20 Deep Blue Questions
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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