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DM168 Quiz: Artificial Intelligence

"Load shedding" is a peculiarly South African euphemism, coined by Eskom. What's a term used for it in other countries?

In what year did the first wave of load shedding begin?

Which minister told Parliament in 2022 that sabotage, theft and corruption had made the electricity crisis worse?

Late last year, Daily Maverick reported that certain lucky South Africans were "making hay while the lights don't shine". Who are they?

At the height of the Cape Town water crisis from mid-2017 to mid-2018 water levels hovered between 14% and 29% of total dam capacity. 

In March 2018 the City of Cape Town implemented water restrictions and succeeded in reducing its daily water usage by more than half to about:


“Day Zero” referred to the day when the water level of the major dams supplying the City of Cape Town would fall below 13.5 percent. 

A test for intelligence in a computer to evaluate the memory capacity of a computer

A test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both

A test for intelligence in a computer to measure the artificial general intelligence of a computer

How many litres of water were allowed per person under Level 6 water restrictions, which came into effect in Cape Town on 1 January 2018?

The 2017 to 2018 drought was declared Cape Town’s worst in a century.

It is estimated that 10 million litres of treated, clean, drinkable water is lost daily as a result of the thousands of leaks in South Africa’s water piping system.

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DM168 Quiz: Artificial Intelligence

1. Who quit Google on 1 May so that he could sound a warning about the way technology was going, saying he was concerned about the “existential risk of what happens when these things get more intelligent than us”?