Akinator: guesses a character in your head

therokerroar · 16-01-2010 1:22am #1

http://uk.akinator.com/

Think of a real or fictional character and 9/10 this can guess who it is you're thinking of by asking you a series of questions.

Yes, I know it's a database built up over time by people's answers etc, but it's still impressive.

It guessed Steve Bruce (Sunderland Manager), Niall Quinn (Sunderland Chairman) and Darren Bent (Sunderland Footballer) for me.

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 1:26am

It can't get Facekicker.

imeddyhobbs · 16-01-2010 1:42am

Didnt know Tom Petty

Hank_Jones · 16-01-2010 1:44am

I chose the character Jonathan Harker in the Bram Stoker novel Dracula.

Didn't get it.

Bahaha asks me if my character is Irish, which he is (Jim Sheridan) and then comes out with a guess of the German director Paul Verhoeven, not the brightest genie in the world...

Program is a load of crap, didn't get Sheridan either.

Biggins · 16-01-2010 1:45am

MaybeLogic wrote: »

It can't get Facekicker.

Give it time, it will learn the names of the average Irish gurrier sooner or later.

brummytom · 16-01-2010 1:50am

It got Ronnie Drew... Jesus that's weird.

It got to "Is your character Irish" and I thought "He knows!"

:eek:

Creature · 16-01-2010 1:52am

It got Roger Daltrey and RJ MacReady. Good taste for a computer program.

pyure · 16-01-2010 1:54am

got kurt cobain.

although after establishing that its was a male, blonde, guitar player who was dead it asked if he'd appeared in playboy ?!? not the brightest.

brummytom · 16-01-2010 1:55am

Just tried Luke Kelly and Bin Laden, got them both.

Didn't get Liam Clancy though.. damned thing

kincsem · 16-01-2010 1:57am

It got Lester Piggott without any mention of horseracing.

Biggins · 16-01-2010 2:00am

kincsem wrote: »

It got Lester Piggott without any mention of horseracing.

O'' I should try entering "horse racing" "unpaid taxes" "memory loss" and "brown envelopes"
...it will probably give me the name of.....
O' crap, I better not, my uncle might kill me!

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 2:01am

It just got 3 out of 3 for me.
I'm impressed.
(Bogart,Henri Charriere,Krishnamurti)

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 16-01-2010 2:01am

Hmmm...

Instead of Mary Bennett it came up with Elizabeth Bennett (which impressed me!). Then carried on and came up with Lady Godiva...

It's since gotten Captain Jack Harkness, Rincewind and Avatar Aang, and failed to identify Roland Browning (having guessed two characters from Skins, it then went for Will from Inbetweeners, in fairness, wasn't far off)

brummytom · 16-01-2010 2:02am

It got Wilde and Joyce!

This thing's scary good

dylano_k · 16-01-2010 2:04am

That is kick ass, it got Zooey Deschanel

Seloth · 16-01-2010 2:07am

Ok It guessed Bertie Ahern and Taz...whoah!..I wonder if tayto man can be

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 2:08am

Wow.
It just got Jack Shaftoe,King of the Vagabonds, from the Baroque Trilogy.
Not too shabby.
4 out of 4.

Little Acorn · 16-01-2010 2:09am

Ha! I defeated him with Aishwarya Rai.
First he suggested someone called Mairet or something?
Then he suggested Freida Pinto,and then he suggested Shilpa Shetty.
You lose Akinator! :-)

Buceph · 16-01-2010 2:14am

Last night a friend of mine was telling me about playing with this program. His brother is playing rugby for one of the provinces here. He's not a full first team player yet, but he is fully professional and started a few Magner's League games for them. So my friend, the brother of the rugby player, spend ages with the Akinator program making the database think that if an Irish person was looking for a top class rugby player from Ireland associated with a province or even the national team it would put him out first. I think it still gives out Brian O'Driscoll some of the time, but the rest of the time it gives his brother.

Just tried it there, and it works. Bloody genius my friend is.

dylano_k · 16-01-2010 2:16am

Ah it let me down on kate nash, gave me florence (and the machine) but in fairness they're very similar

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 16-01-2010 2:19am

It just got God. Thought I had it, but no. Esepcailly consider its first two questions were "Is your chacter female" and "is your character real"

I'm going to answer as if it was myself and see who comes out. This could be interesting.

Bastard!

