Science
Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive Quiz
From Turing to transformers — test your knowledge of AI's past, present, and future
From Turing to transformers — test your knowledge of AI's past, present, and future
Artificial intelligence as a field traces back to the 1956 Dartmouth Conference — where the term 'artificial intelligence' was coined — through AI winters, Deep Blue's 1997 chess victory, AlexNet's 2012 breakthrough, AlphaGo's 2016 triumph over Lee Sedol, the 2017 transformer paper, and ChatGPT's explosive 2022 launch. This quiz covers the researchers, architectures, and milestones that shaped modern AI.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from a pool of 50, with four multiple-choice options and instant feedback after every answer. Your final score comes with a performance tier and shareable results.
You'll cover the Turing Test, the Dartmouth workshop, AI winters, Deep Blue and Watson, AlexNet and ImageNet, AlphaGo and AlphaFold, the transformer architecture, GPT-3 and ChatGPT, image-generation models, the Godfathers of AI, and recent regulation like the EU AI Act.
The field was formally founded at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon — where the term 'artificial intelligence' was coined.
The transformer, introduced in the 2017 Google paper 'Attention Is All You Need' by Vaswani et al., is a neural-network architecture built around self-attention. It underpins modern large language models including GPT, BERT, and Claude.
Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio are often called the 'Godfathers of Deep Learning' or 'Godfathers of AI.' They jointly won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work on deep neural networks.
Last updated: April 2026