Topic: Akinator The Web Genius Will Mess With Yr Head (Read 11991 times)

David_Dovey · « **on:** 02 Jan 2011, 11:54 »

http://us.akinator.com/#

Click the above link and then click play, and then think of a public figure, either fictional or non-fictional, super-famous or obscure (obscure is better), from any field.

It's like 20 questions, but it is super super super good at it.

For instance: Guessed correctly Lemmy, Trajan (Roman emperor), David Foster Wallace, Henrik Lundqvist, Eddie (Iron Maiden mascot), Genesis P-Orridge and T. Rex from Dinosaur Comics. Stumped him with Marcus Furius Camillus. All of the correct guesses took about the standard 20 questions.

Try to stump it!

allison · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 11:57 »

Stumped it immediately with Stan Rogers.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #2 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 11:59 »

I beat it once, don't remember with what though

It got me on GLaDOS, I was a little freaked out when it asked if the person was in a Valve game.

OH GOD THIS THING IS FREAKING ME OUT
It got David Grohl and I'm pretty sure it's gonna guess Ezio

Beat him with Ron Perlman

sean · « **Reply #3 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:05 »

i was thinking of ian mackaye and i got tim mcilrath

sean · « **Reply #4 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:06 »

i guess that means i win though dovey do you give me a prize now or something?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #5 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:07 »

Yeah, it's kinda interesting when you can actually see it close down on the correct answer. Like I thought it was gonna either take forever to get Trajan or just miss completely but then it sprung "Is he Spanish" (yes) and "Is he known for having a beard" (no, but the other prominent Spanish emperor of the period was) in a row and I knew I was done.

Of course and then sometimes it just manages to guess correctly from seemingly nowhere with no specific signifying questions asked at all.

EDIT: Sean that's weird because a couple of people on the forum I got this from said it got Ian Mackaye really easily. Maybe you're just not good enough at knowing things about Ian Mackaye? You win the prize of my eternal derision.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #6 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:08 »

And being fired from punx

~~tommydski~~ · « **Reply #7 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:12 »

Yesterday when we did this in Meebo it got Roast Beef (Achewood), Steve Albini (Shellac), Tim Midgett (Silkworm), Johnny Howson (Leeds United), Psylocke (X-Men) before I finally stumped it with Andrew Mason (CEO of Groupon).

David_Dovey · « **Reply #8 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:12 »

Yeah I managed to get it to Ian Mackaye even quicker than most of the time. I think you just suck dogg.

sean · « **Reply #9 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:14 »

man dovey hush i know lots of things about ian mackaye maybe i just know too much.

okay that is probably not true man if im getting fired from punx this means i have to become a super hipser now oh god

Dazed · « **Reply #10 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:21 »

It got Jimmy Page pretty easily, stumped it at first with Neil Gaiman's Dream, but then played on and it got it after like 7 more questions.

sean · « **Reply #11 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:22 »

fuck me it got Eduard Khil in like 15 questions goddamn this thing

Tom · « **Reply #12 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:25 »

Pff. Psylocke is easy, what's weird is that it took longer to figure out Norah Winters (2nd guess) from ASM (newish + obscure supporting character) than it did Pixie (New Mutants/New X-Men/now regular Uncanny X-person).

Stumping it on Morrison era Batman; failed to get Jezebel Jet etc.

Tom · « **Reply #13 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:27 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 02 Jan 2011, 12:12

Yeah I managed to get it to Ian Mackaye even quicker than most of the time. I think you just suck dogg.

It's more than probable that more people had just stumped it/done it on Ian MacKaye. Witness the birth of SkyNet!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #14 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:30 »

Man I think "Morrison era Batman" is a bit too specific.

Stumped it on Jon Wurster.

Managed to get Bob Loblaw (Lobs Law Bomb) after one wrong guess.

OK that is ridiculous he managed to get Jek Porkins (extremely minor Star Wars character) in like just over ten guesses, first try.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #15 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:44 »

It took almost 30 questions to get Alan Watts, its first guess after 20 was Thomas Hardy.

It took a few less to guess Hari Seldon, its first guess was Valentine Michael Smith.

It guessed Bassnectar only after guessing Steve Aoki.

Then it figured out Hiro Protagonist, Urza, Herr Starr from Preacher pretty quickly.

I finally stumped it with John Perkins (author of "Confessions of an Economic Hitman").

Dazed · « **Reply #16 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:47 »

I've stumped this thing once in like 15 tries, with Lord Commander Jeor Mormont. This thing is insaaaane and kind of addictive.

Drill King · « **Reply #17 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:57 »

I stumped it on Ganondorf but to be fair it's first guess was Link.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #18 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:59 »

I stumped it repeatedly with Tim Roth but, in hindsight, I don't know shit about Tim Roth so I probably shouldn't be too proud of myself.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #19 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 12:59 »

After 2 tries, with Ickis from Real Monsters and Alpha from Power Rangers, he finally got Benson from Regular Show

I was getting a little scared at the end when he was talking about having red hair and being part of a team, but then he guessed Guy Gardner instead of Niles Caulder.

