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AI Quiz · AI Soundboard at Because HQ

Ten quick ones to open the evening. Answer by a show of hands, then we reveal.

Tap or Space to start · the group answers by picking a side

Question 1 of 10

What does the "GPT" in ChatGPT actually stand for?

  • A General Purpose Technology
  • B Generative Pre-trained Transformer
  • C Global Prediction Tool
  • D Guided Processing Terminal

Generative Pre-trained Transformer. The "transformer" is the architecture underneath almost every modern model.

Question 2 of 10

The 2017 paper that kicked off the modern AI boom was titled "Attention Is All You Need." Whose researchers wrote it?

  • A OpenAI
  • B Google
  • C Meta
  • D Microsoft

Google. That paper introduced the transformer, the design nearly every model since has been built on.

Question 3 of 10

In AI, what is a "hallucination"?

  • A When the model crashes
  • B An image filter
  • C When the model states false information with full confidence
  • D When it runs out of memory

Confidently wrong. It's why you always check the important stuff a model tells you.

Question 4 of 10

Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies on earth mainly by selling...

  • A Smartphones
  • B GPUs and AI chips
  • C Electric cars
  • D Social apps

GPUs. The chips that train and run AI models, the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush.

Question 5 of 10

What does "RAG" stand for in AI apps?

  • A Rapid AI Generation
  • B Random Access Grid
  • C Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • D Recurrent Adaptive Gateway

Retrieval-Augmented Generation. The model looks things up in your data first, then answers.

Question 6 of 10

One of these is NOT an AI model. Which one?

  • A Claude
  • B Gemini
  • C Llama
  • D Falcon 9

Falcon 9 is a SpaceX rocket. The other three are all AI models.

Question 7 of 10

A "token" in a large language model is roughly...

  • A A crypto coin
  • B A chunk of text, about a word or part of one
  • C A GPU
  • D A password

A chunk of text. Models read and price by the token, not by the word.

Question 8 of 10

Who proposed the famous "Turing Test" for machine intelligence?

  • A Alan Turing
  • B John von Neumann
  • C Geoffrey Hinton
  • D Ada Lovelace

Alan Turing, back in 1950. Can a machine hold a conversation you can't tell from a human's?

Question 9 of 10

"Prompt engineering" means...

  • A Building robots
  • B Designing chips
  • C Crafting inputs to get better outputs from AI
  • D Writing Python

Crafting the input. How you ask changes what you get.

Question 10 of 10

What was the name of one of the earliest chatbots, built at MIT back in 1966?

  • A SIRI
  • B ELIZA
  • C HAL
  • D WATSON

ELIZA. It imitated a therapist, and people were hooked, nearly 60 years before ChatGPT.