RR: The Great A.I. Awakening. Lecture 1

What did Jun Rekimoto notice about Google Translate one Friday night?

It had stopped working

It had crashed

It had become less accurate

It had suddenly improved almost immeasurably (correct)

How did Jun Rekimoto describe Haruki Murakami's translation of 'The Great Gatsby'?

In very polished Japanese (correct)

In old-fashioned Japanese

In colloquial Japanese

In rough Japanese

What did Rekimoto write up his initial findings in?

A social media post

A blog post (correct)

A newspaper article

A research paper

What is the goal of the A.I.-enhanced assistants mentioned in the text?

To predict our future desires based on past data Signup and view all the answers

Who is Jeff Dean and what role does he play at Google?

A senior fellow and de facto head of Google Brain Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of the three overlapping stories mentioned in the text?

The evolution of ideas about technology and consciousness Signup and view all the answers

What is the main difference between the traditional approach to artificial intelligence and the dissenting view?

The traditional approach involves mimicking the brain's structure, while the dissenting view involves creating a comprehensive program. Signup and view all the answers

Why does the traditional approach to artificial intelligence fail horribly in the field of translation?

It cannot reduce words to their dictionary definitions. Signup and view all the answers

Why did researchers consider the brain as the best model for flexible automated intelligence in the early 1940s?

Because it is just a bunch of widgets called neurons. Signup and view all the answers

What has Google Translate recently converted to for much of its traffic?

An A.I.-based system Signup and view all the answers

What has been the impact of the new A.I. system on Google Translate?

Total gains equal to the old system's lifetime Signup and view all the answers

What is the ultimate goal of 'artificial general intelligence,' as mentioned in the text?

Interpreting implicit demands and being a general tool Signup and view all the answers

What was the main giveaway that the second translation of Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' was the work of a machine?

The missing article on the leopard Signup and view all the answers

What did Rekimoto do in his post regarding the translation service from Japanese to English?

He invited his readers to guess which translation was done by a machine Signup and view all the answers

What did Sadiq Khan compare himself to Google for?

Because he is always trying to finish people's sentences Signup and view all the answers

Who pioneered the idea that humans don't learn language by memorizing dictionaries and grammar books?

Dean, Corrado and Ng Signup and view all the answers

What did the speech-recognition team at Google Brain encounter when they swapped out part of their old system for a neural network?

Best quality improvements in 20 years Signup and view all the answers

Who was recruited to Google Brain as an intern after Andrew Ng left?

Geoffrey Hinton Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated astonishing gains in a big image-recognition contest run by ImageNet?

Geoffrey Hinton and his students Signup and view all the answers

Who comes from a family with a long history of making contributions to various intellectual fields?