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Artificial Intelligence Basics

Neural networks, AI winters and the machines that beat us at our own games. Can you tell the actual ideas from the marketing jargon?

💻 Technology medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which term describes software that improves at a task by finding patterns in data rather than following hand-written rules?
  • The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was coined in the 1950s.
  • What did Alan Turing propose in 1950 as a practical substitute for asking whether machines can think?
  • Which AI structure takes its name and its loose design from this organ?
  • Where does the 'deep' in deep learning come from?
  • ELIZA, written at MIT in the 1960s, was an early example of what?
  • What makes training data 'supervised' in supervised learning?
  • Which IBM system beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a match in 1997?
  • Select ALL of these that are recognised families of machine learning.
  • Which of these is a textbook example of unsupervised learning?
  • Which DeepMind program defeated Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016?
  • What does it mean when a model is 'overfitting'?
  • What does the GPT in model names like GPT-3 stand for?
  • Does a large language model answer by looking up sentences stored in a database?
  • In a large language model, what is a 'token'?
  • The 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need' introduced which architecture?
  • What was the perceptron, introduced by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958?
  • AI research has gone through funding collapses known as 'AI winters'.
  • Order these AI milestones from earliest to most recent.
  • Select ALL of these that are deep learning frameworks.