ML Trivia

Who wrote that paper?

100

First and last author of the GPT 2 paper

Alec Radford and Ilya Sutskever

200

First author of the AlphaGo paper

David Silver

300

First author of Attention is All You Need

Vaswani

400

First author (or authors) of Alexnet

Alex Krizhevsky

500

First (and last) author of "Natural Adversarial Examples"

- the paper where they put stickers on stop signs to create real-world adversarial examples

Dan and Dawn

ML Lore

100

This breakthrough AI architecture was first coded by its author in a single night after a spirited bar-argument with classmates.

The GAN

200

The name of the AI system that defeated Garry Kasporov in chess in 1997.

Deep Blue

300

In this year, the famous go player Lee Sedol was beaten by AlphaGo in this year.

2016

400

OpenAI was founded, in-part, based on worries that this person would have too much power if AGI was obtained.

Demis Hassabis

500

This popular activation function was secretly named after this person who built the GPU cluster for AlexNet

ReLU

The Price is Right: Guess the parameter count!

100

The smallest of the Llama-3 herd

8 billion

200

GPT-2 Small

124 million

300

The largest of the Gemma3 models

27 billion

400

BERT-base

110 million

500

Deepseek V3

671 billion

Which has more GitHub stars?

100

Gemma vs Llama

Gemma: 3.5k

Llama: 59k

200

NumPy vs SciPy

NumPy: 30k

SciPy: 14k

300

PyTorch vs TensorFlow

PyTorch: 91k

TensorFlow: 191k

400

huggingface/peft vs huggingface/trl

(parameter efficient fine-tuning vs transformer RL)

PEFT: 19k

TRL: 14.5k

500

MMLU vs MATH

MMLU: 1.4k stars

MATH: 1.1k stars