Show HN: Props to the Akinator App for creative crowdsourcing - I taught it pg

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The Akinator app, free on the Amazon App Store today, guesses a person you choose based on a series of questions. It knows a ridiculous number of people, seems pretty amazing - when I tried pg, I figured out how it worked. It asks you at the end to name your unknown figure, with a title - we're training it as we use it. Major props.

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The computer game 'Animal', dating back to the 1970s, used a similar mechanism to guess what animal you were thinking of – or learn from its mistakes with a new user-suggested question. (Seeing that game in elementary school was one of the first things making me interested in programming.)

There's a web version at http://www.animalgame.com/, and it's mentioned as one of the precursors to the similar '20Q' AI project/handheld-game at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20Q

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