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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations
> 1. 2008, from "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup.
Slumdog Millionaire
> 2. 1986, from "The Body" by Stephen King.
Stand By Me
> 3. 1964, from "Red Alert" by Peter George.
Dr. Strangelove
> 4. 1990, from "Wiseguy" by Nicolas Pileggi.
Goodfellas
> 6. 1979, from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
Apocalypse Now
> 7. 1968, from "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.
Charly
> 9. 1982, from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.
Blade Runner
> 10. 1990, from "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
Total Recall
> * Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Artificial Intelligence
> 1. This company is the dominant supplier of AI and graphics
> processing hardware and software. Based on this dominance,
> its stock price has skyrocketed. As of last Friday, it had a
> market capitalization of $4.1 trillion Canadian placing it at #3
> globally ... just behind Apple and Microsoft. Name the company?
NVIDIA
> 2. In 2015, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others founded this
> artificial intelligence company as a non-profit. Elon Musk
> left the company in 2018. In November 2022, this company
> introduced ChatGPT. What is the name of this company?
OpenAI
> 3. One of the first natural-language programs or chatbots was
> developed between 1964 and 1967 by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT.
> What was the name of this early chatbot? *Hint*: The name
> was taken from the female protagonist of a classic play that
> premiered in 1913 and is still staged today.
Eliza
> 4. Please decode the rot13 for the next two questions only after
> you have finished with the ones above. BcraNV unf PungTCG.
> Anzr rvgure bs gur pungobgf vagebqhprq ol Tbbtyr be Zvpebfbsg.
> Lbh qba'g unir gb vqragvsl juvpu pungobg vf nffbpvngrq jvgu
> juvpu pbzcnal. Whfg anzr bar bs gur gjb.
Copilot
> 6. This mathematician created a test in 1950 to evaluate if
> a machine could imitate being a human. In this test, a human
> interrogator asks questions of a machine and a human. If the
> human interrogator is not able to tell the difference, then
> the machine is considered to have passed the test. Who is
> this mathematician? *Hint*: His life was dramatized in the
> 2014 movie "The Imitation Game"
Turing
> 7. In February 2011, this IBM computer defeated
> "Jeopardy!" champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings in a
> competition. What is the name of this computer?
Watson
> 8. In May 1997, this IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov (the reigning
> world chess champion at the time) in a 6-game match. What is
> the name of *this* computer?
Deep Blue
> 9. This academic is also an author, futurist, and inventor.
> He invented the first text to speech machine and is responsible
> for a language support program widely used in public schools
> (particularly in Special Education departments). In addition,
> he created one of the world's best music synthesizers. He is
> probably best known for the 2005 book The Singularity is Near:
> When Humans Transcend Biology. In this and other texts, he
> speaks to the singular event being the point in time where AI
> exceeds human intelligence. Name him.
Kurzweil
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