What makes Akinator truly powerful is massive amounts of reinforcement learning, as well as the mechanism for user addition of questions and answers.
Akinator also breaks down pretty sadly on certain classes of answers that are very popular but difficult to differentiate. Male main characters from shonen fighting shows tend to confuse it.
Akinator also breaks down pretty sadly on certain classes of answers that are very popular but difficult to differentiate. Male main characters from shonen fighting shows tend to confuse it.
I think when there are multiple extremely similar characters Akinator bails and picks the one that has been most frequently played on Akinator.
Akinator also breaks down pretty sadly on certain classes of answers that are very popular but difficult to differentiate. Male main characters from shonen fighting shows tend to confuse it.
I think when there are multiple extremely similar characters Akinator bails and picks the one that has been most frequently played on Akinator.
Yes, but I doubt it was explicitly programmed to do so. Rather, it is simply the case that the reinforcement learning means that a character that has been played more will be more heavily weighted.
The issue Rym mentioned with shonen fighting shows is simply a matter of Akinator lacking the right questions, or not yet having trained those questions for those characters. Unless someone adds better questions in, there's only so much Akinator can do. Rym, can you give an example of this confusion? I'm interested in improving things.
One thing I noticed only recently that really helps Akinator out is that when it makes a guess at the character, it doesn't actually count as a question. This is pretty crucial, since if this was not the case it would be rather inefficient for Akinator to attempt to guess the character early, as an attempted guess at the character gives Akinator much less information than pretty much any question it could ask. Without things being this way, Akinator would be better off only ever guessing after it had used up all its 40 questions.
For those of you not in the know, the Akinator resurgence here is most likely due to the recent Fast Karate episode in which Dave tests whether it can guess Treebeard.
I did listen to the FK episode, and I am the one who revived this thread, but I will admit that Rym and Scott pre-empted me with their mention of Akinator in the MLP thread. However, it could well be that Dave is the one who truly came before us all.
For those of you not in the know, the Akinator resurgence here is most likely due to the recent Fast Karate episode in which Dave tests whether it can guess Treebeard.
I honestly haven't listened to D&J; in a long time. I saw the Akinator app on my phone, and then went to see if it had ponies.
"Is your character a rap singer? Does your character practice skateboarding? Was your character discovered recently? Is your character a teenager?" Hahahahaha
I don't get why sometimes it asks questions I've already answered in another way. "Is your character still alive"? - Yes "Has your character been dead for over 100 years?" .... O_o
I don't get why sometimes it asks questions I've already answered in another way. "Is your character still alive"? - Yes "Has your character been dead for over 100 years?" .... O_o
It's likely to be a matter of insufficient training. Akinator does not actually understand what those questions mean. However, once it is established that "yes" to still alive correlates with a very high level of certainty to "no" for dead for over 100 years, Akinator should stop doing this.
On second thought, though, what if the character was resurrected after being dead for 1000 years?
Well, I was able to stump it twice so far. The first time was Mark from the first season of the old PBS kid's science show 3-2-1 Contact. The second time was with Darien Lambert from the old sci-fi show Time Trax. I was surprised with how easily it was able to guess some of the other obscure characters I could think of, such as Roger Ramjet and Dr. Snuggles, though.
I was surprised to find that Hana from Tokyo Godfathers has only been guessed 20 times. That's less than Rym. Edit: Wow, Satoshi Kon has only been played 68 times.
I honestly don't find it all that hard to beat personally. I just find the most obscure characters and people that I can find and usually I can fool it. For example, when I tried to get Warren Spector, it gave me Cliffy B. somehow. Looking at the results afterwards it also said I answered all the questions correctly for Warren Spector anyways so yay.
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The issue Rym mentioned with shonen fighting shows is simply a matter of Akinator lacking the right questions, or not yet having trained those questions for those characters. Unless someone adds better questions in, there's only so much Akinator can do. Rym, can you give an example of this confusion? I'm interested in improving things.
However, it could well be that Dave is the one who truly came before us all.
"Is your character still alive"? - Yes
"Has your character been dead for over 100 years?" .... O_o
Akinator does not actually understand what those questions mean. However, once it is established that "yes" to still alive correlates with a very high level of certainty to "no" for dead for over 100 years, Akinator should stop doing this.
On second thought, though, what if the character was resurrected after being dead for 1000 years?
Edit: Wow, Satoshi Kon has only been played 68 times.
Edit- it also got something I can't talk about right.
Edit 2- lookie here