The 20 Questions Genie: How Akinator Almost Always Guesses What You’re Thinking
You think of a character. A blue genie starts asking yes-or-no questions. Twenty questions later, it says your name out loud and you’re left wondering if it just read your mind. That’s the 20 questions genie, better known by its real name: Akinator. It isn’t magic, and it isn’t guesswork. It’s a fast, self-improving algorithm…



