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AI basics quiz

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ExplorerQuestion 1 of 8

An AI system can only be called AI if it thinks and feels like a person.

ExplorerQuestion 2 of 8

Which of these is the best description of what an AI system produces?

InvestigatorQuestion 3 of 8

Why did many AI researchers move from hand-writing rules to machine learning?

InvestigatorQuestion 4 of 8

In what year was the summer research project on 'artificial intelligence' at Dartmouth College proposed to take place?

InvestigatorQuestion 5 of 8

What did Alan Turing propose in 1950 instead of trying to define whether machines can 'think'?

ScientistQuestion 6 of 8

According to the Stanford AI Index 2026, an AI system reached gold-medal level at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, yet the best model tested read analogue clocks correctly only about half the time.

AdvancedQuestion 7 of 8

What was the status of the central idea in the 1955 Dartmouth proposal — that every feature of intelligence can in principle be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it?

ExpertQuestion 8 of 8

Name any three of the seven characteristics NIST lists for trustworthy AI systems, and explain in one sentence why they must be balanced rather than maximised one at a time.