AI in 2019
72 answers from 2019.
- Who was Talos, the bronze giant of Greek myth? History of AI
- What was the Logic Theorist, often called the first AI program? History of AI
- What is the story of Pygmalion, the sculptor whose statue came to life? History of AI
- What actually happened at the 1956 Dartmouth workshop on artificial intelligence? History of AI
- Who was Hero of Alexandria, and what machines did he describe? History of AI
- Who was al-Jazari, and what was his Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices? History of AI
- What was the General Problem Solver, and how did it try to solve any problem? History of AI
- What is GPT-2, and why isn't OpenAI releasing it in full? OpenAI tracker
- What was Ramon Llull's Ars Magna, and why is it linked to computing? History of AI
- What was Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron, and how did it learn? History of AI
- Did Leonardo da Vinci really design a robot knight? History of AI
- Where did the idea of artificial intelligence come from? History of AI
- What is the golem of Prague, and where does the legend come from? History of AI
- What is Lisp, and why did John McCarthy create it for artificial intelligence? History of AI
- What is OpenAI LP, and what does "capped-profit" mean? OpenAI tracker
- Did Descartes think machines could ever think? History of AI
- What is the Turing test, and does it still matter? History of AI
- What did Thomas Hobbes mean when he said reasoning is reckoning? History of AI
- How did John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky start the MIT Artificial Intelligence Project? History of AI
- What was Leibniz's dream of a calculus of reasoning? History of AI
- Who coined the term 'artificial intelligence'? History of AI
- How did Arthur Samuel's checkers program learn, and where does the term "machine learning" come from? History of AI
- What was the word-making Engine in Gulliver's Travels? History of AI
- What is OpenAI's MuseNet, and how does an AI compose music? OpenAI tracker
- What was Vaucanson's Digesting Duck, and did it really digest? History of AI
- What was Unimate, the first industrial robot, and how did it work? History of AI
- What were ELIZA and the first expert systems? History of AI
- What are the Jaquet-Droz automata, and why are they called early computers? History of AI
- What was DENDRAL, and why is it called the first expert system? History of AI
- What was the Mechanical Turk, the chess machine with a person inside? History of AI
- What is E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'The Sandman', and why do AI people still read it? History of AI
- What was Shakey the robot, and what did it teach AI? History of AI
- What is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein really about, and why does it come up in AI debates? History of AI
- What is a Transformer, and why does 'attention' matter? History of AI
- What was the ALPAC report, and why did it stop machine translation research in the US? History of AI
- What was Charles Babbage's Difference Engine? History of AI
- What was Babbage's Analytical Engine? History of AI
- What is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? about, and why does it matter for AI? History of AI
- What did Ada Lovelace write about the Analytical Engine? History of AI
- How did George Boole turn logic into algebra? History of AI
- Who is HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and why does it still shape how we see AI? History of AI
- Why is Microsoft investing $1 billion in OpenAI, and what does each side get? OpenAI tracker
- What did Samuel Butler argue in 'Darwin among the Machines'? History of AI
- What did Minsky and Papert's book Perceptrons prove, and did it really stall neural networks? History of AI
- Why does Samuel Butler's Erewhon ban machines? History of AI
- Where does the word 'android' come from? History of AI
- What is the frame problem in AI, and why did McCarthy and Hayes call it a problem? History of AI
- Why did OpenAI release a bigger GPT-2 model, and what can it do? OpenAI tracker
- What did E. M. Forster imagine in 'The Machine Stops'? History of AI
- What was SHRDLU, the program that talked about blocks? History of AI
- What was El Ajedrecista, the first machine that played chess on its own? History of AI
- Where does the word 'robot' come from? History of AI
- What is Prolog, and why did AI researchers build a language out of logic? History of AI
- What is the robot in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and why is it so famous? History of AI
- What did Alan Turing's 1936 paper 'On Computable Numbers' discover? History of AI
- What was PARRY, the 1972 chatbot that played a paranoid patient? History of AI
- What are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, and where do they come from? History of AI
- What was MYCIN, and how did a 1970s program choose antibiotics as well as specialists? History of AI
- What was the McCulloch-Pitts neuron, the first model of a neural network? History of AI
- How is Google using BERT to understand your searches? Models and labs
- What was ENIAC, and why was its unveiling in 1946 such big news? History of AI
- What was the Lighthill report, and why did it hit British AI research so hard? History of AI
- OpenAI released the full GPT-2: what changed? OpenAI tracker
- What is cybernetics, and what did Norbert Wiener's 1948 book say? History of AI
- What was the first AI winter, and why did the money for AI dry up in the 1970s? History of AI
- What did Alan Turing propose in his 1948 report 'Intelligent Machinery'? History of AI
- What did Donald Hebb's 1949 book say about how the brain learns? History of AI
- What was XCON, the expert system that configured computers for Digital Equipment Corporation? History of AI
- What is AI Dungeon 2, and how does it use GPT-2? AI tools
- What were Grey Walter's robot tortoises, and why do they matter? History of AI
- What is John Searle's Chinese room argument, and does it show computers can't understand? History of AI
- How did Claude Shannon propose that a computer could play chess? History of AI