AI
What does the acronym "AI" stand for?
Artificial Intelligence
The name of the connector most commonly used to attach external hard drives, flash drives, peripherals, and other devices to a computer.
What is Universal Serial Bus (USB)?
CPU
Central Processing Unit
This extremely popular algorithm was designed to play a game involving two players strategically moving select black and white pieces across a 8x8 board.
What is Stockfish?
This tech CEO sent a car into space because, well, why not?
Who is Elon Musk?
Name one popular open-source framework used for deep learning and neural network research.
TensorFlow or PyTorch
The type of computer memory that is volatile and loses data when power is turned off.
What is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
www
World Wide Web
This popular block-based sandbox video game was beat in less than twenty seconds with the help of computer algorithms.
This famous tech entrepreneur dropped out of Harvard and is often seen as a lizard.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Which AI subfield focuses on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language?
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The name of the process used to manufacture computer processors (the actual silicon).
What is Photolithography?
PIN
personal identification number
This gaming algorithm is known as on one of the strongest in the world for its ability to optimally play popular Asian board game Go, where two players compete over pieces and squares.
What is AlphaGo?
This tech titan started his business as an online bookstore.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
What deep learning model architecture, introduced by Geoffrey Hinton and his team, has been particularly successful in tasks like image classification?
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
The name of the component that stabilizes and reduces the voltage being sent to components, which is usually found on the motherboard.
What are Voltage Regulator Modules (VRMs)?
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
In an algorithm designed by Andrei Karpathy, this relatively simple video game, typically used as a coding project for beginners, consisting of a ball moving between two paddles, was optimized far beyond human limits.
What is Pong?
This tech titan is the current CEO of Google.
Who is Sundar Pichai?
What is the technological advancement within NLP (Natural language processing) and RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks) that allowed Ai models such as GPT and Bert.
Extra 200 points if you know the research paper that created this tech.
Transformers
Attention is all you need
The name of the structure that is designed to reduce the time or energy cost of a CPU accessing data.
What is (CPU) Cache?
GPT
Generative Pre-training Transformer
This computer algorithm competed in 1997 for the title of chess world champion with then world champion, Garry Kasparov. The first match was won by Kasparov, 4-2, and the second was lost, 3-1-1: a match later highlighted in Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine.
What is Deep Blue?
In a famous chess match, this tech titan once played against Magnus Carlsen.
Who is Bill Gates?