Artificial Intelligence MCQs with Answers
Which inputs can AI programs accept?
- A. sound
- B. smell
- C. touch
- D. sight and taste
- E. All of the above
Which system, created by Daniel Bobrow, reads and solves algebra word problems?
- A. SHRDLU
- B. SIMD
- C. BACON
- D. STUDENT
The Turing Machine demonstrated that a/an ____ system can implement any algorithm.
- A. binary
- B. electro-chemical
- C. recursive
- D. semantic
In LISP, evaluating (minus (-20 4 8 8 1)) returns:
- A. T
- B. F
- C. NIL
- D. -20
- E. None of the above
What are programs that help developers called?
- A. heuristic processors
- B. symbolic programmers
- C. intelligent programming tools
- D. program recognizers
- E. None of the above
In LISP, (endp list) will:
- A. return a new list
- B. return the list length
- C. return T if list is empty
- D. All of the above
- E. None of the above
Which LISP form sets the symbol a to 10?
- A. (setq a 10)
- B. (a = b) where b=10
- C. (a = 10)
- D. None of the above
In LISP, the atom representing false is:
- A. t
- B. nil
- C. y
- D. time
MIT’s expert system for solving math problems is called:
- A. RAND
- B. ISIS
- C. MACSYMA
- D. MOLGEN
- E. CMU
MLMenu on the TI Explorer is comparable to:
- A. Ethernet
- B. NaturalLink
- C. PROLOG
- D. Personal Consultant
In SISD architecture, how many control units are present?
- A. one
- B. two
- C. more than one
- D. None
The usual command to exit a LISP session is:
- A. quit
- B. exit
- C. bye
- D. ok
In which situation is a blind search strategy most appropriate?
- A. real-life situation
- B. complex game
- C. small search space
- D. All of the above
In LISP, which function returns the tail of a list (all but the first element)?
- A. car
- B. last
- C. cons
- D. cdr
Who created the LISP programming language?
- A. John McCarthy
- B. Marvin Minsky
- C. Alan Turing
- D. Allen Newell and Herbert Simon
Expert Ease, an early AI tool, was developed under the direction of:
- A. John McCarthy
- B. Donald Michie
- C. Lofti Zadeh
- D. Alan Turing
A computer system capable of thinking, reasoning and learning is said to exhibit:
- A. machine intelligence
- B. human intelligence
- C. artificial intelligence
- D. virtual intelligence
Which AI subfield focuses on enabling natural communication between people and computers?
- A. natural language processing
- B. symbolic processing
- C. decision support
- D. robotics
For office automation speech systems to be widely adopted, they must be:
- A. speaker independent
- B. speaker dependent
- C. isolated word recognition
- D. All of the above
LISP machines are also known as:
- A. AI workstations
- B. time-sharing terminals
- C. super mini-computers
- D. All of the above
Natural language processing divides into two main tasks:
- A. context and expectations
- B. generation and understanding
- C. semantics and pragmatics
- D. recognition and synthesis
Traditionally, computers outperform humans at:
- A. storing information
- B. responding flexibly
- C. computing numerically
- D. both (a) and (c)
A computer vision approach using stored image templates is called:
- A. edge detection
- B. binocular vision
- C. model-based vision
- D. robot vision
DARPA, a major AI research funder, is part of the Department of:
- A. Defense
- B. Energy
- C. Education
- D. Justice
Which institution was not an early leader in AI research?
- A. Dartmouth University
- B. Harvard University
- C. MIT
- D. Stanford University
In LISP, (copy-list list) will:
- A. return a new list by copying only the top-level elements
- B. return the length of the list
- C. return T if the list is empty
- D. All of the above
Pat Langley developed a series of AI systems exploring heuristic scientific discovery called:
- A. RAMD
- B. BACON
- C. MIT
- D. DU
A bidirectional feedback loop links computer modeling with:
- A. artificial science
- B. heuristic processing
- C. human intelligence
- D. cognitive science
- E. None of the above
Which type of actuator provides high power but can be messy?
