Guess the character with Akinator!

[mathgrant]

Akinator is an AI that guesses what character (real or fictional) you are thinking of by asking yes or no questions. These questions come from actual rounds that Akinator has won. Can you guess the subjects?

1. [note: this one's highly abridged from the actual question chain]
Has your character really existed? Yes
Is your character currently more than 50 years old? No
Is your character famous? Yes
Is your character from Facebook? Yes

2. [note: this one's highly abridged from the actual question chain]
Is your character a scientist? - Yes
Has your character really existed? - No
Is your character white-haired? - Yes
Is your character linked with cars? - Yes

3. Is your character real? Yes
Is your character's gender female? No
Is your character more than 40 years old? Yes
Is your character an actor? No
Is your character dead ? Yes
Is your character American ? Yes
Has your character been the president of a country? No
Is your character a singer, or does he work with a singer (as a songwriter, producer, musician...)? No
Is your character linked with sports? Probably/partially
Is your character a writer? Probably/partially
Has your character been dead for more than 20 years? No
Has your character been world champion? Yes
Is your character heavily muscled? No
Was your character considered a child prodigy? Yes
Is your character a military man? No
Is your character a teacher? Probably/partially
Is your character a psychologist? No
Does the name of your character appear in the title of a movie? Yes

4.
Is your character real? No
Does your character have human skin? Yes
Does your character live in America? Yes
Does your character belong to an animated cartoon? No
Is your character from a TV series? No
Does your character use guns? Yes [Akinator expected a "No" answer, but I beg to differ.]
Is your character from a video game? Probably/partially [The character is not most well known for video game appearances, but video game adaptations exist.]
Is your character found in a cinematic trilogy? Yes
Does the name of your character appear in the title of a movie? No
Can your character fly? No
Has your character played in horror films? No
Does your character appear in a mafia movie? No
Is your character a policeman or a detective? No
Does your character fight Kung-Fu style? No
Has your character played in a movie with robots? No
Does your character have long hair? No
Has your character killed humans? No
Was your character famous in the 80s? No
Is your character a scientist? No
Does your character have a brother or sister? Yes
Is your character blond? Yes
Is your character an adult man? No
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[Zag]

Wow! It is freakishly good. I finally defeated it, after 5 or 6 tries (my 3rd serious try to stump it), with Wilbur, the character from the old Mr. Ed TV series. That was after it got some second-tier science fiction authors, and a couple of characters from only moderately popular TV series.

Once it was stumped, it offered a list of names, asking if it was there, and it was! Possibly I had answered some of the answers wrong, and it really did know it!

Some of them it doesn't even seem to be getting close, and then it guesses the right name. Try Gary Gygax. It didn't even seem close, but then it asked, "Is your characters linked to dragons?"

[mathgrant]

It is freakish how Akinator can seem nowhere close to being able to know your character, and then suddenly figure it out. That's why I think some good trivia puzzles can be made out of lines of questioning from Akinator rounds.

Akinator gets his knowledge from other players; I'm sure Gary Gygax stumped him at first, but as more players thought, "Hey, Gary Gygax would surely stump the robotic genie!", Akinator learned more about him, and adapted accordingly.
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[Gomez*]

Is no.2 Edison?

[mathgrant]

[Gomez*]

Holy Jesus, this thing is amazing! It took me five tries before I could beat it. The first time I went with Doctor Who, and in nine questions it not only got the answer but also the specific doctor I was thinking of! I finally beat it with David Brent (from the original version of The Office) but it only needed a couple of extra questions to get that too.

[Gomez*]

[Gomez*]

And is 3 Bobby Fischer?

[raekuul]

2 has to be Doc Brown.

I wanted Akinator to win when I went through, so I went with characters he already knew. He failed on the second person, though, but that's probably because I seem to be the only person that knows the answers to her questions.

[mathgrant]

Doc Emmett L. Brown and Bobby Fischer are absolutely correct!
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[Zag]

It guessed right after this series of questions. I was impressed because it didn't seem especially close. (The first answer is my answer, the second is the one it said it was expecting for that character.)

Has your character really existed? Yes Yes
Is your character a woman ? No No
Is your character more than 40 years old? Yes Yes
Is your character dead ? Yes Yes
Is your character an actor? No No
Is your character American ? Yes Yes
Is your character a politician? No No
Is your character a singer, or does he work with a singer (as a songwriter, producer, musician...)? No No
Is your character linked with sports? No No
Has your character killed humans? Probably not No
Is your character a writer? No No
Has your character invented something important? No No
Has your character been dead for more than 100 years? No No
Is your character a military man? No No
Is your character the head of a group of people? No No
Is your character famous thanks to television? No No
Is your character's work dangerous? Probably Yes
Does your character have a beard? No No
Is your character linked with the sky? No No
Has your character been tried for murder? No No

[ralphmerridew]

Well, I went through five tries, and stumped it on two:
Yuuki Miaka (Fushigi Yuugi)
Torg (Sluggy Freelance)
Lexx (Alien Dice), failed
Beatrice (Umineko)
Benjamin Butler, failed

Was surprised on the last one. It had "Civil War general" around question 12, and still couldn't narrow down the answer.

