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

    <p>To predict our future desires based on past data</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>A senior fellow and de facto head of Google Brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>The evolution of ideas about technology and consciousness</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

    <p>It cannot reduce words to their dictionary definitions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

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

    <p>An A.I.-based system</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Total gains equal to the old system's lifetime</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Interpreting implicit demands and being a general tool</p> 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?

    <p>The missing article on the leopard</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

    What did Sadiq Khan compare himself to Google for?

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

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

    <p>Dean, Corrado and Ng</p> 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?

    <p>Best quality improvements in 20 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Geoffrey Hinton</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Geoffrey Hinton and his students</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Geoffrey Hinton</p> Signup and view all the answers

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