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AI Quiz · eChai AI Cafe Ahmedabad

Last person standing. Everyone stands up, miss a question and you sit down, the last founder still standing wins. AI, startups, and pop culture. We warm up, then it ramps fast. Answer, then we reveal the green one.

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Question 1 of 24

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

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

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

Question 2 of 24

Which company built ChatGPT?

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

OpenAI. Microsoft is the big backer, but the model is OpenAI's.

Question 3 of 24

A private startup valued at over one billion dollars is called a...

  • A Whale
  • B Unicorn
  • C Dragon
  • D Rocketship

A unicorn. Rare enough in the early days to need a mythical name. India has minted a hundred plus of them.

Question 4 of 24

HBO's cult comedy "Silicon Valley" follows a startup building magical compression tech. The company is called...

  • A Hooli
  • B Pied Piper
  • C Aviato
  • D Raviga

Pied Piper. Hooli is the evil giant, Aviato was Erlich's old company, Raviga is the VC firm.

Question 5 of 24

Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as...

  • A Tweet
  • B X
  • C Chirp
  • D Musknet

X. The everything-app dream. Everyone still calls it Twitter.

Question 6 of 24

ChatGPT hit 100 million users faster than any consumer app before it. Roughly how long did it take?

  • A Two years
  • B Nine months
  • C About two months
  • D One week

About two months. The fastest a consumer product had ever reached that scale at the time.

Question 7 of 24

Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies on earth in the AI boom, 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 8 of 24

Which brand does Shark Tank India shark Aman Gupta co-own?

  • A Lenskart
  • B boAt
  • C SUGAR Cosmetics
  • D Emcure

boAt. The audio brand that put affordable earphones on half the country.

Question 9 of 24

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." This chilling AI, HAL 9000, is from which film?

  • A Blade Runner
  • B 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • C Interstellar
  • D Alien

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Cinema's original creepy AI, decades before ChatGPT.

Question 10 of 24

Skynet, the AI that becomes self-aware and turns on humanity, is from which movie franchise?

  • A The Matrix
  • B The Terminator
  • C RoboCop
  • D I, Robot

The Terminator. Skynet going live is still the go-to joke every time a new model ships.

Question 11 of 24

Shark Tank India shark Peyush Bansal is the founder and CEO of...

  • A CRED
  • B Lenskart
  • C BharatPe
  • D Shaadi.com

Lenskart. The eyewear giant that went from a website to thousands of stores.

Question 12 of 24

In the 2013 film "Her," Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with an AI voiced by Scarlett Johansson. What is the AI's name?

  • A Ava
  • B Samantha
  • C Cortana
  • D Joi

Samantha. When OpenAI demoed a flirty voice assistant in 2024, everyone said "that's Her."

Question 13 of 24

In "The Social Network," who says "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars"?

  • A Mark Zuckerberg
  • B Sean Parker
  • C Eduardo Saverin
  • D A Winklevoss twin

Sean Parker, the Napster founder, played by Justin Timberlake. One of the great startup movie lines.

Question 14 of 24

Which IBM computer beat human champions on the quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011?

  • A Deep Blue
  • B Watson
  • C Deep Thought
  • D Big Blue

Watson. Deep Blue was the chess one. Different machine, different game.

Question 15 of 24

"Doglapan," the viral meme phrase and a bestselling book, belongs to which controversial founder?

  • A Kunal Shah
  • B Ashneer Grover
  • C Vijay Shekhar Sharma
  • D Bhavish Aggarwal

Ashneer Grover of BharatPe. "Doglapan" means two-facedness, and it became his whole brand.

Question 16 of 24

The 2016 film "The Founder," starring Michael Keaton, tells the ruthless startup story of which company?

  • A Starbucks
  • B McDonald's
  • C Coca-Cola
  • D KFC

McDonald's. Ray Kroc did not start it, he scaled it, and that is the whole uncomfortable point of the film.

Question 17 of 24

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was famous for copying which tech icon's signature black-turtleneck look?

  • A Elon Musk
  • B Steve Jobs
  • C Bill Gates
  • D Jeff Bezos

Steve Jobs. She modelled herself on him right down to the wardrobe. It ended in a fraud conviction.

Question 18 of 24

Which AI system defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol in 2016, a milestone many thought was a decade away?

  • A Deep Blue
  • B Watson
  • C AlphaGo
  • D GPT-2

AlphaGo, from DeepMind. Go has more board positions than atoms in the universe, so brute force was never going to cut it.

Question 19 of 24

Jared Leto played which disgraced startup founder in the series "WeCrashed"?

  • A Travis Kalanick
  • B Adam Neumann
  • C Sam Bankman-Fried
  • D Trevor Milton

Adam Neumann of WeWork. A 47 billion dollar valuation to near-collapse, in one wild ride.

Question 20 of 24

CRED's viral ad campaign cast which cricket legend as the raging "Indiranagar ka Gunda"?

  • A Sachin Tendulkar
  • B MS Dhoni
  • C Rahul Dravid
  • D Virender Sehwag

Rahul Dravid. "Mr. Nice Guy" losing it in traffic broke the internet. Peak startup marketing.

Question 21 of 24

In the film "Ex Machina," what is the name of the humanlike AI robot at the centre of the story?

  • A Ava
  • B Eva
  • C Sophia
  • D Ada

Ava. The film is basically a two-hour Turing Test with a twist ending.

Question 22 of 24

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, was founded by former employees of which company?

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

OpenAI. A group left to build an AI company focused on safety, and Claude is the result.

Question 23 of 24

The term "artificial intelligence" was coined at a famous 1956 summer workshop held at which university?

  • A MIT
  • B Stanford
  • C Dartmouth
  • D Carnegie Mellon

Dartmouth. The 1956 workshop is treated as the official birth of the field. It has been about seventy years.

Question 24 of 24

Which company was the first to ever reach a one trillion dollar market capitalisation, back in 2018?

  • A Microsoft
  • B Amazon
  • C Apple
  • D Saudi Aramco

Apple. The first to a trillion. These days the AI names blow past that on the way up.