Twenty Questions - Game 391

[Jamiet99uk]

NY Times best selling author?

Yes, this person has written a book which made the New York times bestseller list.

QM NOTE:
I feel this answer, while entirely correct, is likely to mislead you. Therefore I will very generously provide the additional clue that the book in question was not a novel.

[Spartaculous]

You: Can you suggest a female musician, born before 1960, who wrote a book (that isn't a novel) that was on the New York Times bestsellers list?

Copilot:
Sure! Joan Baez, born in 1941, is a renowned folk musician who fits your criteria. She wrote a memoir titled “And a Voice to Sing With”, which was published in 1987 and became a New York Times bestseller.

Is there anything specific you’d like to know about her or her book?

[Jamiet99uk]

You: Can you suggest a female musician, born before 1960, who wrote a book (that isn't a novel) that was on the New York Times bestsellers list?

Copilot:
Sure! Joan Baez, born in 1941, is a renowned folk musician who fits your criteria. She wrote a memoir titled “And a Voice to Sing With”, which was published in 1987 and became a New York Times bestseller.

Is there anything specific you’d like to know about her or her book?

Joan Baez is the correct answer but I don't much care for using an AI to play this game.

[Jamiet99uk]

So, uh. Yeah. This round is over.

[Aristocrat]

Tbh I suspect AI has been being used for some time now (nothing concrete, just a strong hunch)

Also welcome back Sparty

[DreamTrawler]

For whatever it’s worth, I personally have not used AI for this game (outside of the annoying Google summaries that pop up) and would be down to make a (probably unenforceable) rule to avoid it in the future.

[Spartaculous]

You: Can you suggest a female musician, born before 1960, who wrote a book (that isn't a novel) that was on the New York Times bestsellers list?

Copilot:
Sure! Joan Baez, born in 1941, is a renowned folk musician who fits your criteria. She wrote a memoir titled “And a Voice to Sing With”, which was published in 1987 and became a New York Times bestseller.

Is there anything specific you’d like to know about her or her book?

Joan Baez is the correct answer but I don't much care for using an AI to play this game.

Jamie, I'm sorry I that ruined your QM experience by using AI. I wouldn't have done so had I known that it would have bothered you - I was just indulging in some personal silliness in terms of pushing the boundaries of the rules, perhaps in the same spirit as your mafia-themed avatars you sometimes use.

I know this was your first QM round in a while, and I don't want it to end on a sour note. I will happily have "Microsoft Copilot" be acknowledged as the winner of this round and pass QM powers back to you.

[Spartaculous]

Tbh I suspect AI has been being used for some time now (nothing concrete, just a strong hunch)

I've tried it in one, maybe two other rounds, but this is the first time it has "worked". (Before, I'd give it a list of several conditions and it would always give me an answer that failed one of the conditions. When I pointed this out to Copilot, it would cheerfully apologize, and suggest a different answer that also failed a condition. And so on. An interesting lesson, to be sure.) Now that I got it to work once, I don't plan on using it again in the future.

Also welcome back Sparty

Thank you!

[Jamiet99uk]

It just feels quite underwhelming if "Copilot" declares the answer, rather than you working it out yourself, even if people *have* been using AI-powered search tools. I recognise there's no explicit rule against it, and it can't be policed.

Maybe it's Copilot's turn to set the next round?

[Spartaculous]

It just feels quite underwhelming if "Copilot" declares the answer, rather than you working it out yourself...

I agree. And that's why I won't use AI in the future for guessing in 20Q.

[Jamiet99uk]

It just feels quite underwhelming if "Copilot" declares the answer, rather than you working it out yourself...

I agree. And that's why I won't use AI in the future for guessing in 20Q.

Okay. Well done, Copilot, ha.

Do you want me to set another one?

[Spartaculous]

It just feels quite underwhelming if "Copilot" declares the answer, rather than you working it out yourself...

I agree. And that's why I won't use AI in the future for guessing in 20Q.

Okay. Well done, Copilot, ha.

Do you want me to set another one?

Yep; I think that's the best way to handle this.

[JECE]

Jamiet99uk: You should ask Copilot to come up with an extremely obscure entity so that you win the game, ha ha

[Jamiet99uk]

Alright, a new game is coming soon.

[Jamiet99uk]

Note: Game 392's subject will be set by me, not an AI.

I asked ChatGPT, "Can you suggest a subject for people to guess in a game of 20 Questions?"

It's first reply was: "A breadbox"

(By which I assume it means a bread bin).

So I said: "No, could you pick a person instead?"

It replied: "Sure! How about a Mailman?"

[Spartaculous]

Note: Game 392's subject will be set by me, not an AI.

I asked ChatGPT, "Can you suggest a subject for people to guess in a game of 20 Questions?"

It's first reply was: "A breadbox"

(By which I assume it means a bread bin).

So I said: "No, could you pick a person instead?"

It replied: "Sure! How about a Mailman?"

In the spirit of round 140, you could have picked Mr. McFeely.

[Hominidae]

By the way: welcome back, Spartaculous!