{"id":587,"date":"2004-12-08T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=587"},"modified":"2004-12-08T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:24:00","slug":"twenty-questoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-12\/587-twenty-questoins","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Questoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for the teachers and parents of school-aged kids. I stumbled upon this web site and thought of you!<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-Questions.  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.20q.net\/\">http:\/\/www.20q.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically an experiment in Artificial Intelligence (aka teaching a computer to &#8220;think&#8221;), it might be a good teaching tool for Natural Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample from a session I did. The object I had in mind was &#8220;bicycle&#8221;. The computer asked me the questions, and I gave the responses.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table BORDER =\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>1. It is classified as <b>Mineral<\/b>.<br \/>\n2. Is it involved in movies? <b>Sometimes<\/b>.<br \/>\n3. Can you buy it at a store? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n4. Would you use it daily? <b>Depends<\/b>.<br \/>\n5. Is it colourless? <b>No<\/b>.<br \/>\n6. Is it multicoloured? <b>Probably<\/b>.<br \/>\n7. Can you use it at school? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n8. Does it display information? <b>No<\/b>.<br \/>\n9. Can you play with it? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n10. Is it human powered? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n11. Does it come in a box? <b>Sometimes<\/b>.<br \/>\n12. Can it fit in an envelope? <b>No<\/b>.<br \/>\n13. Is it small? <b>Rarely<\/b>.<br \/>\n14. Is it used in a sport? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n15. Is it usually colourful? <b>Sometimes<\/b>.<br \/>\n16. Does it move? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n17. Can you sit on it? <b>Yes<\/b>.<br \/>\n18. Can it be played? <b>Rarely<\/b>.<br \/>\n19. I guess that it is a mountain bike? <b>Close<\/b>.<br \/>\n20. I am guessing that it is a bike? <b>Yes<\/b>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<i>(The web stie session actually shows the questions in reverse order with most recent question first, but I reversed the order for demonstration purposes.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for the teachers and parents of school-aged kids. I stumbled upon this web site and thought of you! Twenty-Questions. http:\/\/www.20q.net\/ Basically an experiment in Artificial Intelligence (aka teaching a computer to &#8220;think&#8221;), it might be a good teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2004-12\/587-twenty-questoins\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}