About this Study Set
This study set covers Artificial Intelligence History through
15 practice questions.
A collection of challenging facts regarding the origins and breakthrough discoveries in artificial intelligence and machine learning history. Every question includes the correct answer so you can learn as you go — pick any format above to get started.
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AI and ML Historical Milestones study set below.
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1
Who published the 1943 paper 'A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity', which introduced the first mathematical model of a biological neuron?
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A
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts
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B
Alan Turing and John von Neumann
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C
Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert
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D
Claude Shannon and John McCarthy
2
What was the name of the first neural network-based hardware computer, built in 1951 by Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds?
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A
Perceptron
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B
SNARC
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C
Mark I
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D
Logic Theorist
3
In 1956, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was held. Who is credited with coining the term 'Artificial Intelligence' for this workshop?
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A
Herbert Simon
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B
Allen Newell
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C
John McCarthy
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D
Arthur Samuel
4
Frank Rosenblatt developed the Perceptron in 1957. What specific limitation did Minsky and Papert expose in their 1969 book that led to the 'AI Winter'?
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A
Inability to perform backpropagation
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B
Inability to solve the XOR problem
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C
High computational latency
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D
Lack of training data
5
What is the name of the expert system developed at Stanford in the 1970s, designed to identify bacteria causing severe infections?
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A
DENDRAL
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B
MYCIN
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C
XCON
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D
R1
6
Arthur Samuel, a pioneer in machine learning, created a program that famously defeated a human master at which game in 1962?
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A
Chess
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B
Go
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C
Checkers
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D
Backgammon
7
The backpropagation algorithm, essential for training deep neural networks, was popularized in the scientific community by a 1986 paper written by which researchers?
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A
Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams
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B
Bengio, LeCun, and Schmidhuber
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C
Silver, Hassabis, and Legg
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D
Goodfellow, Pouget-Abadie, and Mirza
8
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning world chess champion. Who was the champion defeated?
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A
Anatoly Karpov
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B
Viswanathan Anand
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C
Garry Kasparov
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D
Vladimir Kramnik
9
What was the first official 'AI' program, presented at the Dartmouth Conference, capable of proving mathematical theorems?
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A
General Problem Solver
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B
Logic Theorist
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C
ELIZA
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D
SHRDLU
10
Who invented the 'ELIZA' chatbot in the mid-1960s, which simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist?
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A
Joseph Weizenbaum
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B
Terry Winograd
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C
John Searle
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D
Hubert Dreyfus
11
In the context of reinforcement learning, who introduced the Q-learning algorithm in 1989?
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A
Richard Sutton
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B
Christopher Watkins
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C
Andrew Barto
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D
Geoffrey Hinton
12
What was the first system to demonstrate the ability to learn a strategy to play Atari 2600 games directly from raw pixel inputs using Deep Q-Networks?
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A
DeepMind
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B
OpenAI
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C
Google Brain
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D
Baidu Research
13
Which algorithm, introduced in 1995, became the standard for handling non-linear classification tasks in machine learning before the deep learning resurgence?
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A
Random Forest
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B
Gradient Boosting
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C
Support Vector Machines
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D
Naive Bayes
14
In 2012, the AlexNet architecture achieved a breakthrough in the ImageNet challenge. Who were the primary authors of this paper?
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A
Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton
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B
LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton
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C
Silver and Hassabis
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D
Schmidhuber and Hochreiter
15
The term 'Deep Learning' was popularized to describe the multi-layer perceptron advancements. Which researcher is widely credited with the invention of the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network in 1997?
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A
Sepp Hochreiter
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B
Yann LeCun
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C
Yoshua Bengio
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D
Ian Goodfellow
