayerPixelated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:01:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one that works minus 2 pixels
Aqedah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:03:47 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember these... Till The Akinator came along and made them redundant.
Green_Meathead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:04:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me: growing up? I've played that thing as an adult!
Also me: fuck I'm old
yudhamica17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:05:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I asked if I would get a girlfriend in life, it said no, I'm 28 now, accurate so far.
phadeboiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:06:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
the OG akinator
samdawat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:08:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have the red one
i_hate_you_and_you ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:10:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have mine on my shelf right now. Still can't fully understand how it knows so much.
SovietBrotkasten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Dr. Sirvana sure had a blast with these
captaintaco2345 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my sister used to play with it on car trips all the time
KingGooba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:11:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It could never get coat hanger
Supersnazz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:14:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
just4abeard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:15:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Could it fit in a bread box?
Malkallam13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:16:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Telephone pole. Easy win
ELPwork ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:18:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one =)
Mathemologist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:19:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember when it guessed 'LEGO brick' and I lost my shit.
mrtboy1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:20:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, I'm not rich
HelloUPStore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:21:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What a weird dreamcast case. How do you put the disc in?
WaterMaster607 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:22:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
dude i still have one of these in my closet somewhere
Ovcharkaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one wym
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:23:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Had one in 2005ish. Used to play it when I was bored at night back when I was in 8th grade
Larva_Mage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My older sister did me for one game and it literally guessed โyour little brotherโ.
Thing was scary accurate
Eqonesian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:25:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You've unlocked memories that were not meant to resurface
D3fuser_AHK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:27:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine
DarthCowTheSimple ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:30:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The original ankinator
smushedtomato ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:31:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
my cousin recently got one for his birthday and holy frick it works
RDR007 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:32:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Oh fuck, this thing actually existed. I thought it was just a dream that I used to own one of these. I might buy another one on amazon for the lulz.
Jakethered_game ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:35:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
20 questions yes. But we were way too poor to have the little wizard orb so we just played it the old fashioned way.
Mourning_Starr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:38:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
That thing got the exact breed of my dog.
AcidAlchamy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:39:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Me and my daughter have one at home, and keep one in the car. Endless fun.
lemonheadbih ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:40:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It was eerily accurate!
vladaglaregluten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:49:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I do and I'm 12
Luckyversace95 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:51:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
SOMETIMES
col_clipspringer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:52:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Only in Walmart before my parents could tell me they werenโt going to buy some shit piece of plastic.
JorgeyGari ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:54:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Been trying to find a new one but they seem to have stopped producing them.
MillennialMushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:04:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Look at these comments, this toy is still mind fucking us.
Josh_Your_IT_Guy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:05:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have the red one in my basement, still works!
PokeballBro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:11:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
These were legit!! This and akinator, are pure dark magic. Always blows my mind.
Its_MrTiedye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:18:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Growing up? I played this a couple weeks ago. Still fire.
L-ONE-X ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had a red one! Would still use it if it hadn't of been stolen
PKMNTrainerMark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:28:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
One of my sisters had one.
Meanwhile, I still have my Harry Potter one.
thirdXsacharm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We still have one of these and use it regularly lol
Firninz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:37:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is this something like the Akinator?
Agarillobob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:38:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yea I had one worked like 90% of the time then 1 year after were I used more difficult phrases and new technology emerged it went down to 50% and now it usually does not work anymore except I use very simple words
Lord_Terard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:44:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was so sad when I lost mine
SheriffStrucker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:45:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I guess I was born too late for this, idk what this is honestly, not to be mean or anything
pikmin311 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:51:28 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No
IronBriggz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Never knew how to work the doggone thing :P
Thanks for posting! Now I can not forget about about this after 20 years :D
lighly_toasted_bread ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:06 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I actually had this
hawwkfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:00:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My son did. God i'm old.
handicapableofmaths ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:03:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You know when a memory just violently punches you in the face? That's what just happened. I'd completely forgotten these existed.
Mabout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:07:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had one that looked like the footprint of a tolberone bar, and lasted for like 10 years
TomIndev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:08:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! My brother used to have one.. that I always stole.
supertriggerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:10:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I played the shit out of one as a kid I outsmarted it a few times
MEMZdotEXE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:12:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I was too young to understand anything, so I just pressed random buttons until it stopped working
Guypringle84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:34 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I bought a Simpsons one. If you answer all the questions as if the are about you it is the best โWhat Simpsons Character Are Youโ test available.
Usernameuntooken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:25:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I've got one in my bathroom incase people need entertainment
Xl_cookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:26:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I played this last night
TheAutisticFurry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:32:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The closest thing to consumer toy AI
JohnYusaku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
i still have that around my house i havent used it in years.
