Computer Historian
This technology was used for circuitry in first-generation computers.
What are vacuum tubes?
In 1950, this British mathematician proposed the Imitation Game as a way to test machine intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
This first-generation programming language consists entirely of 0s and 1s.
What is machine language?
This English mathematician is known as the world's first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This AI chatbot was released by OpenAI in 2022 and helped bring generative AI into the mainstream.
What is ChatGPT?
These replaced vacuum tubes in second-generation computers, making computers smaller and more reliable.
What are transistors?
At this 1956 event, John McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence.
What is the Dartmouth Workshop?
This second-generation language uses instructions such as ADD and MOV and requires a translator called an assembler.
What is Assembly Language?
This inventor designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
Who is Charles Babbage?
When AI learns from historical data containing unfair stereotypes and then repeats those patterns, this problem occurs.
What is AI bias?
These components, introduced in the third generation, combined multiple electronic components into a single circuit.
What are Integrated Circuits (ICs)?
This IBM supercomputer defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a 1997 six-game match.
What is Deep Blue?
Python, Java, C, and C++ belong to this generation of programming languages.
What is the third generation? (3GL)
This computer scientist helped develop COBOL and created an early compiler.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This 1965 prediction stated that the number of transistors on computer chips would double approximately every two years.
What is Moore's Law?
This technology defines fourth-generation computers and helped make personal computers possible.
What are microprocessors?
Deep Blue's specialized hardware consisted of 30 nodes equipped with this many chess processors.
What are 480 specialized chess processors?
Unlike fourth-generation languages, which focus on what result is wanted, fifth-generation languages primarily use this approach to solve problems.
What are constraints and logic?
Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine to calculate these mathematical numbers.
What are Bernoulli numbers?
According to the presentation's 2040 prediction, AI could independently operate these facilities to invent new materials.
What are robotic laboratories?
A computer from the first generation operated in milliseconds, while fourth-generation computers operated in picoseconds. What does this demonstrate about the evolution of computer processing speed?
What is a dramatic increase in processing speed, with processing time decreasing from milliseconds to picoseconds?
Deep Blue's victory helped shift AI research away from imitating human psychological thought processes and toward this computational approach.
What are brute-force parallel processing and advanced heuristic optimization?
A programmer wants to retrieve specific information from a database without writing every individual step of how the computer should retrieve it. Which programming language generation best describes this approach, and why?
What is fourth-generation programming (4GL), because it is declarative and focuses on what data to retrieve rather than how to retrieve it?
Babbage's Analytical Engine contained two important components: the "Mill" and the "Store." What modern computer components did these represent?
What are the CPU (central processing unit) and memory, respectively?
During the AI Winters of the 1970s and 1980s, funding disappeared and projects were canceled. What fundamental technological limitation caused these setbacks?
What is the inability of older computers to provide enough processing power to fulfill AI researchers' ambitious promises?