AI in History
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Conceptual
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This man proposed the Imitation Game, aka the Turing Test in a 1950 research paper on thinking machines.
Who is Alan Turing?
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17th century philosopher Descartes famously said “I think, therefore I am”. Humans have long been fascinated with the prospect of AI developing this property, and the ethical challenges that would come with it.
What is Consciousness?
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The popular deep learning framework developed by Google Brain.
What is TensorFlow?
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In this Disney movie, a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada teams up with a plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax to solve a criminal conspiracy.
What is Big Hero 6?
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The learnable parameters of artificial neural networks, making up a node analogous to a neuron.
What are Weights and Biases?
200
The first AI system ever to win a chess match against a world chess champion, Gary Kasparov.
What is IBM Deep Blue?
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In the future, self-driving vehicles may have to make a choice between hitting an unexpected jaywalker, or potentially killing its passengers. This ethical dilemma is an example of this famous philosophical hypothetical.
What is the Trolley Problem?
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This AI feature is common on smartphones and can sometimes be a source of annoyance for users while texting.
What is Autocorrect?
200
This groundbreaking 1999 movie introduces us to Neo, who discovers the reality he lives in is a simulated world created by artificial intelligence to control humanity.
What is The Matrix?
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The kind of math computation the computer is doing the most when you run a neural network.
What is Matrix Multiplication?
300
The first AI personal voice assistant, introduced in 2011.
What is Siri?
300
An issue where an artificial intelligence system pursues goals contrary to the intended goals of the human creator or user.
What is the Alignment Problem?
300
This artificial intelligence system competed on Jeopardy! in 2011 and won first place.
What is IBM Watson?
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In this iconic film series starting in 1984, humanity is at war with an AI called Skynet, which aims to exterminate humans using cyborgs.
What is The Terminator?
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The process of training an AI model using large amounts of labeled data.
What is Supervised Learning?
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This man is most famous for his work on deep neural networks and a computer vision model named AlexNet, dubbed “The Godfather of AI”.
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
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According to this Asimov Law of Robotics, a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
What is the First Law of Robotics?
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The brand new AI model released by OpenAI capable of generating video from text.
What is Sora?
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In this popular video game series, players fight against the Covenant and an AI construct named Cortana plays a central role in the storyline.
What is "Halo"?
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When a model fits too closely to its training data and as a result is unable to generalize and performs poorly.
What is Overfitting?
500
Transformers were a breakthrough in natural language processing, eventually leading to LLMs like ChatGPT. They were first described in 2017 in a paper by engineers at this company.
What is Google?
500
This was an experiment designed to prove that a computer has no intelligence, and was specifically devised to refute a position called the Strong AI Hypothesis.
What is the Chinese Room?
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This abbreviation is used to refer to AI characters in video games.
What is an NPC?
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This term, popularized by science fiction, refers to the hypothetical point in time when an artificial intelligence agent will enter a cycle of exponential self-improvement and surpass human intelligence.
What is "The Technological Singularity"?
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An optimization algorithm that uses backpropagation to train neural network models.
What is Gradient Descent?