AI in 2021
42 answers from 2021.
- Who founded DeepMind in 2010, and what were they trying to build? History of AI
- What is OpenAI's CLIP, and how does it recognize images from words? OpenAI tracker
- What is DALL·E, and how does it draw pictures from a sentence? OpenAI tracker
- How did IBM's Watson beat the best human players at Jeopardy!? History of AI
- What was Siri when it launched on the iPhone 4S, and why did it matter? History of AI
- What is a large language model, and why does size matter? History of AI
- What was AlexNet, and why did its 2012 ImageNet win change AI? History of AI
- How did Google's neural network learn to recognize cats on its own in 2012? History of AI
- How does self-attention work, step by step? History of AI
- Does a language model actually understand what it writes? History of AI
- What is word2vec, and how did it teach computers the meaning of words? History of AI
- How did DeepMind's deep Q-network learn to play Atari games from the pixels alone? History of AI
- Why did Google buy DeepMind in 2014, and how much did it pay? History of AI
- What is the EU's proposed AI Act? Society and work
- Did the chatbot Eugene Goostman really pass the Turing test in 2014? History of AI
- How do you get GPT-3 to follow a format every time? Prompting
- What is Google's LaMDA, and how is it different from other chatbots? Models and labs
- What are generative adversarial networks (GANs), and how do two networks learn by competing? History of AI
- What is no-code automation, and how do Zapier and Integromat work? Build with AI
- What was the 2014 attention mechanism, and how did it change machine translation? History of AI
- What is sequence-to-sequence learning, and why was the 2014 paper so important? History of AI
- What is GitHub Copilot? AI tools
- What does OpenAI's Codex paper reveal about AI that writes code? OpenAI tracker
- What was the Amazon Echo, and how does Alexa understand what you say? History of AI
- Will AI that writes code replace programmers? Society and work
- What is TensorFlow, and why did Google give it away in 2015? History of AI
- What is OpenAI Codex, and can it really write code? Build with AI
- What is a residual network (ResNet), and why did it let neural networks get so deep? History of AI
- How do you use GitHub Copilot well? AI tools
- When was OpenAI founded, by whom, and what did it set out to do? OpenAI tracker
- How did AlphaGo become the first program to beat a professional Go player? History of AI
- How do you turn a plain-English request into working code with Codex? Build with AI
- What happened when AlphaGo played Lee Sedol, and why did the match matter? History of AI
- What is Québec's Law 25, and what does it mean for AI tools? Society and work
- Should teachers worry about students using AI text generators? Society and work
- What happened to Microsoft's Tay chatbot, and why was it shut down in a day? History of AI
- What is DeepMind's WaveNet, and how did it make computer voices sound human? History of AI
- What was Google Neural Machine Translation, and how did it change Google Translate? History of AI
- Can anyone use GPT-3 now that OpenAI has removed its API waitlist? OpenAI tracker
- What was GPT-1, and what did "generative pre-training" change? OpenAI tracker
- What is BERT, and why did it change how computers understand language? History of AI
- How does fine-tuning GPT-3 work? Build with AI