History
A hypothetical time in the future when computers will become smarter than humans and will themselves produce machines smarter than themselves, which will in turn produce machines smarter than themselves and so on...
What is the Singularity?
A TV Show that featured an unnamed computer aboard a spaceship. The computer answered any question put to it and inspired modern day question-answering systems such as Alexa, Cortana etc.
What is Star Trek?
Synthetic media developed using deep learning, in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness.
What are deepfakes?
A computer with hardware and software for playing chess, which reached Grand Master level and in 1997 defeated the reigning world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a 6-game match.
What is DeepBlue?
A well known work of science fiction that features an AI named HAL, which suffers from cognitive dissonance and "computer neurosis." It ultimately turns into a killer.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
A face-detecting Amazon program which has been in the news. An ACLU study had reported that the program incorrectly matched 28 members of the US Congress with mugshot photos, particularly Congresspeople of color. Amazon announced a 1 year moratorium on police use of this program in response to the George Floyd protests.
What is Rekognition?
An operational method proposed by a British mathematician in 1950 to answer the question "Can a machine think?". It consists of two contestants - a computer and a human. Each is questioned separately by a human judge who tries to determine which is which (computer and human). The contestants are physically separated from the judge. Communication is via typed text.
What is the Turning Test or the Imitation Game?
A famous science fiction writer who proposed the "fundamental laws of robotics".
Who is Isaac Asimov?
A mathematician at Dartmouth College credited with officially founding the field of AI and inventing the term "Artificial Intelligence".
Who is John McCarthy?
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?
An important milestone in the history of AI, and an influential great-grand parent of modern AI's most successful tool, deep neural network, invented by psychologist Frank Rosenblatt.
What is perceptron?
A game in which contestants have to guess questions for given clues or "answers". IBM's Watson program defeated human players at this game in 2011.
What is Jeopardy?