From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Entertainment - Film Adaptations   
   >   
      
   > * 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?   
      
   Open AI   
      
   > 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"   
      
   Alan 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?   
      
   Deep Throat   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Moog; Fairlight   
      
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