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Quiz: What is Artificial Intelligence?

Passing score: 8/10

Several distractors below are statements people make in real design meetings. Each one mixes up two of the six axes or treats a definition as if it were universal.

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  1. Question 1

    In the EU AI Act and OECD definition of an AI system, which word carries most of the weight in separating AI systems from ordinary software?

  2. Question 2

    A hand-coded tax calculator applies 2,000 rules written by the finance team. How does it fare under the three definitions in the chapter?

  3. Question 3

    Which statement about a minimax chess program is best supported by the chapter?

  4. Question 4

    Which of these belongs on the authority axis?

  5. Question 5

    Why is "Generative AI" a poor value for the model-family axis?

  6. Question 6

    Gmail's spam filter moves messages to the Spam folder without asking anyone. Why is that level of authority acceptable?

  7. Question 7

    On the Sheridan–Verplank scale, a system that prepares an exact change and applies it only when a person approves it sits at which level?

  8. Question 8

    In Moffatt v. Air Canada (2024), what did the tribunal decide about the chatbot's incorrect answer?

  9. Question 9

    Using the chapter's illustrative costs, a customer-service assistant is wrong on 2% of policy answers. Which review policy is cheapest?

  10. Question 10

    Before choosing "no review" for that assistant, the team wants to show its error rate is below the 0.17% flip point with 95% confidence. Roughly how many consecutive correct answers does that take?

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