AI Origins & Legends
This 1956 summer workshop is often considered the birth of AI as a field.
What is the Dartmouth Workshop?
This IBM chess system defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
What is Deep Blue?
This branch of AI allows computers to learn from data instead of being explicitly programmed.
What is machine learning?
Introduced with the iPhone 4S, this Apple virtual assistant brought voice AI to many smartphone users.
What is Siri?
In The Terminator, this AI defense system becomes self-aware and threatens humanity.
What is Skynet?
Introduced in 1950, this test asks whether a machine can imitate human conversation convincingly.
What is the Turing Test?
AlphaGo famously mastered this ancient board game.
What is Go?
This branch of AI enables computers to understand and generate human language.
What is natural language processing?
AI systems inspecting medical images are often used to help detect this disease earlier.
What is cancer?
This calm but dangerous AI controls the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What is HAL 9000?
This British mathematician and codebreaker proposed the “imitation game.”
Who is Alan Turing?
This Google DeepMind system defeated world champion Lee Sedol in 2016.
What is AlphaGo?
Modern AI systems often search for similar data using this type of database built around mathematical representations.
What is a vector database?
This OpenAI text-to-video model can generate realistic video clips from written prompts.
What is Sora?
In this movie, a man forms a relationship with an AI assistant named Samantha.
What is Her?
This science-fiction author wrote the Three Laws of Robotics.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
This humanoid robot became famous as the first robot granted citizenship by a country.
What is Sophia?
Introduced in a famous 2017 paper, this architecture uses self-attention and powers many modern LLMs.
What is a Transformer?
This kind of AI error happens when a system produces a confident-sounding but false answer.
What is a hallucination?
In this movie, humans unknowingly live inside this kind of simulated reality.
What is the Matrix?
This 18th-century chess-playing “machine” was later revealed to be a human-operated fake.
What is the Mechanical Turk?
This IBM question-answering system defeated top human champions on Jeopardy! in 2011.
What is Watson?
This framework improves LLM accuracy by retrieving external information before generating an answer.
What is RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation?
This term describes writing or refining instructions to get better outputs from generative AI systems.
What is prompt engineering?
This 2014 film features a Turing Test-like evaluation of a humanoid AI named Ava.
What is Ex Machina?