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Meeting AI — check these before the quiz
IdeaWhat to remember
What AI isAI is a program that learns from examples.
Automation or AIAutomation follows fixed steps. AI learns from examples.
Machines and peopleMachines are fast at sums. People understand meaning.
Three ways to learnSupervised learning has labels. Unsupervised has none. Reinforcement learns from rewards.
Sure and wrongAn AI can sound sure and still be wrong.

A photo app spots cats after seeing many cat photos. What made this possible?

  • Someone wrote one fixed rule for every cat
  • It learned a pattern from many examples
  • It counted the letters in the word cat

A traffic light changes on a set timer. What is it?

  • Automation, because it follows fixed steps
  • AI, because it runs by itself
  • AI, because it has lights

A face-unlock feature learned faces from many photos. What is it?

  • Automation
  • AI
  • Neither

Which job needs a person more than a machine?

  • Adding ten thousand numbers
  • Counting steps all day
  • Judging if a joke is unkind

What is labelled data?

  • Data with nothing written on it
  • Data that is wrong
  • Data with the right answer written on it

A program groups shop bills. The bills have no tags. Which way of learning is this?

  • Supervised
  • Unsupervised
  • Reinforcement

A rule calls a real note junk. It still says it is 100% sure. What does this show?

  • Real notes never have exclamation marks
  • The rule must be right
  • An AI can sound sure and still be wrong

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