Hallucination and History
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue made history by becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in this classic board game.
What is Chess?
The "T" in GPT stands for this neural network architecture introduced by Google researchers in 2017.
What is Transformer?
HAL 9000 famously refused to open the pod bay doors in this iconic 1968 Stanley Kubrick sci-fi masterpiece.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
"I think, therefore I am."
Who is Human? (René Descartes)
Giving an AI an example of the desired output inside your prompt is known as this type of prompting (e.g., "One-___" or "Few-___").
What is Shot Prompting?
True or False: In 2017, Facebook had to shut down two AI chatbots because they secretly invented a rogue language to plot against human engineers.
What is False? (They altered English grammar for efficiency, not a rogue plot.)
These basic units of text—which can be words, sub-words, or individual characters—are processed by Large Language Models.
What are Tokens?
Iron Man’s voice assistant JARVIS inspired real-world smart home assistants, including this AI developed by Amazon.
What is Alexa?
"I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
Who is a Bot? (HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Telling an AI to "Think step-by-step" triggers this prompting technique that improves reasoning performance on complex tasks.
What is Chain-of-Thought (CoT)?
In 2023, a New York attorney made headlines after submitting a legal brief containing fake case citations generated by this popular OpenAI chatbot.
What is ChatGPT?
This mathematical term refers to the multi-dimensional numerical representations of text that capture semantic meaning and relationships.
What are Embeddings (or Vectors)?
In The Terminator, this self-aware military defense AI network initiates Judgment Day against humanity.
What is Skynet?
"As an AI language model, I do not have feelings, personal opinions, or physical form."
Who is a Bot? (Standard safety response from various LLMs)
Assigning the AI a specific persona—such as "Act as a senior cybersecurity analyst"—uses this core prompt component.
What is System Prompt (or Role / Persona Assignment)?
In 1950, this brilliant mathematician proposed a famous test of machine intelligence originally called "The Imitation Game."
Who is Alan Turing?
Named after a thermal physics concept, this parameter in LLMs controls the randomness and creativity of generated text output.
What is Temperature?
Autonomous driving companies like Waymo rely heavily on this remote sensing tech that uses light pulses to measure distances—a staple of sci-fi tech.
What is LiDAR?
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Who is Human? (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
This malicious technique involves crafting input text designed to bypass an AI's safety guardrails or system instructions.
What is Jailbreaking (or Prompt Injection)?