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Article: Is it mineral? Yes. Is it good at 20 Questions? You'd better believe it.(Recreation)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2005
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
It knows what you're thinking. Most of the time, anyway.
Like every invention, like every toy, it was created by a human being. But it's smarter than that human being when it comes to making educated guesses. Smarter than any of us, for that matter.
It is, to be sure, downright creepy.
It's that old game called 20 Questions, except that now it's you against the machine. It's an electronic, handheld version of the game, called 20Q, and billed as the world's first "artificial intelligence" game. This is the future, folks. And here's the rest of everything you need to know about it in the answers to ...