History interview questions
The people, papers and moments that built the field, from the perceptron to the Transformer.
35 questions in this category.
- Who is knows as the creator of the GANs architecture?
- Ian Goodfellow.
- The least squares method was published by a famous french mathematician called.
- Adrien-Marie Legendre.
- In 1812 Laplace published "Théorie Analytique des Probabilités" in which he defines a famous theorem. Which theorem was it?
- Bayes' Theorem.
- Who invented the perceptron?
- Frank Rosenblatt. Bonus. The invention of the perceptron generated a great deal of excitement and was widely covered in the media.
- In 1970 Seppo Linnainmaa published the general method for automatic differentiation. This corresponds to the modern version of:
- Backpropagation.
- In 1995 Corinna Cortes and Vladimir Vapnik publish their work explaining a new supervised learning algorithm called:
- Support Vector Machines
- What was the name of the first computer that beat against the the world champion at chess?
- Deep Blue.
- Who invented the LSTM architecture in deep learning?
- Sepp Hochreiter and Jürgen Schmidhuber in 1997.
- Which computer scientists received the Turing Award for their contributions in deep learning?
- Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun.
- How coined the term deep learning in 2006?
- Geoffrey Hinton.
- How is the creator of Keras?
- François Chollet.
- Who are credited by the creation of R?
- Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman.
- Who are known as the "Good Parents of AI"?
- Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio.
- Was Bayes's Theorem published after his death?
- Yes. The underpinnings of Bayes' Theorem was published 2 years after his death (1763) and was until 1812 that Laplace published it as we know it today. 49 years later!
- What was the final score of the 2016 match between Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo and Go grandmaster Lee Sedol?
- 4-1 (AlphaGo - Sedol).