The Akinator Is a Form of Artificial Intelligence That Can Read Your Mind
by Allen Love
Who are you thinking about right now: possibly a friend, crush, celebrity, game character, singer, important political person, athlete, animated characters, or even Siri. The Akinator, a form of artificial intelligence, is probably going to guess what you are thinking of if you answer the questions correctly.
Now you may think that this is not possible, I mean how can a simple game from 2007 be able to guess who you are thinking about, just by a couple of questions? It might be that it gathers data off of what people wanted it to guess with the descriptions that the people provide it. However, is that all that The Akinator is made up of. According to http://www.ibtimes.com/ “Akinator uses the program Limule published by Elokence.com. The algorithm we use is an original creation. How we created it is our little secret.” So it has a program that helps eliminate the options that you may possibly be thinking of. For instance let us say I am thinking of Ariana Grande, and The Akinator asks is your character is real, well you would respond yes, and that cuts off a large portion of what he needs to guess. In other words, it is a humongous set of information that is narrowed down by your answers.
Junior Chase Bosley said, “I think it is a bewildering game that can almost guess anything that you are thinking about.”
Freshman Johnny Berkey said, “What a sick game. I wonder how it works though.”
Freshman Alex Knott states, “It is a decent time waster I guess. I usually waste a couple of minutes a week on this website trying my best to defeat the Akinator.”
Although the secrets my not exactly be clear to our young developing minds that we are growing every day, its database will always be increasing to the bewilderment of so many more generations that will also bedazzle the young with the checklist of everything in this world. Eventually it will frustrate you until you beat The Akinatorand get to put what it did not know in it. But is that possible? Try The Akinator out for yourself and try to beat it!
