You do not need to be a historian to use AI. But knowing how we got here helps you separate genuine breakthroughs from recycled hype. Here is 75 years in one lesson.
Question 1 of 3
What three developments converged to make modern AI possible? A. Social media, smartphones, and cloud storageB. Cheaper computing power (GPUs), abundant training data (the internet), and the transformer architecture (2017)C. Quantum computing, 5G networks, and blockchainD. Government funding, university research, and open-source software
Question 2 of 3
What caused the two AI Winters? A. Scientists lost interest in the field and moved onB. Bold promises attracted massive funding, the technology failed to deliver on those promises, and disillusionment led to budget cutsC. Governments banned AI research for safety reasonsD. Computing hardware was destroyed in natural disasters
Question 3 of 3
Why is the 2017 transformer architecture considered the most important AI breakthrough of the decade? A. It was the first neural network ever builtB. It let models process all words simultaneously using self-attention, enabling them to understand context across long documentsC. It made AI completely free for everyone to useD. It eliminated all errors and hallucinations from AI output