Seloth · 16-01-2010 2:19am

Its still getting things right...cept for artmeis fowl..but had it in its list!

brummytom · 16-01-2010 2:25am

I'm addicted. It didn't get Joni Mitchell but it got:

"Mary Harney (Irish Minister of Health)"

Once it asked me "Is your character overweight?" then "Is your character fat?" I knew it was just teasing me

Voodu Child · 16-01-2010 2:33am

it got Ricky from Trailer Park Boys. (watchin g it now

).

I know how it works but its still kinda creepy :pac:

brummytom · 16-01-2010 2:36am

Fcuk this is tooo addictive. It got Goebbels

Sofaspud · 16-01-2010 3:06am

I spent a few hours on this the other day, the only person it didn't get was Kit Ramsay, Eddie Murphy's character from Bowfinger.

And I was trying to think of strange people to make it difficult, it even got Tom Hank's character from "Big", after I answered that he was under 15!

Some of them are hilarious, I was thinking of god, and the first question was "is your character real", I answered "I don't know", so the second question was "Is your character famous for having created the world?"

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 10:37am

I though I had it bet with Buckminster Fuller,but he came back at me.
9 out of 9 now ,the smart fecker.

Somnus · 16-01-2010 3:12pm

I've seen this ages ago and it's fantastic. It got a character from a fantasy novel that I wouldn't have imagined it would be able to. That was enough to impress me, but now I'm gonna be on it for ages again trying different people :P

steppen · 16-01-2010 3:36pm

It got curtis lemansky from the shield

Pretty good time waster

Creed Bratton · 16-01-2010 5:04pm

It got Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang theory!
Dam thats good

_SONIC_ · 16-01-2010 5:30pm

hahaha it got the tayto man and bod!!!!

Busi_Girl08 · 16-01-2010 5:44pm

It got Derren Brown, Mr. Tayto, Renee Zellweger, Mr Akinator, Top Gear Dog, and William Shakespeare.

I caught it out on Keith Barry and Pob.

:| · 16-01-2010 11:38pm

It didn't get Drell from Sabrina the teenage witch. Crap!

BluesBerry · 17-01-2010 12:51am

SRFC90 · 17-01-2010 5:25am

It just guessed deadmau5, a little DJ from Canada!!

Aldebaran · 17-01-2010 11:50pm

It got Leopold Bloom, it was asking ridiculously unrelated questions though and only asked if it was a character from a novel in the second last question, don't know how it guessed right!

bluto63 · 17-01-2010 11:50pm

It managed to get Joel Barish from Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Mr Tayto, but it didn't manage to get Le Corbusier

Michellenman · 18-01-2010 12:52am

I was thinking of 'your ma'

Result: You are thinking of Akinators mother. This thing is GOOD!

dylano_k · 18-01-2010 5:20am

It got lee trundle in 10 questions, he's only ever really been good in league1:eek:

Dancor · 18-01-2010 1:47pm

It didnt get Mike Strutter.

The guy · 18-01-2010 8:05pm

It got Rosalind Franklin.

Agonist · 18-01-2010 11:37pm

It got Iris Robinson and Sergei Brin. Didn't get my grand aunt or Dana.
It got Lassie too, "Is your character yellow?"

I'm impressed.

jd007 · 19-01-2010 10:22pm

"I love playing with you"

*snigger*

cherryghost · 19-01-2010 11:11pm

he got God mistaken for someone called Israel Bar-On

Atavan-Halen · 19-01-2010 11:18pm

I guessed Pikachu - It got it
I guessed Sonic - It got it
I guessed L from DeathNote - It got it

Scary....

TheIrishGrover · 20-01-2010 12:54am

bloody hell.

got cillian Murphy, Hayao Miyazaki, Hannible Smith, Edward James almos, Barney Stilson. fred Astair......damnit. I'm gonna catch it......

SV · 20-01-2010 1:19am

didn't get Bryan Ferry, it was in the options at the end though..
took it a few gueses before it got iggy pop too

otherwise bloody amazing, it guessed Chantelle(from the Celebrity BB) I mean..ffs!

phasers · 20-01-2010 1:27am

It got Dean Learner, I'm vaguely impressed.

ClutchIt · 20-01-2010 10:04am

Class. It got General Friedrich Von Paulus

The.Q · 20-01-2010 6:08pm

Akinator got Louis Armstrong, Simon Cowell, Harry Potter even got Ray Foley (!), but didn't get Mary Hanafin, although she was listed after he admitted defeat! While trying to guess her, though, it guessed Geert Wilder, Renata Beger and Pia Kjaersgard (right-wing politicians, so e was close.:p)

rizzee · 21-01-2010 3:40am

Didn't get Helen Keller... yet!

Akinator: guesses a character in your head

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