The Lighter Side of Artificial Intelligence
The scary-smart 20Q AI project asks: Animal, vegetable, mineral or legendary ’70s rock star?
The 20Q initiative is an ongoing project in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that uses an insanely complex Web-based neural network to simulate a game of 20 Questions. You think of something — person, place, thing, abstract idea; doesn’t matter — and start answering questions posed by the 20Q AI. The questions posed can seem impossibly random, some examples might be: “Can you buy it?” “Does it have four corners?” “Does it like to be petted?” (www.20q.net)
Source: PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/columns/mcdonald/060810.shtml
