1.10 — Foundations quiz 📊

Answer before looking at the solutions.

1. In what year and where was the term “artificial intelligence” coined?

2. True or false: MYCIN failed because it diagnosed worse than doctors.

3. Which two ingredients, appearing around 2010, made Deep Learning possible?

4. In one sentence: how does an LLM “write” a text?

5. Which lab builds each of these assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini?

6. A program automatically sends a “Happy Birthday” email to your customers on the right date every year. RPA, IPA, or APA?

7. An AI assistant is given the instruction “reduce our delivery delays this quarter,” analyzes the data, contacts carriers, and adjusts the plan on its own. RPA, IPA, or APA?

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1. 1956, at the Dartmouth conference (term proposed by John McCarthy).
2. False. It performed as well as the specialists; it was never deployed due to integration, legal-liability, and ethical reasons.
3. Massive data (via the Internet) and GPUs (powerful graphics cards).
4. It predicts the most probable word after the previous ones, then repeats, based on billions of texts it has read.
5. ChatGPT → OpenAI · Claude → Anthropic · Gemini → Google. (These engine versions change fast, but the vendors stay stable.)
6. RPA. Strict rule “if the date matches, send the template.” No reasoning, no adaptation.
7. APA / agentic. You give a goal, the agent reasons, uses tools, and self-corrects.