Animal, The First AI?

Beat that, ChatGPT!

A popular BASIC game from the early 1970s was something called Animal. In it, the computer tried to guess the animal you were thinking of.

It started off by not knowing just one animal. It then asked you a question and made a guess. When it guessed wrong it asked you for a yes/no question that will help it differentiate your pick with its guess.

It then u…