Can you beat Akinator?

http://uk.akinator.com/#

o_O

holy fuck. i did beowulf, augustus caesar and gizmo and it got them all, and way too quickly.

it got tim smith of cardiacs after a load of REALLY vague questions and one incorrect guess (elvis costello)#

o_OOOO

i think the beauty of this thing is that every time someone plays it, it gets better and obtains a wider database

struck out on joel cairo. thank the lord tbh, was creeping me out.

didn't have one-time Charlton hero Chris Powell! :D

This thing took wayyyy too long to figure out Paddington.

wtf! it was nowhere near augustine of hippo and then it pulled him out of the bag. it was like 'is he indian?' no 'is he jewish?' no 'Augustine of Hippo'. wtf?!

It got Mr. Hat pretty quick but it asked in two different ways if he wore a hat, which made me laugh.

This is like the 20 questions thing my kids own and I guess how the algorithms kinda work but it's pretty mind-blowing when it guesses Leopold Bloom from some quite vague questions.

I beat him with Stephen Pastel.

it didn't have Xenophon. feel like i can relax now.

Ha NV the first time I picked up that 20 questions game my friend thought of 'pussy' and it asked for its final question, 'Is it pussy willow?' ("Does it bring great joy to many people?" "Yes.")

lol

I just beat this guy with Félix Guattari so I can sleep soundly now.

this is fucking amazing

asking him about obscure characters it wouldn't have in a million years isn't "beating" anything, guys

a) "obscure"
b) it adds to the database so it can improve in future
c) he told me I beat him

....aaaaand after a slip-up involving neal morse, it gets an ilxor

took him 40 q's and three guesses to get werner herzog!

like it was all vague for 12 questions and then it asked if he had a mustache, and then it knew it was john holmes!

^^^yeah this shit is like whoa

Noodle you are either an annoying college freshman or an legitamately sick adult agoraphobe if you don't think Félix Guattari is obscure

it got king buzzo in 20 questions!

o lollllll after it beat me for Ishmael I was going for Moondog, and it guessed Scatman John. Although I suppose a beard doesn't count as a moustache. I'll try again...

Charles Manson - decidedly not Moondog.

didn't even get Danny Dyer

got tarzan, dubya and crumb
stumped it on andy capp

got gen patton, margaret thatcher, kylie minogue, j0hn darn1elle, whiffed on christoph waltz

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Rong again, Akinator. Not every indie songwriter I think of who does not wear a beard, is not black, and plays folk songs is J0hn D, sheesh

....aaaaand after a slip-up involving neal morse, it gets an ilxor

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this was obviously j0hn d btw

htf did it get mullah omar?

got Dean Moriarty from on the road. started asking shit like does he drive a car? and i knew he'd get it.

he didn't get erlend loe tho'

asked if he was of scandinavian origin and i thought he may have known it. bud sadly not.

did not get Abdul Dostum though

lol ok who put Lou1s Jagger (Dyson Musician) on this thang

this thing is sick. played it a year ago or so and can only imagine it's gotten harder to beat since

stumped him with Charles Bovary

Just stumped it with Kathleen Hanna.

Wait shit - it got her on the second round. Damn.

Beat him on:
Asmus Tietchens
Joe Meek

Got Hieronymus Bosch but beat him with Enrico Palazzo.

this is shit. it asked if player is of british origin and then suggested ole gunnar solskjaer.

he doesn't know teddy sheringham very well

also thought craig charles was julian barratt (this was after the question: is your character black - partially)

beat him w/ Phil Drummond

what about Bill Drummond

he got stuart murdoch of belle and sebastian very quickly but guessing that's because all internet nerds did it

r kelly, on the other hand took 3 goes.

and needed the question "has your character ever been accused of being a paedophile"

This is all fun and all until it has a big enough base to find Sarah Connor- if you catch my drift.

Got : Gulliver Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Didn't get : Mary Henry from Carnival Of Souls

Beat it with Philip Jose Farmer, D. Boon and R. Crumb. (It picked Philip Roth for the last.)

I'm probably picking characters that are way too obvious (Seinfeld, Jason Bourne, Alvy Singer, Robin the Boy Wonder), but it's batting 1000 so far. Time to dig deep.

It got Stuntman Mike super quick. Damn, this thing is good.

got: Dolly the cloned sheep (though it guessed Mother Teresa in the first round, and I'ma not even gonna try to make sense of that)
didn't get: Mary Hopkin

It got Pat from SNL, but I finally stumped it with Strong Guy from X-Factor. Boo ya.

It got Todd Rundgren with a frighteningly low number of really vague questions. Weird.

got: Dolly the cloned sheep (though it guessed Mother Teresa in the first round, and I'ma not even gonna try to make sense of that)

hahaha

Is he European? Yes.
English? Yes.
On TV? Yes.
something to do with cooking? No.
cars? No.
animals? Yes.
Is he older than 50? Yes.
Is he sarcastic? No.

