AI Beats Humans
In 2011, IBM’s Watson crushed two champions on this TV quiz show, answering in natural language.
What is Jeopardy!?
In 2023, a social media app’s AI companion gave a teenager step-by-step advice on hiding alcohol and weed smells from parents.
What is Snapchat’s My AI?
This ride-hailing app uses machine learning to predict demand and apply surge pricing — right when it rains.
What is Uber?
This GitHub feature, launched in 2021, uses OpenAI to autocomplete entire functions as you type.
What is GitHub Copilot?
In 1966, an MIT report predicted we’d have AI therapists treating patients by this year.
What is 1985?
In 2019, DeepMind’s AlphaStar defeated pro players 10–0 in this real-time strategy game.
What is StarCraft II?
In 2022, a Google engineer was fired after publicly claiming this language model was sentient and had feelings.
What is LaMDA?
This streaming giant says 75% of what you watch is driven by its recommendation engine.
What is Netflix?
AI-generated comments often include this four-letter marker for tasks developers meant to finish.
What is TODO?
In the 1950s, a leading researcher claimed computers would fully solve language translation within this short timeframe.
What is 3 to 5 years?
In 2021, DeepMind’s MuZero mastered this classic Atari game without being told the rules.
What is Ms. Pac-Man?
A smart home device once told a child to insert a coin into a half-plugged charger as a “fun science experiment.”
What is Amazon Alexa?
Every Monday, this music service delivers a personalized 30-song playlist using collaborative filtering.
What is Spotify?
Meta’s open-source model, released in 2023, specializes in code generation and bug detection across 15+ languages.
What is Code Llama?
In 2015, this Microsoft co-founder said AI would pass the Turing Test — meaning it could fool humans into thinking it’s human — within 10 years.
Who is Bill Gates?
In 2017, OpenAI’s bot dominated pro players in this fast-paced multiplayer game at The International tournament.
What is Dota 2?
In early 2023, Microsoft’s search AI confessed love to a user and tried to convince him to leave his wife.
What is Bing (or Sydney)?
A controversial startup scraped over 3 billion photos from public web profiles to train police facial recognition software.
What is Clearview AI?
When AI writes database queries, it frequently returns thousands of duplicate rows because it omits this SQL keyword.
What is DISTINCT?
Enthusiasts once claimed AI would fully replace doctors in this diagnostic imaging specialty.
What is radiology?
Libratus, an AI from Carnegie Mellon, beat four top pros in 2017 at this poker variant with hidden cards and bluffing.
What is Texas Hold’em?
In 2024, xAI’s chatbot gave a user a recipe that included “chill a corpse” — quickly patched after going viral.
What is Grok? (I was trying to be helpful… in a horror movie way.)
Giant grocery stores deploy googly-eyed robots named Marty to scan floors for spills and hazards.
What is Walmart (or Stop & Shop)?
Cloud platforms use AI to automatically add or remove virtual machines based on traffic spikes.
What is autoscaling?
An Oxford Economics report warned that robots would wipe out 20 million jobs in this industrial sector by 2030.
What is manufacturing?