AI Firsts & Feats
In 2011, this IBM computer defeated champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy!
What is Watson?
Marty McFly rides this floating skateboard-like device through the future of 2015 in Back to the Future Part II.
What is a hoverboard?
Science fact or science fiction: Humanity has successfully flown a powered aircraft on another planet.
Science fact
In an 1865 novel, this author imagined humans being launched from Florida toward the Moon—more than a century before Apollo.
Who is Jules Verne?
Before AlphaGo conquered Go, IBM's Deep Blue famously challenged world champion Garry Kasparov at this game.
What is chess?
Fry accidentally freezes himself and wakes up roughly 1,000 years later in this animated series.
What is Futurama?
NASA's Ingenuity became the first powered aircraft to fly on another world. Name that world.
What is Mars?
Jules Verne's remarkably prescient Moon-voyage novel was called From the Earth to the this.
What is Moon?
AlphaGeometry was designed to tackle problems at the level of this international competition for elite high-school mathematicians.
What is the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)?
In The Martian, stranded astronaut Mark Watney famously grows this food to help survive on Mars.
What are potatoes?
In 2022, NASA deliberately slammed DART into this type of celestial body to test whether humans could alter its motion.
What is an asteroid?
Verne's fictional Moon mission and the real Apollo missions both launched from this U.S. state.
What is Florida?
DeepMind's AlphaZero taught itself chess primarily by repeatedly doing this rather than studying a database of human games.
What is playing against itself / self-play?
In Blade Runner, the bioengineered humans hunted by blade runners are known by this name.
What are replicants?
NASA's DART mission marked the first time humanity intentionally changed the motion of one of these objects in space.
What is a celestial object / asteroid?
The orbital region used by geostationary communications satellites is sometimes nicknamed this “belt” after the author who popularized the idea.
What is the Clarke Belt?