Major Milestones in AI Evolution AIE Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   A product manager is evaluating whether to invest in a generative AI feature for their company's design tool. The team lead argues that generative models are the latest milestone in AI evolution and will be transformative. The product manager is skeptical because previous 'AI winters' led to failed investments. Which historical pattern should the product manager consider when making this decision?

   • AGenerative models are the final milestone in AI, so no further research is needed.
   • BThe 'AI winters' were caused by overhyped expectations followed by under-delivery, so the team should temper expectations and focus on realistic use cases.
   • CAll AI milestones have led to immediate commercial success, so the investment is guaranteed to pay off.
   • DThe 'AI winters' only affected symbolic AI, so generative models are immune to similar downturns.
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2. 12foundation · easy

   Which milestone is widely considered the event that formally established artificial intelligence as a distinct field of study?

   • AThe development of the first expert system, DENDRAL, in the 1960s
   • BThe invention of the perceptron in 1958
   • CThe Dartmouth workshop of 1956
   • DThe publication of 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' in 1950
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4. 13application · medium

   A robotics company is designing a system that must learn to recognize objects in a cluttered warehouse. The team is debating between using a rule-based approach and a neural network. The lead engineer notes that the rule-based approach failed in the 1980s for complex perception tasks, which led to a shift in the field. Which consequence of that historical failure is most relevant to the team's decision?

   • AThe failure contributed to an 'AI winter' that reduced funding, but it also motivated the eventual rise of machine learning approaches that could learn features from data.
   • BThe failure proved that AI could not handle perception tasks, so the team should abandon the project.
   • CThe failure led to the development of expert systems that could encode human knowledge for perception tasks.
   • DThe failure had no impact on subsequent research, as the field simply continued with the same techniques.
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5. 14application · easy

   A university AI ethics committee is reviewing a proposal to build a chatbot that can converse naturally with students. The lead researcher wants to include a test where human evaluators cannot reliably distinguish the bot from a human. Which historical milestone's evaluation methodology is the researcher directly applying?

   • AThe backpropagation algorithm popularized by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams.
   • BThe perceptron learning rule developed by Frank Rosenblatt.
   • CThe Turing test proposed by Alan Turing.
   • DThe expert system MYCIN's consultation protocol.
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6. 15foundation · easy

   Which individual is credited with coining the term 'artificial intelligence'?

   • AAlan Turing
   • BArthur Samuel
   • CJohn McCarthy
   • DMarvin Minsky
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