AI in 2020
41 answers from 2020.
- What is Isaac Asimov's I, Robot about, and why does it matter for AI? History of AI
- What was Japan's Fifth Generation computer project, and why did it worry the rest of the world? History of AI
- What was SNARC, the 1951 machine often called the first neural network? History of AI
- What was Christopher Strachey's draughts program, one of the first game-playing programs? History of AI
- What is a Hopfield network, and how can a network of simple units remember things? History of AI
- What was the Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of machine translation? History of AI
- What is Blade Runner about, and why do people bring it up when they talk about AI? History of AI
- What is a language model, in plain words? History of AI
- What is the Cyc project, and can you really teach a computer common sense by hand? History of AI
- What is William Gibson's Neuromancer about, and what does it say about artificial intelligence? History of AI
- What is machine learning, and how is it different from ordinary programming? History of AI
- What is The Terminator about, and why is Skynet the picture everyone has of dangerous AI? History of AI
- What is backpropagation, and why did a 1986 Nature paper about it matter so much? History of AI
- What is a neural network, and what are its weights? History of AI
- What was the second AI winter, and why did the 1980s AI boom collapse? History of AI
- What is OpenAI's Jukebox, and how can an AI sing? OpenAI tracker
- What is Jabberwacky, and how did a chatbot learn to talk from its users? History of AI
- How did Yann LeCun's team teach a neural network to read handwritten ZIP codes in 1989? History of AI
- What is GPT-3, and why are researchers so excited about it? OpenAI tracker
- What is the OpenAI API, and who can use it? Build with AI
- What happened at the first Loebner Prize, the first real Turing test contest? History of AI
- How did TD-Gammon teach itself to play backgammon at a master's level? History of AI
- What are support vector machines, and why did they matter so much? History of AI
- What are tokens, and why do language models read text in pieces? Models and labs
- What was A.L.I.C.E., and how did a chatbot built from simple rules win the Loebner Prize? History of AI
- How do you write a good prompt for GPT-3? Prompting
- How did IBM's Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997? History of AI
- What is few-shot prompting? Prompting
- What is long short-term memory (LSTM), and how does it help neural networks remember? History of AI
- What do temperature and top-p do in GPT-3? Prompting
- What are LeNet-5 and the MNIST dataset, and why does every deep learning course start with them? History of AI
- Why does GPT-3 make things up? Society and work
- What was Honda's ASIMO, and why did a walking robot matter so much? History of AI
- How do you read AI-generated text critically? Society and work
- Where does bias in GPT-3 come from? Society and work
- How did the Roomba become the first robot most people let into their homes? History of AI
- What happened at the first DARPA Grand Challenge, when no robot car finished? History of AI
- How did Stanford's robot car Stanley win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge? History of AI
- What can you build with the GPT-3 API? Build with AI
- What were Hinton's deep belief networks, and how did they restart deep learning? History of AI
- What is ImageNet, and why did a collection of labelled photos change AI? History of AI