NPTEL An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Assignment Week 1 Solution

1. Which computer system beat Gary Kasparov in a chess game in 1997?

a. Shakey

b. Deep Thought

c. Deep Blue

d. STRIPS

Answer :- B

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2.Which of the following was a major achievement of the computer EQP in 1996?

a. Proved a mathematical theorem

b. Defeated a world champion in a board game

c. Demonstrated human-level language translation

d. Performed human-level object recognition

Answer :- A

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3.Which of the following is NOT the reason for the recent takeoff of Deep learning?

a. It can be used to model all real-world problems

b. Increased computational power with the advent of GPUs

c. Numerical optimizations and algorithmic efficiency

d. Access to a lot more labeled data

Answer :- A

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4.The Turing test considers which of the following trait as evidence of machine intelligence.

a. Acting humanly

b. Thinking humanly

c. Acting rationally

d. Thinking rationally

Answer :- B

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5.The DARPA Urban Challenge was a competition involving building AI agents for

a. Automated gameplay

b. Recognizing objects on urban streets

c. Self-driving cars

d. Machine translation

Answer :- C

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6.Which of the following actions is a rational agent expected to prioritize?

a. The morally correct action

b. Action which leads to the greatest reward

c. Action which leads to greatest expected loss

d. Socially acceptable action

Answer :- B

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7.Which statements among the following statements is/are true for AlphaGo?

a. It was developed by researchers at DeepMind

b. It defeated the world champion in the game of chess

c. It is an example of a weak AI agent

d. None of the above

Answer :- A

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8.Which of the following is a perceptual task?

a. Proving mathematical theorems

b. Playing chess

c. Medical diagnosis

d. Object recognition

Answer :- D

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9.Which of the following are shortcomings of Logic-based AI systems that led to probability-based AI systems?

a. Logic-based AI systems could not run on conventional general-purpose computer hardware

b. Logic cannot be used to make deductions from observations

c. Logic cannot be used to take into account the uncertainty in the environment

d. Logic is NP-hard

Answer :- C

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10.Choose All correct statements about knowledge-based strong AI systems

a. They are supposed to perform general-purpose problem-solving

b. Knowledge about some specific domain is provided to such systems

c. The goal of such systems is to achieve human-level performance on one specific task

d. A* algorithm is an example of a strong AI system

Answer :- A & B