Questions & Answers
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History of Artificial Intelligence study set below.
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1
Which event is widely considered the founding event of the field of artificial intelligence in 1956?
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A
The Dartmouth Workshop
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B
The invention of the internet
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C
The launch of Sputnik
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D
The first moon landing
2
Who is often referred to as the 'father of theoretical computer science' and proposed a test for machine intelligence?
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A
Isaac Newton
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B
Alan Turing
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C
Nikola Tesla
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D
Bill Gates
3
What is the name of the test designed by Alan Turing to determine if a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to a human?
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A
The Turing Test
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B
The AI Benchmark
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C
The Logic Challenge
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D
The Robot Protocol
4
In 1997, which IBM supercomputer defeated the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov?
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A
Watson
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B
Deep Blue
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C
DeepMind
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D
AlphaGo
5
Which scientist is credited with coining the term 'Artificial Intelligence' in 1955?
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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
6
What was the first AI program, created in 1955, designed to mimic the problem-solving skills of a human mathematician?
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A
The Logic Theorist
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B
Deep Blue
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C
ELIZA
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D
Shakey the Robot
7
ELIZA, one of the first natural language processing programs created in the 1960s, was designed to act as what?
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A
A math tutor
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B
A psychotherapist
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C
A chess player
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D
A weather forecaster
8
In 2016, a program developed by Google DeepMind defeated a world champion in which complex board game?
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A
Checkers
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B
Backgammon
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C
Go
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D
Scrabble
9
Which decade saw the first 'AI winter', a period of reduced funding and interest in AI research?
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A
1950s
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B
1970s
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C
1990s
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D
2010s
10
What was the name of the early mobile robot developed at SRI International in the late 1960s?
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A
Atlas
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B
ASIMO
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C
Shakey
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D
Roomba
11
In what year did the famous Dartmouth Workshop take place?
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A
1945
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B
1956
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C
1962
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D
1970
12
Which company created the AI known as 'Watson' that won the game show Jeopardy! in 2011?
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A
Microsoft
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B
Google
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C
IBM
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D
Apple
13
The first 'expert system', developed in the 1970s to identify bacteria, was called what?
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A
MYCIN
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B
Dendral
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C
DENDRAL
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D
MACSYMA
14
What is the name of the influential 1950 paper by Alan Turing that introduced the concept of the 'Imitation Game'?
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A
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
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B
The AI Manifesto
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C
Principles of Robots
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D
Digital Brains
15
Which program, created in 1972, was one of the first to use rules to analyze organic chemical structures?
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A
Dendral
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B
MYCIN
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C
SHRDLU
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D
LISP
16
Before the term 'Artificial Intelligence' was coined, what field of study was closely related to early AI research?
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A
Cybernetics
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B
Astrology
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C
Architecture
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D
Biology
17
What was the name of the programming language developed in 1958 that became the standard for AI research for many decades?
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A
Python
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B
Java
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C
LISP
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D
C++
18
In 2012, a significant breakthrough in deep learning occurred when a neural network won what competition?
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A
ImageNet Challenge
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B
The Turing Prize
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C
Chess World Cup
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D
Robotics Olympics
