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Before ChatGPT, before AI startups, and long before GPUs became the world's hottest commodity, one researcher coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" at a summer workshop in 1956. Today, he's often called the "Father of AI." Who is he?
John McCarthy
Which billionaire both co-founded OpenAI and later sued it?
Elon Musk
Grok is named after a word meaning
To understand deeply
AI is far more dangerous than nukes.
Elon Musk
Which country has a real-life unicorn as its national animal?
Scotland
Nicknamed the "Godfather of AI," this researcher later left Google so he could freely speak about the risks of AI. Who is he?
Geoffrey Hinton
In 1920, a Czech playwright staged a drama about workers built to serve humans, until they rebelled. To name these creatures, he borrowed a word from his language meaning "forced labor" or "drudgery." The play was called R.U.R., and the word it introduced went on to describe machines everywhere. What word was it?
Robot
Sora is named after
A Japanese word meaning "sky"
"Move fast and break things."
Mark Zuckerberg
Which famous food was invented by accident while trying to make medicine?
Coca-Cola
Before "vibe coding" became a meme, this AI educator popularized coding neural networks from scratch and coined the term "Software 2.0." Who is he?
Andrej Karpathy
The year is 1997. Garry Kasparov sits across from a machine, and loses, for the first time in history. Convinced no computer could play so cleverly, he accuses IBM of hiding a human inside. The "creative" move that spooked him was later found to a be a software bug that fired off a random fallback move. Name the machine that beat him.
Deep Blue
OpenAI's "o" in o1/o3 models refers to
reasoning-focused model series
"The hottest new programming language is English."
(Hint: His Stanford lectures became the unofficial Deep Learning curriculum for half the AI industry?)
Andrej Karpathy
Which country has more pyramids than Egypt?
Sudan
Before leading an AI lab, this person was a child chess prodigy and even designed video games. Today, he leads the team behind AlphaGo. Who is he?
Demis Hassabis
This man was a WII codebreaker at Bletchley Park. He created created a test called the Imitation Game (later known by another name) modeled on a party game about guessing whether a hidden person was a man or woman
Alan Turing
Which AI model sounds like it belongs in a zoo?
Llama
"if anyone has gpu capacity in 100k chunks we can get asap please call!"
He called himself GPU poor...
Sam Altman
The inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in:
A Pringles can
Modern computer vision owes a lot to one dataset she helped create. millions of labeled images that transformed AI research. Who is she?
Fei-Fei Li
Claude is named after
Claude Shannon
What was the first word ever generated by GPT-2?
A) Hello
B) The
C) Artificial
GPT models generate token-by-token, so there isn't a meaningful "first word".
"We Have No Moat"
Hint: He leaked internal Google memo claimed that neither Google nor OpenAI had a moat because open source was catching up
Luke Sernau
Which country once changed its capital city because of a fortune teller?
Myanmar