Fun for all the family

cat · Sat 15 Apr, 2006 23.35

This surely must have been mentioned on here before, but just in case it hasn't...

http://www.20q.net/

Brad · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 02.45

I thought of a video tape and it predicted it correctly!

cat · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 10.55

It's really good, isn't it.

It's not surprising that it gets things, given the number of questions it asks you, but it's rather fun!

It had some trouble with cat's whisker, but got there after about 35 questions.

Thing is, it is 'learning' all the time, so it will be better now than it was ten minutes ago, etc.

Bail · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 11.05

It didn't get duct tape... got close though but then said I won.

ashley b · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 11.06

Bail wrote:It didn't get duct tape... got close though but then said I won.

Yeah, did gthe same for me and "Ashtray".

Bail · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 11.08

ashley b wrote:
Bail wrote:It didn't get duct tape... got close though but then said I won.
Yeah, did gthe same for me and "Ashtray".

Also didn't get "an atom" but did come up with anti-matter half way through.

Pete · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 11.40

Well for "Aston" iit eventually gave up

cat · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 12.29

It got ashtray for me no problem...

... as for atom and aston, I think you guys might want to, as they say, 'cut it some slack'.

It's much more fun trying to let it guess common objects that are lying around the house* than trying to pit obscure items against it and thinking it's crap when it doesn't find them.

*No tedious jokes about atoms being everywhere, please.

Gavin Scott · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 12.37

cat wrote:It got ashtray for me no problem...

... as for atom and aston, I think you guys might want to, as they say, 'cut it some slack'.

It's much more fun trying to let it guess common objects that are lying around the house* than trying to pit obscure items against it and thinking it's crap when it doesn't find them.

*No tedious jokes about atoms being everywhere, please.

It didn't get a funnel for me, and I thought that was pretty "everyday".

Nonetheless I think its a fun bit of software, and probably takes us one step closer to eventually having full coversations with machines.

There are voice-activated home systems around just now which I quite fancy. As well as adjusting lights and locking doors, I'd like to be able to ask my computer more far reaching questions.

Think about the computer on Star Trek TNG. I want one of those.

Bail · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 12.51

Gavin Scott wrote:
cat wrote:It got ashtray for me no problem...

... as for atom and aston, I think you guys might want to, as they say, 'cut it some slack'.

It's much more fun trying to let it guess common objects that are lying around the house* than trying to pit obscure items against it and thinking it's crap when it doesn't find them.

*No tedious jokes about atoms being everywhere, please.
It didn't get a funnel for me, and I thought that was pretty "everyday".

Nonetheless I think its a fun bit of software, and probably takes us one step closer to eventually having full coversations with machines.

There are voice-activated home systems around just now which I quite fancy. As well as adjusting lights and locking doors, I'd like to be able to ask my computer more far reaching questions.

Think about the computer on Star Trek TNG. I want one of those.

But would you really want you house beeping at you constantly? And I think atoms are fairly important, they should be classed as common and as you said, everywhere...

Pete · Mon 17 Apr, 2006 13.04

Gavin Scott wrote:Think about the computer on Star Trek TNG. I want one of those.

I never understood their computers, the buttons didn't seem to change when they pressed things often and just had odd lables.

The one that stands out was an episode of Voyager when Torres and Paris were stuck in space in spacesuit things and she managed to find out what the pressure in the suit was simply by randomly pressing the buttons (one yellow, one pink) and listening to the random bleepy noises it made.