What kind of algorithm is behind the Akinator game?

Question

It always amazed me how the Akinator app could guess a character by asking just several questions. So I wonder what kind of algorithm or method let it do that? Is there a na

Answer 1

Main characteristics of algorithm:

• Self-educating
• Mistakes-indulgence
• Intelligent system of next question choose

Akinator game algorithm model is called "Expert system based on Fuzzy logic".

And this is NOT Decision trees, because it's have no mistakes-indulgence.

I had wrote one some time ago on C#, you can find it by link: https://github.com/ukushu/AkinatorEngine