AI Origins
This 2016 chatbot from Microsoft had the personality of a teenager and had to be taken down in less than 24 hours after tweeting things like "Hitler was right".
Who is Tay?
In 2015, Google created a holding company named ___
What is Alphabet Inc?
A co-founder of Apple, this man is credited with developing the first Apple computer.
Who is Steve Wozniak?
In 2016 this highly anticipated phone kept catching fire and ended up being banned on US domestic flights.
What is Samsung Galaxy Note 7?
This test, conceived in 1950, attempted to define what it means to 'think' and is regarded as the first serious proposal to assess artificial intelligence.
What is the Turing Test?
What is Microsoft?
This Redmond big-wig is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Who is Steve Ballmer?
This company chose to use cameras instead of LiDAR - a decision that is under investigation by the NTSB relating to a number of deaths.
What is Tesla?
In 1997, this computer beat reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match.
What is Deep Blue?
This is the only international tech company in the top 5 of Forbes Largest Tech Companies List.
What is the Samsung Group?
These brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
Who are the Winklevoss twins?
This company still holds the record for the largest single data-breach, accidentally leaking over 3 billion user's details in 2016.
What is Yahoo?
This famous 19th Century monster is often regarded as the first notable fictional 'Artificial Intelligence'.
Who is Frankenstein?
Recently sold at auction for $223,000 this computer was the first product sold by Apple.
What is the Apple-1 Computer.
Childhood best friend of Bill Gates who passed away in 2018.
Who is Paul Allen?
This company created a program - codenamed 'Greyball' - that was originally intended to protect users from fraud, but ended up being used to track journalists and government officials.
What is Uber?
This company that attracted investment from Microsoft and Qatar's Sovereign Wealth Fund pretended to be powered by AI but was actually just 700 India-based engineers.
What is Builder.ai?
In 1980, Microsoft signed a contract with this tech company to develop the operating system for their computer.
What is IBM?
The founder of Oculus VR, this billionaire has controversially pivoted into defense technology.
Who is Palmer Luckey?
This political consulting firm harvested data from millions of Facebook users without their consent in 2016.
Who is Cambridge Analytica?