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0 pointsdoubleunplussed3y ago0 comments

It's been a longstanding question of mine how these things were programmed. How did they construct the database of answers and questions, and what the answer to each question would be for each possible answer?

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Luc3y ago· 3 in thread

People could play the game at http://20q.net/ , and if it didn't guess your word it asked you to enter it. So it was trained by the players.

It's a neural net, so very efficient on small devices.

c223y ago

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060230008?oq=Artificia...

aabbcc12413y ago

Looks similar to the https://akinator.com

ableal3y ago

b4je7d7wb3y ago

Maybe it's some reinforcement learning.

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