Stump a Computer Star Trek Contest
October 3, 2008 by brian
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SFUniverse readers, your mission should you choose to accept it is to outwit the 20Q artificial intelligence in regards to Star Trek lore. Players pick a person, place or thing (in this case from the Star Trek universe) and the advanced AI has 20 questions to guess it in.
To tune people into this new Star Trek version of the game we’re offering a prize pack including handheld versions of Harry Potter and Simpsons video games as well as Star Trek DVD’s.
Each time someone plays the game, the machine gets smarter. Since its 1988 inception 20Q’s AI has become an expert in everything from Harry Potter to the Old Testament.
To play the game, go to the 20Q Star Trek site here. To enter the contest, just comment on our boards and tell us if you or the machine won, and also what term you tried to make it guess. The contest deadline is Oct. 13.
(SFUniverse will not be held responsible if the 20Q AI’s knowledge of science fiction allows it to become sentient and thus ascend to be our robot overlord.)
I took a quess at the very end and it appears that I won – I think? I got the message stating ‘I’m wondering if my data files are corrupted. You win!’
Perhaps I took this quiz too early
Enter me in the contest and if I win perhaps I’ll wake up
It says I won…But I really think it would have helped if I knew more about the person I picked. I picked The Doctor and it couldn’t guess it.
Yeah, they tell us the machine needs to play a lot to get smarter. Especially with a universe like Star Trek, there are going to be a lot of obscure things for it to learn.
Well, I’m sure it’s much smarter than me…I’m just stupid when it comes to Star Trek… LOL