AI ORIGINS
AI TIMELINE
AI WINTERS
AI BREAKTHROUGHS
MODERN AI
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This British mathematician asked the famous question, "Can Machines Think?"
Who is Alan Turing?
100
In what year was the Turing Test proposed?
What is 1950?
100
The term for periods when AI funding and research significantly declined.
What is an AI Winter?
100
The 1958 model that became the ancestor of today's neural networks.
What is the Perceptron?
100
AI capable of generating text, images, audio, and videos.
What is Generative AI?
200
This test determines whether a machine can imitate intelligent human conversation.
What is the Turing Test?
200
The event in 1956 is considered the birth of AI.
What is the Dartmouth Summer Research Project?
200
The main reason the first AI Winter occurred.
What is unrealistic expectations exceeding actual AI capabilities?
200
The learning algorithm that enabled neural networks to improve by adjusting weights.
What is Backpropagation?
200
AI that understands and combines text, images, and audio.
What is Multimodal AI?
300
This 1956 workshop officially marked the birth of Artificial Intelligence as a research field.
What is the Dartmouth Summer Research Project?
300
The chatbot developed in 1966 that imitated a psychotherapist.
What is ELIZA?
300
The report that led to major AI funding cuts in the United Kingdom.
What is the Lighthill Report?
300
DeepMind's AI that defeated a world champion in Go.
What is AlphaGo?
300
AI systems that autonomously perform multi-step tasks.
What are AI Agents?
400
He coined the term "Artificial Intelligence."
Who is John McCarthy?
400
IBM's computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
What is Deep Blue?
400
The technology whose commercial collapse contributed to the second AI Winter.
What are Expert Systems?
400
This machine learning approach helped AlphaGo improve by learning through trial and error.
What is Reinforcement Learning?
400
AI models that run directly on devices instead of relying on cloud servers.
What is Edge AI?
500
Name TWO other founders of the Dartmouth Conference besides John McCarthy.
Who is Marvin Minsky?
Who is Claude Shannon?
Who is Nathaniel Rochester?
500
This 2012 breakthrough proved that deep neural networks trained with large datasets and GPUs could significantly outperform previous image-recognition methods, ushering in the modern era of deep learning.
What is AlexNet?
500
This recurring cycle occurs when AI breakthroughs create high expectations, followed by limited results, funding cuts, and eventual recovery.
What is the AI boom-and-bust cycle (AI hype cycle)?
500
The architecture introduced by the paper "Attention Is All You Need."
What is the Transformer?
500
The preferred way to discuss AI's future based on evidence rather than certainty.
What are plausible futures?
