It is the name of a game where an artificial intelligence represented by the genie Akinator out of a magic lamp tries to guess a character thought by the player through specific questions that can only be answered with "yes", "no", "I don't know", "probably yes", "probably not". The software was developed in 2007 by Jeff Deleau and Arnaud Magret, who don't give much information about the origin of the name; which could be inspired by the philosopher Thomas Aquinas, who sought truth by consulting all the sources at his disposal (128533;) , or perhaps directly from the Latin quid ("what is?", "what?") , in both cases by replacing the digraph /qu/ with a /k/ .
