Unit 1: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Practice Quiz

1 What is intelligence generally understood to be?

2 Which activity is commonly associated with intelligence?

3 What does learning mean in the context of intelligence?

4 Which ability helps an intelligent system respond to changes in its environment?

5 Which of the following is an example of human intelligence?

6 What is weak AI designed to do?

7 Which is another name for weak AI?

8 What is strong AI intended to achieve?

9 Which statement about today's common AI systems is correct?

10 A voice assistant that answers questions and sets reminders is usually classified as what type of AI?

11 Who is often called the father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence?

12 What did the Turing Test propose evaluating?

13 At which 1956 event was the term artificial intelligence introduced?

14 What was an early goal of artificial intelligence research?

15 What is an AI winter?

16 Which development has strongly supported recent progress in AI?

17 Which application commonly uses AI to identify objects in photographs?

18 Which AI application is commonly used by online stores?

19 What type of AI application can help banks identify unusual transactions?

20 Which technology uses AI to convert spoken words into written text?

21 A navigation system changes its route after detecting an unexpected road closure. Which aspect of intelligence is most clearly demonstrated?

22 Why is the ability to generalize important for an intelligent system?

23 A program wins a chess game by evaluating possible moves but cannot explain everyday objects or understand spoken language. What does this example suggest about intelligence?

24 Which situation best demonstrates reasoning rather than simple memorization?

25 A robot correctly identifies a cup in bright light but fails when the same cup is partly hidden. Which capability would most improve its intelligence in this situation?

26 A customer-service chatbot answers questions about product returns but cannot perform unrelated tasks. How should it be classified?

27 Which statement best describes the intended meaning of strong AI?

28 A medical image system detects lung abnormalities accurately but cannot diagnose unrelated conditions or hold a general conversation. What conclusion is most appropriate?

29 Which capability would provide the strongest evidence that a system is approaching strong AI rather than remaining weak AI?

30 Why can a voice assistant appear intelligent without necessarily being strong AI?

31 Why is the 1950 Dartmouth workshop commonly associated with the beginning of AI as a formal field?

32 What was a major characteristic of early symbolic AI systems?

33 Expert systems became popular because they could provide useful decisions in limited domains. What was a common limitation of these systems?

34 What factor most directly contributed to the recent growth of machine-learning applications?

35 AI winters occurred when enthusiasm and funding declined. Which situation could most likely contribute to an AI winter?

36 A bank uses an AI model to flag unusual credit-card transactions for review. What is the primary AI application?

37 An online store recommends products based on a customer's previous purchases and browsing history. Which technique is being applied?

38 A hospital uses an AI tool to identify possible tumors in medical scans, but a radiologist makes the final decision. What is the main benefit of this arrangement?

39 Which example best illustrates natural-language processing in a current application?

40 A logistics company uses AI to predict delivery delays by analyzing weather, traffic, and historical shipment data. What makes this an AI application rather than a simple fixed schedule?

41 An agent performs extremely well on a fixed set of chess positions but cannot recognize a chessboard when its orientation changes. Which conclusion is most defensible?

42 A home robot learns to navigate unfamiliar rooms, asks for clarification when instructions are ambiguous, and improves after observing failed attempts. Which combination most strongly supports attributing intelligence to the robot?

43 Why is passing a conversational imitation test insufficient by itself to establish that a system possesses human-like intelligence?

44 Two agents achieve the same reward in a changing environment. Agent A follows a massive lookup table, while Agent B infers compact rules and succeeds in novel situations. Which assessment is strongest?

45 A medical model predicts disease accurately in one hospital but fails after a change in patient demographics and equipment. Which property of intelligence is most clearly missing?

46 Which statement best distinguishes weak AI from strong AI without relying on whether the system is useful or commercially successful?

47 A language model writes a persuasive legal argument but cannot reliably explain the factual consequences of a new law outside its training experience. What does this most directly illustrate?

48 A factory system detects defects, schedules maintenance, and adjusts production, but all capabilities are separately engineered for factory operations. How should it be classified most cautiously?

49 Which observation would provide the strongest evidence for a claim that a system approaches strong AI, while still not proving consciousness?

50 Why can a collection of many weak AI systems still fail to constitute strong AI?

51 Which historical sequence is chronologically correct?

52 What was a major reason early symbolic AI systems struggled when deployed in broad, real-world environments?

53 The success of modern deep learning is best explained by which combination of historical developments?

54 Why are AI winters important when interpreting claims about current AI progress?

55 Which development most directly enabled AI systems to learn representations from large collections of unstructured data rather than depend entirely on hand-crafted features?

56 A bank uses an AI model to approve loans. The model is highly accurate overall but rejects applicants from one region at twice the rate of similarly qualified applicants elsewhere. What is the primary issue?

57 An autonomous vehicle identifies a pedestrian correctly in clear weather but misses one in heavy rain. Which evaluation is most appropriate?

58 A hospital deploys an AI diagnostic tool that performs well in trials but gives unsafe recommendations when clinicians treat its confidence score as certainty. Which safeguard is most directly relevant?

59 A recommendation system increases user engagement by repeatedly showing sensational content, while reliable information receives less exposure. Which trade-off is being illustrated?

60 An AI hiring system was trained on historical employee records from a workforce that was already demographically unbalanced. What is the most likely technical concern?