[Gomez*]

Hmm, for Zag's one we're looking for a clean-shaven American male who was died within the last hundred years, was over 40 at the time, and who had a dangerous occupation. He's not an actor, singer, sportsman, writer, inventor, soldier, or a leader, political or otherwise. He is also not a fictional character. That doesn't leave much...

[raekuul]

Here's one for you to puzzle out. Answers given are only what Akinator was looking for.

[Zag]

[mathgrant]

Is raekuul's The Guy, from I Wanna Be The Guy?
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[bgg1996]

Is Zag's Evel Knievel?
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[Zag]

[Suspence]

Houdini? (I would actually say Evel was linked with sports)

This thing is impressive...went to a party last night and played it with tons of people, worked every time. I was most impressed when it got the whale that ate Jonah.
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[Zag]

That's it.

I finally completely stumped it, such that the name wasn't even among the "does that match one of these?" after I typed the name in. Of course, I did it by going ridiculously obscure. I had tried P.T. Barnum, which it got, but in the course of looking him up on wikipedia in order to answer some of the questions, I saw that his first exhibit was an elderly black woman whom he bought (it was pre-Emancipation). She was, "a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman, Joice Heth, claimed by Barnum to have been George Washington's nurse, and to be over 160 years old."

[ralphmerridew]

mathgrant: Don't you mean The Kid?

[grz*]

I was absolutely astounded when he got this one. Answers below are *my* answers, only one differed from Akinator's answers.

[Zag]

Hmmm. Not white, not dark, so I'll assume Asian, Native American, or possibly from India.

Not a doctor, cop, or super-hero, and not in a comedy, so I'm going to guess lawyer or manager/administrator (possibly an EMT -- technically not a doctor, even if in a medical show).

That incredibly hot hindu woman on The Good Wife would, I assume, be considered a detective.

The Asian girl in Harry's Law that the male lawyer was dating. She fits every answer. Well, unless one considers that show to be a comedy. It's on the edge.

I think that there is an Indian woman lawyer who works with Franklin & Bash. (Maybe she's black, though.)

I think there's an Asian woman on Lie to Me, but she'd qualify as someone's assistant.

Am I close?

[Zag]

It got this in one guess. I was sure that the Curly Hair question was the one that zeroed it in, but it disagreed with me on that answer! Otherwise, I have no idea how it got it. (I guess there weren't that many single-parent families in 70's TV. That must be it.)

Is your character a female? No No
Is your character more than 40 years old? No Yes
Is your character from a TV series? Yes Yes
Does your character have human skin? Yes Yes
Does your character belong to an animated cartoon? No No
Does your character go to school? Yes Yes
Has your character been in something produced by the Disney Company? No No
Can your character be seen on Nickelodeon? No No
Does your character live with both his parents? No No
Does your character mostly play in comedies? Yes Yes
Does your character have white skin? Yes Yes
Does your character live with its father? No No
Is your character a High School student? Yes No
Is your character a cast or a character from 'Glee'? No No
Does your character have curly hair? Yes Don't know
Is your character a football (soccer) player? No ?
Does your character belong to the 70s? Yes Yes
Does your character live in California? Don't know Don't know
Does your character really exist? No No
Does your character drink beer? No No

[referee]

Is your character a girl? Yes
Does your character live in America? No
Is your character famous? Yes*
Is your character European? No*
Is your character real? No
Is your character from an anime (Japanese animation)? No
Does your character fight? No
Is your character an animal? No
Is your character black-haired? Yes
Is your character from a Walt Disney animated feature? No
Is your character an adult? No
Is your character an explorer? No
Is your character Japanese? No
Is your character from Latin America? No
Is your character Asian? Yes*
Is your character linked with sports? No
Is your character Korean? No
Is your character Chinese? No
Is your character a student? Yes
Does your character have a brother or sister? Yes

He expected opposite answers in the * questions, but I still agree more with mine.
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[raekuul]

@ralphmerridew Correct; the answer that sets the two apart is whether he's an adult or not.

Time for the one I was training Akinator to recognize:

[Coyote*]

*chuckle* If you answer 'yes' every time, regardless of the question, Akinator will guess 'A smart guy who always presses yes (That would be you)'
If you always answer 'no', he'll guess 'The grouchiest player ever (hates saying yes)'

[groza528]

[ChickenMarengo]

Surely mathgrant's #1 is Mark Zuckerberg

I managed to stump it with Mr Prosser from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[Jack_Ian]

I was surprised that it recognised some minor mythical Irish characters, and even more surprised when it said that 700+ people already played with that character.
It totally shocked me by guessing Skulduggery Pleasant. It seemed to be going nowhere and then asked "Is your character a skeleton?" after which it guessed correctly.

I finally stumped it with Patrick O'Donnell.
Thank God for obscure Irish heroes.

[mathgrant]

[Zag]

It bugs me more than it should when Akinator has an answer that is simply wrong. I realize that it isn't interested in actual facts, just with the response that the majority of people give. But come on, people, Zeus is not mortal.

[groza528]

OK, so the hint for mine:
Akinator expected me to say that the character was male.

[Jack_Ian]

[groza528]

[Silverfire]

This is awesome!

I love the questions that seem to come out of right field, such as when it asked if Barack Obama was from the Dragon Quest series (after already having been told that he was a real-world politician.) Or when the last question it asked before guessing (correctly) was whether my character had green hair. I guess it must have narrowed the choices down to two, one of whom had green hair.

[Suspence]