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99 free Artificial Intelligence trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
59 free artificial intelligence trivia questions with answers. Think you're an AI expert? Put your knowledge to the test with our engaging artificial intelligence trivia quiz. From machine learning basics to cutting-edge AI developments, this 99-question quiz covers essential concepts that are shaping our digital future. See how well you understand the technology revolutionizing industries worldwide.
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Q 01Who is credited with coining the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in 1956?
John McCarthy
McCarthy co-wrote the 1955 proposal for the summer workshop that introduced the term; he also popularized time-sharing and invented garbage collection.
Q 02Which test judges a machine intelligent if its conversation passes for a human's?
Turing Test
Alan Turing proposed it in 1950: if a judge cannot tell the machine's dialogue from a person's, it passes.
Q 03Which AI subfield, at the meeting point of computer science and linguistics, lets computers process what humans speak and write?
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing powers translation, sentiment analysis and voice assistants.
Q 04What subset of machine learning uses multi-layered neural networks to learn complex patterns?
Deep Learning
Deep learning is characterized by its use of deep neural networks with many layers, allowing it to automatically learn representations from raw data, leading to breakthroughs in areas like image and speech recognition.
Q 05Which British-Canadian computer scientist is called the 'Godfather of AI' for his neural-network work?
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton shared the 2018 Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun for deep-learning work, and left Google in 2023 to speak freely about AI risks.
Q 06Which machine learning approach trains a shared model across many devices without exchanging local data?
Federated Learning
Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed datasets, enhancing data privacy and security by keeping raw data on local devices.
Q 07Which 2017 neural network architecture uses self-attention and became foundational for large language models?
Transformer
The Transformer was introduced in the 2017 Google paper 'Attention Is All You Need'; its self-attention mechanism replaced recurrence and underpins GPT and BERT.
Q 08What approach to computing uses 'degrees of truth' rather than strict true-or-false values?
Fuzzy
Fuzzy logic, introduced by Lotfi Zadeh, provides a mathematical framework for reasoning with imprecise information, mimicking human decision-making processes in situations with ambiguity.
Q 09In 2011, IBM's Watson beat champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings on which TV quiz show?
Jeopardy!
Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy! in February 2011, finishing the three-day exhibition with $77,147 to Jennings's $24,000 and Rutter's $21,600.
Q 10In what kind of simplified virtual environment did Terry Winograd's 1960s program SHRDLU move objects?
A blocks world
SHRDLU operated in a blocks world, a tabletop of colored blocks, pyramids and boxes that users rearranged through typed English commands; Winograd wrote it at MIT around 1968-70.
Q 11Which reigning world chess champion did IBM's Deep Blue beat in a 1997 match?
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue 4-2 in Philadelphia in 1996; after upgrades the machine won the May 1997 New York rematch 3.5-2.5, with two wins, one loss and three draws.
Q 12In March 2016 the program AlphaGo beat which 9-dan Go professional four games to one?
Lee Sedol
Lee Sedol lost the March 2016 Seoul match 4-1 but won game four with his celebrated move 78, the only official game any human ever won against AlphaGo.
Q 13In machine learning, which type of learning trains a model on a labelled dataset?
Supervised Learning
Q 21Which 1955–56 Newell and Simon program is often called the first AI program?
Logic Theorist
The Logic Theorist, written by Allen Newell, Herbert Simon and Cliff Shaw, proved 38 of the first 52 theorems in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica and was presented at the 1956 summer workshop that launched the field.
Q 22Which 1970s Stanford program diagnosed blood infections using about 600 if-then rules?
MYCIN
MYCIN, developed by Edward Shortliffe at Stanford from 1972, encoded roughly 600 rules with certainty factors to identify bacteria causing infections such as bacteremia and meningitis and to suggest antibiotic doses.
Q 23What term describes the periods of reduced AI research funding in the 1970s and 1980s?
AI Winter
Supervised learning uses labeled datasets to train algorithms to predict outcomes and recognize patterns, where the model learns from input-output pairs.
Q 14Which AI subfield lets systems learn from data without being explicitly programmed?
Machine Learning
Machine learning builds statistical models that improve with data rather than following hand-written rules; spam filters, recommendation engines and image classifiers are everyday examples.
Q 15Which chatbot, posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, convinced 33% of judges it was human in 2014?
Eugene Goostman
Eugene Goostman, built by Vladimir Veselov and Eugene Demchenko, fooled 10 of 30 judges at a 2014 Royal Society event; its boyish persona excused grammar slips, and many researchers dismissed the 'pass'.
Q 16Which Toronto team's network won the 2012 large-scale visual recognition challenge, sparking the deep-learning boom?
AlexNet
AlexNet, built by Alex Krizhevsky with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, had 60 million parameters and 650,000 neurons and was trained on two GTX 580 gaming GPUs.
Q 17In October 2017, which country granted citizenship to the humanoid robot Sophia?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia announced Sophia's citizenship at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh in October 2017; built by Hong Kong's Hanson Robotics, she was the first robot granted citizenship by any country.
Q 18Why did Microsoft shut down its Twitter chatbot Tay 16 hours after its 2016 launch?
It began posting offensive tweets
Tay began posting offensive tweets within hours as users taught it to parrot racist and inflammatory content; Microsoft pulled it after 16 hours and later built its bot Zo with tighter filters.
Q 19The 1956 summer workshop regarded as the founding event of AI was held at which college?
Dartmouth
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire hosted the two-month 1956 summer workshop; its organizer, a young assistant professor of mathematics there, had co-written the 1955 proposal with Minsky, Rochester and Shannon.
Q 20Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics first appeared together in which 1942 short story?
Runaround
'Runaround', published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1942, was the first story to state all three laws, quoting the fictional 'Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.'; it was later collected in I, Robot.
The 'AI winter' refers to periods of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research, notably experienced from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, after initial over-optimism led to unfulfilled expectations.
Q 24Which kind of learning has an agent earn rewards and penalties for its actions?
Reinforcement
Reinforcement learning has an agent act in an environment and adjust its policy to maximise cumulative reward; AlphaGo's self-play training is a well-known example.
Q 25Kismet, Cynthia Breazeal's 1990s MIT robot head, tried to get a machine to do what?
Recognize and simulate emotions
Kismet was built to recognize and simulate emotions: it read a person's voice tone and gaze and responded with moods shown through eyebrows, ears, lips and vocal babble, an early landmark in affective computing.
Q 26The Roomba, an autonomous robotic vacuum first sold in 2002, was created by which company?
iRobot
iRobot, co-founded in 1990 by MIT roboticists Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner, launched the Roomba in 2002 and also built the military PackBot before selling its defence business in 2016.
Q 27Which AI ethics principle says systems should be inclusive and avoid discriminating against groups?
Fairness
Fairness is a key principle in AI ethics, aiming to ensure that AI systems are inclusive, accessible, and do not perpetuate or create unfair discrimination against individuals or groups, often by addressing biases in training data.
Q 28What kind of AI performs one specific task well but lacks broader cognitive abilities?
Weak AI
Weak AI, also called narrow AI, is built for one job such as face recognition or translation and can exceed humans there without any general understanding; a chess engine cannot drive a car.
Q 29Which machine-learning method finds structure in unlabeled data without a known output?
Unsupervised
Unsupervised learning works on unlabeled data and finds structure on its own; grouping similar customers or compressing data with principal component analysis are classic uses.
Q 30Which field of artificial intelligence trains machines to interpret digital images and videos from the real world?
Computer Vision
Computer Vision covers acquiring, processing and analysing images to pull out numerical or symbolic information, such as a decision.