AI History
This company (founded by Mark Zuckerberg) programmed two AI chatbots to converse, and they ended up forgoing English and developing their own language.
What is Facebook?
This 2008 Pixar film features a lonely robot cleaning up Earth and falling in love with another robot named EVE.
What is WALL-E?
This is the tech company behind ChatGPT and the creation of GPT-4 Turbo.
What is OpenAI?
This is a major concern when facial recognition systems misidentify people of color.
What is bias?
This platform’s “For You” page is driven by a powerful recommendation algorithm.
What is TikTok?
This 1950 experiment is a way to measure a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.
What is the Turing Test?
This AI voice assistant, named after a famous Halo character, was Microsoft's answer to Siri and Alexa.
What is Cortana?
This branch of AI, along with machine learning and neural networks, enables chatbots to interpret and generate human language and hold natural conversations.
What is Natural Language Processing? (NLP)
Regulations like this European law aim to give people more control over their personal data.
What is General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
This algorithm finds the shortest path between nodes and is commonly used in maps.
What is Dijkstra's algorithm?
In 1997, this AI program made by IBM defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, marking a major milestone in AI and showing that machines could outperform humans in strategic games.
What is Deep Blue?
This AI assistant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe eventually becomes the superhero Vision.
Who is J.A.R.V.I.S.?
This type of model processes not only text data, but also video data, image data, and audio data.
What is a Multimodal model?
This is the term for using someone’s voice or face in AI-generated media without permission.
What is a deepfake?
This classic algorithm repeatedly swaps adjacent elements until everything’s in order.
What is bubble sort?
This "Father of AI" organized the Dartmouth Conference in 1956, which is regarded as the founding moment of artificial intelligence as a field of research.
Who is John McCarthy?
In 2023, this rapper's voice was cloned using AI to make viral songs like “Heart on My Sleeve,” sparking major music industry backlash.
Who is Drake?
In 2025, OpenAI introduced this model that can generate realistic video clips from text descriptions.
What is Sora?
This type of AI data issue occurs when a dataset doesn’t represent the real-world population.
What is data bias/sampling bias?
PageRank, Google's original search algorithm, was created by this co-founder.
Who is Larry Page?
This first successful AI program, developed by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in 1955, was designed to prove mathematical theorems and successfully proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in Principia Mathematica.
What is the Logic Theorist?
In 2023, an AI-generated image of this religious figure wearing a white puffer jacket went viral, sparking debates about misinformation and how real AI art can look.
Who is the Pope?
This technique, used by tools like Dall-E 2, allows AI to fill in missing parts of an image or creatively edit existing ones.
What is inpainting?
When AI decisions can’t be easily explained, this problem arises.
What is the black box problem?
This unsupervised learning method groups data based on similarity.
What is clustering?