During a recent winter hike in the Carpathians amid crazy trash and hard weather, we suddenly “Drawing” a calm and sincere evening. We were sitting warm (at the weather station), full, almost dry and not too tired, there was nothing to do and we decided to play guessing games with pieces of paper on our foreheads.
At the beginning, everyone puts a sticker on the neighbor’s forehead with the name of some famous character. As a result, you see the characters of other players, but you do not know what is written on your own forehead. This is what you need to find out with the help of standard “danetok” with the peculiarity that you should try to get exactly positive answers, because at the first “no” the right to ask passes to the next player.
Unlike classic danettes, the game with pieces of paper on the forehead involves more communication, since the answer is not known to one person (who may turn out to be a dry formalist radish), but all at once, and this encourages participants to comment on questions and try to tell the guesser the right direction of the search. But there are also drawbacks – the fear of losing a move leads to a long deliberation and careful formulation of each question. But the funniest thing in this game is that you constantly catch glances (attentive, surprised, sympathetic) on yourself, directed not at the eyes, but at the forehead.
As a result, the evening was a success – we played great, kneaded the rusted gears, and I also took a picture.
And when I returned home, I decided to check Akinator (http://ru.akinator.com – a program that guesses characters) the most intricate and long-guessed questions of the evening.
Artificial intelligence disguised as a genie easily figured out our “problem” tasks, showing super-intuition in places. Questions “Does your character’s first and last name start with the same letter?” (in the game about K. Kinchev) and “Does your character fly?” (in the game about Carlson) appeared almost out of nowhere. It is clear that this ingenuity is explained by the phenomenal memory of Akinator, he literally remembers the experience of many thousands of games. But all the same, when you come across this in practice, the feeling that this bastard genie does not guess the character, but reads your thoughts, does not leave.
Here is the log of my games with Akinator
Game 1.
Is your character female? No
Is your character real? Yes
Is your character over 40 years old? Yes
Does your character speak Russian? Yes
Is your character dead? No
Is your character a politician? No
Is your character a singer? Yes
Does your character belong to a group? Yes
Is your character over 50 years old? Yes
Does your character have a beard and mustache? No
Is your character connected with the film “The Needle”? No
Do your character’s first and last names start with the same letter? Yes
Does your character play in a rock band? Yes
Your character : Konstantin Kinchev
Questions: 13
Game 2.
Is your character connected to the world of music? No
Did your character exist in reality? No
Is your character a cartoon hero? Yes
Does your character look like an animal? No
Is your character female? No
Is your character human? Yes
Is your character under 18? No
Does your character live in America? No
Your character from the Soviet cartoon? Yes
Does your character have a beard and mustache? No
Is your character flying? Yes
Does your character spend most of their time on the roof? Yes
Your character : Carlson, who lives on the roof
Questions: 12
Game 3.
Did your character exist in reality? No
Is your character human? Yes
Is your character male? Yes
Is your character a cartoon hero? I don’t know
Does your character have a beard? Yes
Is this character associated with winter? No
Does your character know how to conjure? No
Is your character from a Russian work? No
Is your character flying? No
Is this the hero of the book? No
Is your character a mutant? No
Is your character bad? No
Does your character wear a hat? Yes
Is your character fat? No
Has your character been shipwrecked? No
Does your character have blonde hair? Yes
Did your character live in the Roman era? No
Is your character’s name made up of three letters? Yes
Is your character one of the gods? No
Is your character under 18? No
Does your character live in America? Yes
Is your character wearing a top hat? Yes
Your character: Uncle Sam
Questions: 22
In the end, I’ll say a banal thing – a computer is good, but playing with a person is still more interesting.