20 Deep Blue Questions

March 25, 2005

Fun Internet Toy! I found a website that is an artificial-intelligence version of 20-questions; ie, you think of an object, and the computer program tries to guess it. The point is that as more people play, the computer will “learn” how to play better, by learning how people categorize things.

Below is how it fared with me (I decided to choose something that was more difficult than an ordinary object, but not as snarky as going for something completely abstract like “hope” or “an idea”)…
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Arthur Dent and Alternative Energy

So yesterday I read Paul.za`s excellent post on the approximately-imminent oil situation. Just now it occurred to me to idly muse: hmmm, I wonder how IP might come into play in this picture?
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