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This study set covers History Of Artificial Intelligence through
20 practice questions.
A collection of historical firsts, inventions, and foundational discoveries in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Every question includes the correct answer so you can learn as you go — pick any format above to get started.
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Historical Milestones in AI and ML study set below.
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1
What was the first program to successfully beat a human professional player in a game of Go, achieving this feat in 2016?
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A
AlphaGo
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B
DeepBlue
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C
Chinook
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D
Watson
2
Which 1950 paper by Alan Turing introduced the 'Imitation Game' as a test for machine intelligence?
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A
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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B
The Logic of AI
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C
The Turing Hypothesis
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D
Machines That Think
3
What is the name of the first autonomous vehicle to successfully complete the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005?
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A
Stanley
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B
Ghostrider
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C
TerraMax
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D
Sandstorm
4
In 1956, which academic event is widely recognized as the birth of AI as an official field of study?
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A
Dartmouth Workshop
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B
Stanford AI Conference
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C
MIT Symposium
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D
Princeton AI Seminar
5
Frank Rosenblatt developed which foundational neural network architecture in 1958, capable of pattern recognition?
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A
Perceptron
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B
Backpropagation
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C
Convolutional Network
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D
Recurrent Network
6
What was the first chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 and 1966, designed to simulate a psychotherapist?
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A
ELIZA
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B
PARRY
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C
ALICE
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D
SHRDLU
7
Which AI system developed by IBM became the first to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match under tournament regulations in 1997?
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A
Deep Blue
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B
Deep Thought
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C
Fritz
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D
Stockfish
8
What is the name of the first expert system, developed in 1965 to identify unknown organic molecules based on mass spectrometry data?
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A
DENDRAL
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B
MYCIN
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C
XCON
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D
MACSYMA
9
Which machine learning algorithm was famously used by the 'DeepMind' team to achieve human-level performance on Atari 2600 games in 2013?
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A
Deep Q-Network
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B
Support Vector Machine
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C
Random Forest
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D
K-Means Clustering
10
Who coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in his 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project?
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A
John McCarthy
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B
Marvin Minsky
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C
Herbert Simon
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D
Allen Newell
11
What was the first AI program to demonstrate a 'learning' capability by playing checkers, written by Arthur Samuel in 1952?
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A
Samuel Checkers-playing Program
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B
CheckersBot
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C
AlphaCheckers
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D
The Checkers Engine
12
Which neural network architecture, introduced by Yann LeCun in 1989, became the first practical application of backpropagation for handwritten digit recognition?
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A
LeNet
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B
AlexNet
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C
ResNet
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D
VGG
13
What was the first natural language processing system created by Terry Winograd in 1970 that could manipulate virtual objects in a 'blocks world'?
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A
SHRDLU
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B
DOCTOR
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C
LUNAR
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D
BABEL
14
In 2012, which deep convolutional neural network won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge by a massive margin, sparking the deep learning boom?
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A
AlexNet
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B
Inception
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C
GoogLeNet
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D
ZFNet
15
Which 1974 breakthrough by Paul Werbos was the first to propose the use of backpropagation for training artificial neural networks?
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A
The Werbos Thesis
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B
The Delta Rule
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C
The Feed-Forward Discovery
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D
Gradient Descent Paper
16
What was the first robot, developed by Waseda University in 1972, to demonstrate a human-like humanoid interface?
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A
WABOT-1
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B
ASIMO
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C
CB2
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D
QRIO
17
The 'Perceptron' was proven to have severe limitations in performing XOR operations in which 1969 book by Minsky and Papert?
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A
Perceptrons
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B
The Society of Mind
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C
AI: A Modern Approach
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D
Machines and Intelligence
18
What is the name of the first AI to win the game 'Jeopardy!' against human champions in 2011?
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A
Watson
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B
DeepQA
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C
BlueBot
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D
Brainy
19
Which algorithm, formalized in 1986 by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, became the standard for training multi-layer perceptrons?
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A
Backpropagation
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B
Evolutionary Algorithms
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C
Genetic Programming
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D
Reinforcement Learning
20
What was the first computer program to prove a mathematical theorem, developed by Allen Newell and Herbert Simon in 1956?
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A
Logic Theorist
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B
Theorem Prover I
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C
Principia Prover
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D
MathMachine
