Since humanity has stepped into the era of AI (Artificial Intelligence), we have made tremendous progress in the field. AI has not only found its way into various industries helping us carry out difficult tasks with ease, but it has also kept us entertained. One of the ways in which AI has been entertaining us is Akinator, at the same time as keeping us guessing about this incredible technology.
Although many of you will have heard about it already, for the uninitiated, Akinator is a web genie. It is a sort of online game that went viral a while ago. The web genie accurately predicts prominent individuals, celebrities, fictional characters, animals, and objects while playing a game. Akinator work prompts 20 questions, prompting players to choose a correct answer. The web genie then guesses the player’s thoughts during the game.
Incredibly, Akinator guesses the correct answer almost every time you play the game. It is said to have an accuracy rate of 99 percent. The decision tree can accurately guess famous celebrities, personalities, superheroes, and characters like Kevin McCallister, Dora the Explorer, Julian Casablancas, and Chester Bennington.
If you wish to play the game on your mobile phone, it is available as an app on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
However, getting back to our original question, let’s look at how Akinator works.
How Does Akinator Work?
Akinator uses an extremely complex algorithm developed by Elokence.com. The algorithm runs the answers to the questions answered by you through a database that has information about almost all important people, fictional characters, objects, and animals in the world.
Your selections run through millions of possibilities, counting down to a selected few as the questions near the 20 mark. Moreover, the questions and their answers are designed in a way to lower the possibilities by half every time a question is answered. For example, selecting if the person is fictional or not substantially reduces the number of probable answers.
Was the Akinator Database Built Exclusively for the Game?
This is a question no one knows the answer to, except the guys at Akinator. The developing company Elokence has decided to keep all information about the AI’s algorithm a secret. Many speculate that Akinator may be utilizing a global public or non-public database to accurately guess the names of people, animals, or things in real-time.
In our opinion, one of the biggest sources of close-to-legitimate information available to everyone with access to the internet is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has detailed information about almost anything important in this world. Wikipedia is a reliable resource for gathering data on places, people, events, dates, and characteristics, making it an ideal tool for developing precise games. The way this online game guesses characters is truly intriguing and the use of sources like Wikipedia seems very natural.
However, there is a problem with Wikipedia. The information available on it is not necessarily accurate as it is maintained by a community. Although the information cannot be trusted all the time and is not necessarily always up to date, it is true most of the time.
Whatever the case may be, the developers of this game have done a tremendous job creating something like this. The working algorithm of Akinator work might not be a mystery but it is definitely interesting.
Does Akinator Update its Database?
This entertaining game updates its database, which includes learning through its users. The Akinator game asks 20 questions, but if it can’t guess the name you had in mind, it prompts you to provide the person’s name. Although this is very rare, Akinator uses this input to build its database with the answered questions. Akinator has faced numerous challenges in the past few years, often failing to accurately predict the player’s intentions or intentions. Many, if not all of these times when people entered the correct name would definitely have helped Akinator. This way, the iconic web genie is not just entertaining you, it is also learning from you.
Final Thoughts
As time passes, we can only hope Akinator will enrich its database and guess more precisely. But the question of how exactly this web genie works still remains unanswered. The algorithm’s exact workings may remain unknown until developers provide information or a genius solves it. Until then, the best option for us is to sit back and enjoy Akinator whenever we have time for it.
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