David Attenborough!

Is he European? Yes.
English? Yes.
On TV? Yes.
something to do with cooking? No.
cars? No.
animals? Yes.
Is he older than 50? Yes.
Is he sarcastic? Yes.
Is he a comical actor? No.

David Attenborough!

Just beat it with Scott McDonald, but it got Artur Boruc on the 20th question (one of which was, after establishing he was a European goalkeeper who had played at the 200 World Cup, "does your character appear in a manga?")

Didn't notice someone had already done Jeff Stelling on here. It took about 25 questions to get him, after first guessing Terry Wogan.

Couldn't get Dean Gaffney, it guessed Declan Donnolly and Jeremy Kyle

Got SuperHans off a pile of really vague stuff, but didn't get Becky Granger from Coronation Street.

It got Jack Duckworth

Awesome game!

lol at "has your character killed humans" when they worked out I was talking about an ex-footballer working for a TV channel. So, obviously, it guessed Frankie Boyle. (was Charli

e Nicholas. I win. Again)

I have no idea what happened there.

didn't get: Anastasia Krupnik, Drew Daniel, St. Anselm of Canterbury, Jean Genet (!), Felix Gonzalez Torres, Agnes Martin. But it did get yer wan from lost in translation after the vaguest questions

Didn't get Alex Katz

Hang on, I just had "is your character gay" "no" "is your character homosexual" as two consecutive questions. It also keeps asking things like "is your character from a Balkan country" after I've already said they are from Australia.

It got Anton Du Beke after 30 questions, but the first guess was Barry Scott from the Cillit Bang adverts.

It also keeps asking things like "is your character from a Balkan country" after I've already said they are from Australia.

To get people for whom users answer incorrectly, it can't trust the answers its given absolutely (for instance, it got Nadine Coyle even though I unthinkingly said 'yes' to "is this person English". So if the only thing separating your Harry Kewell from its Hristo Stoichkov is that you said 'yes' to 'are they australian', it needs to check, and it knows that "are they from a Balkan country" is a good way of doing that?

It got Iolo (from Ultima) after 15 tries, but it missed Phil Judd, Robert Silverberg, Nikki Sudden, Andrew Plotkin, Graham Nelson, Ally (from Photopia) and Black (from Jigsaw). I think I made the thing dump core after the last few tries, so I had to stop.

Haha CGLD - I tried Primo Varicella!

beat it with peggy olsen, it guessed ally mcbeal

34 to get Werner Herzog now, and it seemed like it was so close... "Is your character a film director" "Is your character German" - then goes off into "Is you character linked with videogames" and wastes nine more questions.

beat it with oscar robertson

beat it first time out with W. Edwards Deming

I beat him with Curtis Mayfield(!) and Orpheus(!!).

beat it with chris ware

And yet it totally guessed Jimmy Corrigan the other day...

"Is your character a film director" "Is your character German" - then goes off into "Is you character linked with videogames" and wastes nine more questions.

Right? This thing wastes questions like Americans waste food. And it seems to ask the same questions or contradictory questions ("Is your character green?" "Yes." "Is your character orange?") all the time. Still, it's beat me on a number of seemingly obscure attempts (I toughened it up after my first few attempts, which it guessed all too quickly).

It may have guessed Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, but it didn't guess the original Jimmy Corrigan, aka The Spectre.

I beat it with Brian Krakow.

Right? This thing wastes questions like Americans waste food.

Check 'details' after its guessed - if the "expected answer" was blue, it was trying to learn the answer to a question even though it already basically knew who yr dude was.

Beat it with Patterson Hood

Beat it with Carver from the Wire

haha i beat it with matthew yglesias, its final guess was ned raggett

OMG this thing

First tried Lady MacBeth (trivial), then Marty McFly (once it asked "does your character play the guitar" only 14 questions in, I knew I was beat), was floored when it correctly picked The Undertaker after 30 questions and one wrong guess.

It got Misawa and Liger in one guess, dude

I bought the app from iTunes and suddenly today it started asking the questions in French; there is no language selection option so I'm not sure what to do...

yeah, it was saying rejouir for a long time

i think the key is thinking of people like Jean Baudrillard.

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i was thinking of david tibet last night. at first it got osama bin laden, but then it got dt on the second try.
about a minute ago

I thought it would be fun to play this game in 2016, but

http://i.imgur.com/TXdUj5m.png

every goddamn time

http://i.imgur.com/VQaWd51.png

tbf I'm impressed that it only took him 25 questions to come up with Shkreli. "Is your character bad" was the clincher.

Just schooled him. He doesn't know many speedrunners apparently.

Stumped him with David Axelrod the musician.

He doesn't know Stanislaw Lem stuff very well either.

Took 46 questions to get Shostakovich, although tbf there were a few answers I didn't know and didn't feel like looking up.

Beat it with Amiri Baraka

something seems broken though, it asked questions that were effectively the same multiple times.