HistorianCM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:36:57 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You do know that or was a web site first...
www.20q.net
GameSpate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:37:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I have one of those of my coffee table and I have legitimately no idea where it came from
BloodElfMasterRace ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:03 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Every once in a while Iโll find it in a random junk drawer and Iโll get massive whiplash
RaganTargaryen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:41:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It never guessed a platypus
sylverhawke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:43:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine
TheWireLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:44:29 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Childhood road trips would not have been the same without this and my Gameboy.
Solaris_00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:56:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This thing had more intelligence than the iPhone I s2g
damzk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:58:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still play it on Alexa
Boogerweed2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:59:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have 2 of these bad boys.
EvilMono ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:00:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nope no one has ever played it except for you
Kat_ri ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! Beat it with menorah!
wpanik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:16:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This came up at lunch at work the other day. We found out it's an app and downloaded it. Somehow the app doesn't work nearly as well as that old piece of plastic did.
Lukesquires ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Bought one at a Goodwill for $2 last week. The nostalgia was strong
danomano61200 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:22:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to the new meme format
Mortuusi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:23:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Great for parties
MidwestMonster89 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:34:17 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
No. Weโre Catholic and that thing is black magic from Satan himself!
silly_gelfling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:38:08 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
There was a error in at least some versions. We were trying for "hummingbird" and the questions were moving closer and closer to the inevitable correct conclusion...then it came back with "human head." Tried multiple times and kept getting the same result. Guessing an entry was miss-typed or an index was off.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:42:27 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one in the closet
Gyrovague_Greyling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:46:58 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember being 17/18 and thinking it was a dumb toy and I would stomp it easily on my first try by thinking my girlfriend's name and it guessed "Soul mate" and it blew my mind.
Prince_Edward_IV ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:47:16 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE
TRICKY!
Vamosity-Cosmic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:48:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Its Akinator's dad
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:50:23 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
we still play it. So far it's only been wrong twice.
TheCodesterr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:53 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This shit is wild. I want to play it now. Gonna check for an app
UnrstledJimmies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:09:31 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It never guessed platypus.
NyanSquiddo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:11:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
who says i ever stopped
y7uoMike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:15:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah no shit
RSpudieD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:18:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I really enjoyed playing with these things.
Wildfirethetiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This MF correctly guessed โWall-to-Wall Carpetingโ one Christmas when my dad and I were playing. WHO TF PROGRAMMED THESE BASTARDS?
Jakes9070 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:20:18 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine, and the origional batteries still works!
RubaLad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like the Pokรฉmon one for Ds
Hgx-Atlas-Gold ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:25:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Somehow it always guessed "Breast milk"
Spartan21122 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:37:01 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one AND it still works.
36monsters ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:41:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine! It's in my desk at work and I use it to impress interns.
deathBBQ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:47:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one
alwaysbeballin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Growing up? I still have one, played it last year.
DJKaito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Wanted one but didnt got one
insertarnombre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:24 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Omg I just founded it in a pile of old toys in my house!
redhead994 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:17:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still play with mine sometimes. I got 2 on a flea market for less than a dollar.
Lone_Ronin_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:07 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember this thing! I can hear the noises it made too. I think it was only tossed out when it finally quit a few years ago. I think my family had both this regular one and the sports themed one that was supposed to vaguely look like a football.
sitonfence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:41:42 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You just made me realise that mine is missing...
qwertygeee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:54:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
What is this. Iโve had similar looking thing call damagochi but its not that
durimdead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:03:04 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Always played it in the store. Never bought it =)
xkaskade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:09:26 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Still have it, still works.
Burly_Jim ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:49 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Barrel was my go-to.
Quetzal00 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
All the time
RoseTheOdd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:56 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one lmao.
imdownwithdat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I tried my best to beat the shit out of this thing. It was pretty good at what it was supposed to do.
DenormalHuman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:48 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
yup
ifiwereabravo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
loved this. blew my mind
BOGDAN426 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the ancestor of Akinator?
spocxli ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:09 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We still take it on every road trip
Swesor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:25 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I used to be completely silent while playing these because I could've sworn it was listening.
The_Blue_Squid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
I've still got mine! Most of the pixels are dead now, but you can still just make out what it says when the questions are long enough to scroll into the less dead areas. Sometimes I break it out for the dual entertainment of 20Q and deciphering those questions that you can only see bits and pieces of.
Edit: Just realised the image shows a 20Q with an undo button. Thought that seemed odd so I went and checked, and lo and behold mine doesn't have it! Seems identical otherwise, same logo and everything. Maybe mine's especially old, or perhaps a knockoff? Wouldn't surprise me given the way parents are.
allyourbase51 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, the older ones didnโt have an undo button.
Torch_33 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have one!!
JuanElPhotographer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:10 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
This image got me thinking...
bleakneonblack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:59 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have it and it's the shit.
Thebiginfinity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I beat it once with "fat guy carrying a tire"
JaceUpMySleeve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:50 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It actually knew EVERYTHING it even guessed one of the main characters from a JRPG game i played.
neoboo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I legit just threw out my old one when moving a few weeks back. That thing was scary good at predicting your thoughts.
Korvikaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:39 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
We always tried to get it to guess penis
ThePandaHD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
hold on, โIโm thinking....โ
Iโll leave now
kweefer_sutherland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The first time I used it, I was thinking of an โassholeโ to see if it would get the answer. It answered with โsphincterโ within four or five questions as though it had done that a million times by now. I was thoroughly impressed.
Raging_AricShin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol I still have mine to this day. And the battery still works. This thing is literally magic.
albiet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine. I take it to music festivals and it's always a fun camp toy. How the hell the batteries have lasted 22 years is beyond me.
AbraUsedSurf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Witchcraft
BreathingSavesMyLife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Mine is still working. Is it powered by St. Graal??
Matth3ewl0v3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:45 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My memories were 1% "whoa how did it possibly guess i was thinking of a duck?" And 99% "fuck i just bumped it off my bedside table, gotta wait 5 minutes for it to go to sleep"
NICH3664 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:51 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Had one by the toilet for years
Toufles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:11 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine! Still fun to mess around with from time to time. Granted, there probably is an app that works even better...
Caticorn10000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:28:30 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
presses yes button
Thearchetype14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:38:04 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
OH SHIT. I forgot About these things!
BluntMastaKillah ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:53:32 on July 14, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
My sis used to have one back in the day. This thing used to turn on at night sometimes, when laying on itself, and the only way to turn it off was to answer all of the questions...talk about torture ;(.
thinkB4WeSpeak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:45:14 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
They need an adult x rated version
Atz3l ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:55:35 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
As the game says,"undo".
Sharkaac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:13 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fuk I'm getting old...
Booblicle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:36:44 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I found one of those early this year but never bothered to check it out
k_itskelto ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:09:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'VE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THIS THING AND SHOWN MY FRIENDS PICTURES SO MANY TIMES AND NONE OF THEM HAD A CLUE WHAT IT WAS I FEEL SO VALIDATED NOW
c73k ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:03:41 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
You can play the online version whit them
Intuentius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:57:02 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, it was surprisingly good at figuring out what I was thinking of
foxynews ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:08:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*
You can play this online if you are up for some nostalgia http://www.20q.net/
Edit: I won! apparently 20Q thinks a diploma is an animal.
You were thinking of a diploma.
You said it's classified as Unknown, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is Animal.
Is it small? You said No, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is Yes.
Is it colorless? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Does it involve contact with other humans? You said Probably, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Do you use it in public? You said Yes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Is it bright? You said Sometimes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Can it be used to start fires? You said Yes, 20Q was taught by other players that the answer is No.
Hawke666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:09:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
The website was actually the predecessor to the device and was used to develop the database it used.
Airbitrage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:26:54 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I wan that screen for when my HDD is reading.
mxmearcstapa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:49:20 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"Do you hold it when you use it?"
DownVoteGuru ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:30:32 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
"Did anyone else use this object that was hugely popular for my targeted age ranged question?"
blue4029 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:53:36 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I remember playing this in the shower
Serenity-03K64 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:36:37 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I still have mine. Might have two. I loved it that much.
EmperorKingBob ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:15:21 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Never heard of this before, is it like a prehistoric Akinator?
orl93 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 08:50:05 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I would always feed them to death
RCT2man ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 05:38:40 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Decision tree (only the programmers will know what I mean)
itsthemoney27 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:46:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
epic programmer moment ๐
LBTT ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 05:29:19 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Nah. The function they use to arrive at the answer can be ascertained by the fifth question or so. It has a massive internal database and it cutting out huge swaths based on user input.
Itโs the electronic version of Guess Who?.
Anyone who had their mind blown by this was a moron. Itโs just a database searching algorithm. We interact with these things every day.
Squish_the_android ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It's kinda amazing that they fit it in such a small package at the time. Everyone knew how it worked. But it was kinda amazing in the same way those pocket electronic Dictionary was. We didn't have smart phones or tablets.
LBTT ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:35:43 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
It wasnโt amazing to me, just simple. And these came out near the cusp of smartphones. Your last sentence makes it seem like you believe me to be young. No. I was born in a time before cds were a thing and the internet still required to be dialed and even that was brand new. The moment I saw these things, I was completely unimpressed.
peeledmelon ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I had the advanced version
Booblicle ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:37:55 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Fleshlight?
mattcamp5644 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:12 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
If you liked this little hand held check out โAkinatorโ on the App Store. Pretty similar and crazy accurate.
c73k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:04:38 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Also the 20Q its available onlin :)
schwam_91 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 11:20:46 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
no, just you. Not like it was huge not long ago
Proxy_PlayerHD ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:15 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure i'm too young to know this...
what is that?
MummaGoose ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 07:07:30 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
Lol no. But DIGIMON. And I always used o beat my brother in battle. He hated it lol.
QuesoBasically ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 02:48:33 on July 13, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
... Ur gay