AI in 2021

44 answers from 2021.

  1. Who founded DeepMind in 2010, and what were they trying to build? History of AI
  2. What is OpenAI's CLIP, and how does it recognize images from words? OpenAI tracker
  3. What is DALL·E, and how does it draw pictures from a sentence? OpenAI tracker
  4. How did IBM's Watson beat the best human players at Jeopardy!? History of AI
  5. What was Siri when it launched on the iPhone 4S, and why did it matter? History of AI
  6. What is a large language model, and why does size matter? History of AI
  7. What was AlexNet, and why did its 2012 ImageNet win change AI? History of AI
  8. How did Google's neural network learn to recognize cats on its own in 2012? History of AI
  9. How does self-attention work, step by step? History of AI
  10. Does a language model actually understand what it writes? History of AI
  11. What is word2vec, and how did it teach computers the meaning of words? History of AI
  12. How did DeepMind's deep Q-network learn to play Atari games from the pixels alone? History of AI
  13. Why did Google buy DeepMind in 2014, and how much did it pay? History of AI
  14. What is the EU's proposed AI Act? Society and work
  15. Why did Brewster Kahle found the Internet Archive in 1996? History of AI
  16. Did the chatbot Eugene Goostman really pass the Turing test in 2014? History of AI
  17. How do you get GPT-3 to follow a format every time? Prompting
  18. What is Google's LaMDA, and how is it different from other chatbots? Models and labs
  19. What are generative adversarial networks (GANs), and how do two networks learn by competing? History of AI
  20. What is no-code automation, and how do Zapier and Integromat work? Build with AI
  21. What was the 2014 attention mechanism, and how did it change machine translation? History of AI
  22. What is sequence-to-sequence learning, and why was the 2014 paper so important? History of AI
  23. What is GitHub Copilot? AI tools
  24. What does OpenAI's Codex paper reveal about AI that writes code? OpenAI tracker
  25. What was the Amazon Echo, and how does Alexa understand what you say? History of AI
  26. Will AI that writes code replace programmers? Society and work
  27. What is TensorFlow, and why did Google give it away in 2015? History of AI
  28. What is OpenAI Codex, and can it really write code? Build with AI
  29. What is a residual network (ResNet), and why did it let neural networks get so deep? History of AI
  30. How do you use GitHub Copilot well? AI tools
  31. When was OpenAI founded, by whom, and what did it set out to do? OpenAI tracker
  32. How did AlphaGo become the first program to beat a professional Go player? History of AI
  33. How do you turn a plain-English request into working code with Codex? Build with AI
  34. What happened when AlphaGo played Lee Sedol, and why did the match matter? History of AI
  35. What is Québec's Law 25, and what does it mean for AI tools? Society and work
  36. Should teachers worry about students using AI text generators? Society and work
  37. What happened to Microsoft's Tay chatbot, and why was it shut down in a day? History of AI
  38. What is the Wayback Machine, and how can it help you check a source? History of AI
  39. What is DeepMind's WaveNet, and how did it make computer voices sound human? History of AI
  40. What was Google Neural Machine Translation, and how did it change Google Translate? History of AI
  41. Can anyone use GPT-3 now that OpenAI has removed its API waitlist? OpenAI tracker
  42. What was GPT-1, and what did "generative pre-training" change? OpenAI tracker
  43. What is BERT, and why did it change how computers understand language? History of AI
  44. How does fine-tuning GPT-3 work? Build with AI

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