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January 08, 2008
Not impressed at all
I have been playing with this stupid online version of the 20Q for a while now. So far, out of about half a dozen things I've come up with it has managed to guess only one. I've played with one of the actual toys once, and I stumped it too. Now I know, some of my choices are pretty unlikely. I know it isn't going to pick something like cock ring or penile implant or anus. Hell, it almost got anus. But I also picked puzzle ring, which it quasi guessed as an engagement/wedding ring or just a ring. But no, that doesn't count on Jeopardy. It couldn't get Astroturf either, or cow poop (I would have accepted 'manure' but it didn't manage that either).
It got pi though. And really, that doesn't surprise me. I'm not going to give it a break and come up with easy things - that would be entirely pointless. But it's still sad that I can regularly come up with semi obscure things that it is incapable of guessing in twenty-nine tries. So, let's try a few more before I get bored with it:
Fascism - no, but it did get close asking if it was a political party
Vampire - feh, not even close
Pac-Man - nope, and it even asked twice if it was a pinball machine
Pirate - well sonofabitch it actually got one
Okay, let's try self-referential: the 20Q - color me amazed, it got this one too.
Okay, my opinion of the thing is raised slightly. Just slightly. I'm still annoyed that I stumped it with fucking Astroturf though.
Posted by damyano at January 8, 2008 10:26 AM