JimmyJazz · « **Reply #20 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:01 »

Wow is this thing freaky. It got Anton Newcombe in 20 questions but it took 43 to come up with Mark E. Smith.

Drill King · « **Reply #21 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:09 »

I stumped it with Frida Hyvönen.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #22 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:15 »

Guessed Mr. Plinkett (he of the hour-long Star Wars prequel movie reviews) correct in less than 10

Coward · « **Reply #23 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:25 »

He got Judge Dredd, Marcus Cole of B5, but not Lt. Castillo of Miami Vice

David_Dovey · « **Reply #24 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:33 »

Holy shit, got Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film on the first try.

JD · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:37 »

Got him with Moondog

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #26 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:39 »

It got Dead, Euronymous, Michael Gira, and Richard D. James. Stumped it with John Balance, though to be fair I probably answered some of the questions wrong

IronOxide · « **Reply #27 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:40 »

It got Spider Jerusalem, Roy from The IT crowd, Ichii from Ichii the Killer, Baba Yaga, and countless others, but failed on Greg Ginn (Black Flag).

I'm pretty impressed.

sean · « **Reply #28 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:41 »

dude got jeph on the first try.

this thing is insane.

sean · « **Reply #29 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:46 »

for whatever reason though it has no idea who tommy is

David_Dovey · « **Reply #30 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 13:52 »

It even guessed my penis correctly

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #31 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 14:12 »

Well shit it got Arthur Von Nagel

Slick · « **Reply #32 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 14:15 »

It finally got Stan Rogers after 40 goes, but after 30 he went for Gordon Lightfoot.

Also, totally stoked that it got

David_Dovey · « **Reply #33 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 14:38 »

Quote from: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 02 Jan 2011, 14:12

Well shit it got Arthur Von Nagel

dang

pwhodges · « **Reply #34 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 14:54 »

Got Bela Bartok in 30; didn't get Michael Finnissy (living composer).

Nodaisho · « **Reply #35 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 15:19 »

Couldn't get Anton Webern even after 40 questions.

jodizzle · « **Reply #36 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 15:41 »

hahah I had SIouxsie Sioux and he guessed Cheryl Cole after 20 questions :/
I kept playing though and he got her in the next 10!

pwhodges · « **Reply #37 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 15:43 »

It didn't get Marianne Faithfull, even though she was already in their list. I think it goes off on the wrong track if you tell it that you know or are related to someone; it also often wastes time by asking the same question several times.

negative creep · « **Reply #38 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 16:15 »

I tried a few Scary go Round characters, but it didn't get any.

Joseph · « **Reply #39 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 16:41 »

I played with this a couple months ago I think? The only figures I really was caring about were literary ones, and I think the only one it managed to get was Nabokov. Admittedly, many of them were fairly obscure poets.

EDIT: I mean, not even really obscure poets though. Charles Olson, Guy Davenport, Denis Levertov, etc.

scarred · « **Reply #40 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 16:43 »

stumped on Mr. Rogers.

Inlander · « **Reply #41 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 16:47 »

This thing gets a bit screwy when it's stumped. It homed in really quickly on the fact that my person was a musician, but after a few "No" answers suddenly it started asking questions like "Is your character a running back?" and "Does your character deal with chemistry?" Then after asking if my character was old (he's dead, so I answered "Probably/partially") it guessed Miles Davis (having established early on that we were talking about a jazz musician, surprise suprise), which was incorrect. After a few more questions it guessed John Coltrane, also incorrect. It also asked, as question 34, "Does your character have white skin?", having established very early on that ther person was black. Finally, after guessing Dizzy Gillespie (again incorrect) and asking about 40 questions it conceded defeat. I happily introduced my new "character" to it.

The person I was thinking of was Herschel Evans, who to be fair is pretty obscure, though anyone keen on 30s big-band swing will probably have heard of him.

squawk · « **Reply #42 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 17:42 »

It guessed Ginobili which made me happy because he was just so smiley

but I tried to get it to guess Charlie from Sunny and it came up with Mac.

It's fun to see it figuring out who you're thinking of as the questions get progressively more specific though, like, "does your character drink a lot"

squawk · « **Reply #43 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 17:48 »

Okay now I stumped it with "the janitor from Austin Powers who laughs at Austin"

est · « **Reply #44 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 18:44 »

I am laughing so hard right now because it's taken only 7 questions for him to ask "is your character from the Fallout series" when I was thinking of the protagonist from Fallout 3.

est · « **Reply #45 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 18:46 »

He guesses: "The Vault Dweller (Fallout)"

est · « **Reply #46 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 18:47 »

Haha Q 13: "does your character smoke?" (I am thinking of Don Draper)

He got it

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #47 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 20:49 »

Gave up trying to get Jeff Tweedy, took like 40+ questions to get Marrow from the X-men, couldn't get Nick Cannon's character from the film Drumline.

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #48 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 20:58 »

Couldn't get Ultimate Nick Fury, but got the regular Nick Fury exactly before giving up.

jwhouk · « **Reply #49 on:** 02 Jan 2011, 21:38 »

It got Hannelore in 18 questions.

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