Q 01/05

Which American researcher is credited with coining the term 'artificial intelligence' for a 1956 summer workshop?

A) Alan Turing

B) Norbert Wiener

C) Herbert Simon

D) John McCarthy

Answer · why

D) John McCarthy

John McCarthy later said he invented the name partly to escape the label 'cybernetics', and with it the choice of accepting Norbert Wiener as a guru o...

Q 02/05

Which test judges a machine intelligent if its conversation passes for a human's?

A) Lovelace Test

B) Mirror Test

C) Coffee Test

D) Turing Test

Answer · why

D) Turing Test

Turing Test is today's name for Alan Turing's 1950 'imitation game': rather than define thinking, he asked whether a judge chatting by text could tell...

Q 03/05

Which AI subfield sits at the meeting point of computer science and linguistics?

A) Computer Vision

B) Knowledge Representation

C) Information Retrieval

D) Natural Language Processing

Answer · why

D) Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing had an overconfident start: after a 1954 demo translated some 60 Russian sentences, its organisers predicted machine trans...

Q 04/05

What subset of machine learning uses multi-layered neural networks to learn complex patterns?

A) Deep Learning

B) Evolutionary Computing

C) Symbolic AI

D) Reinforcement Learning

Answer · why

A) Deep Learning

Deep Learning is named for the many layers its data passes through; it took off in the 2010s once graphics chips made training such networks practical...

Q 05/05

Which British-Canadian computer scientist is called the 'Godfather of AI' for his neural-network work?

A) Yann LeCun

B) Geoffrey Hinton

C) Yoshua Bengio

D) Andrew Ng

Answer · why

B) Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton quit Google in 2023 so he could speak freely about AI's risks, saying part of him regretted his life's work; in 2024 he shared the Nob...