Tech Quiz

What was the first documented "computer bug", and where was it discovered?

• A malfunctioning vacuum tube in the ENIAC computer

• A termite infestation that ruined punch cards for the IBM 029

• A moth in the Harvard Mark II

• A spiderweb causing a short circuit in the Colossus machine

Which Indian app, set up less than 5 years ago had to close shop last month after a failed takeover and the non-availability of funds to continue operations?

• ShareChat

• Koo App

• Hike Messenger

• Dailyhunt

OpenAI has initiated "Project Strawberry" to improve the capabilities of their existing AI products, like ChatGPT. What is the intended improvement that Strawberry will bring about?

• Introducing a notion of commonsense

• Learning dynamically from user interactions

• A better "moral compass" and ethics

• Understanding the meaning of ambiguity in user queries

CNBC releases a yearly list called the "Disruptor 50", which lists companies that have majorly changed trends in many areas of business. At #6, we have a graphic designing tool, a field that was dominated by Photoshop for well over a decade. Which is this tool?

• Figma

• GIMP

• Inkscape

• Canva

Stripe, an online payment platform, recently touched a monumental landmark, when it announced that the total amount of payments on the platform is close to 33% of the entire India's GDP, touching this figure in less than half the time PayPal (the leading transaction platform) did. How much is this figure, approximately?

• $500 billion

• $2 trillion

• $1 trillion

• $3 trillion

When IBM Watson was initially being developed in 2013, its creators thought that the best way of teaching it the natural style/slang of human conversation online, was to feed it data from X. However, the IBM Watson started cussing instead, and they had to delete its data to fix it. What is X?

• The r/TodayILearned subreddit from Reddit

• UrbanDictionary

• Tweets about the 2012 US elections

• YouTube comments from PewDiePie videos

On July 2023 ____ announced ____, an open source LLM. They recently released version 3.1 which compares well against proprietary models.

• Openai, ChatGPT

• Meta, LLama

• Microsoft ,Phi

• Google ,Gemini

In the early 20th century, this printing company was kickstarted by 2 men in a garage in Palo Alto, California. The company was named after them and is one of the most successful ones in the software industry. The two men were:

• Larry page, Sergey Brin

• Steve jobs, Steve Wozniak

• Bill Hewlett, David Packard

• Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin

Which viral AI-generated video, originally popularized and heavily memed in 2023 for its surreal and humorous depiction of a celebrity engaging in an ordinary activity, was later regenerated to showcase advancements in AI technology, though the new version didn't achieve the same level of viral success?

• Tom Cruise cooking pancakes

• Will Smith eating spaghetti

• Keanu Reeves playing chess

• Elon Musk driving a taxi

Inspired by folklore, a cyberattack involved malware that disguised itself as a legitimate software. This tactic allowed the malicious software to bypass security measures and give attackers unauthorized access to the target's system. What term describes this type of?

• Phishing

• Apollo attack

• Trojan Horse

• Spyware