- A. electric
- B. hydraulic
- C. pneumatic
- D. (B) and (C) above
- E. None of the above
Which company produced the LISP machine known as the most powerful symbolic processor?
- A. LMI
- B. Symbolics
- C. Xerox
- D. Texas Instruments
- E. None of the above
Natural language processing is divided into which two subfields?
- A. symbolic and numeric
- B. time and motion
- C. algorithmic and heuristic
- D. understanding and generation
- E. None of the above
A problem is first linked to its proposed solution during the ____ stage.
- A. conceptualization
- B. identification
- C. formalization
- D. implementation
What is the program that simulates human thought processes called?
- A. Human logic
- B. Expert reason
- C. Expert system
- D. Personal information
In LISP, the function that returns the first element of a list is:
- A. set
- B. car
- C. first
- D. second
- E. None of the above
Nils Nilsson’s team at SRI created the mobile robot named:
- A. Robitics
- B. Dedalus
- C. Shakey
- D. Vax
- E. None of the above
Which AI technique lets computers recognize associations between objects and events?
- A. heuristic processing
- B. cognitive science
- C. relative symbolism
- D. pattern matching
- E. None of the above
In LISP, which form assigns the symbol y the value x?
- A. (setq y x)
- B. (set y = ‘x’)
- C. (setq y = ‘x’)
- D. (setq y ‘x’)
- E. None of the above
In a rule-based system, procedural knowledge is represented by:
- A. production rules
- B. rule interpreters
- C. meta-rules
- D. control rules
- E. None of the above
A robot that can change its own path when conditions change is considered:
- A. intelligent
- B. mobile
- C. open loop
- D. non-servo
- E. None of the above
One leading U.S. robotics center is the Robotics Institute at:
- A. CMU
- B. MIT
- C. RAND
- D. SRI
Seymour Papert’s programming environment for children was named:
- A. BASIC
- B. LOGO
- C. MYCIN
- D. FORTRAN
The first LISP machines by LMI and Symbolics were based on research at:
- A. CMU
- B. MIT
- C. Stanford University
- D. RAND
In LISP, how do you write 3 + 2?
- A. 3 + 2
- B. 3 add 2
- C. 3 + 2 =
- D. (+ 3 2)
Programming a robot by guiding it through the desired path is called:
- A. contact sensing control
- B. continuous-path control
- C. robot vision control
- D. pick-and-place control
To start a LISP session, you type:
- A. AI
- B. LISP
- C. CL
- D. both b and c
- E. None of the above
DEC’s XCON expert system ran on which machine?
- A. PDP-11
- B. Rl
- C. VAX
- D. MAGNOM
- E. None of the above
Before time-sharing, users accessed computers via:
- A. batch processing
- B. telecommunication
- C. remote access
- D. All of the above
- E. None of the above
The term for the commonsense part of problem solving is:
- A. Heuristic
- B. Critical
- C. Value based
- D. Analytical
- E. None of the above
Mapping function onto form in manufacturing describes:
- A. Design
- B. Distribution
- C. Project management
- D. Field service
- E. None of the above
Planning by refining levels of detail is called:
- A. hierarchical planning
- B. non-hierarchical planning
- C. All of the above
- D. project planning
- E. None of the above
The “imitation game” is better known today as the:
- A. Turing Test
- B. LISP
- C. Logic Theorist
- D. Cybernetics
- E. None of the above
Decision support systems assist managers with:
- A. budget projections
- B. visual presentations
- C. business decisions
- D. vacation schedules
- E. None of the above
Natural language generation must determine:
- A. what to say
- B. when to say it
- C. why it’s used
- D. both (a) and (b)
- E. None of the above
A process that repeats, is assessed, and refined is called:
- A. diagnostic
- B. descriptive
- C. interpretive
- D. iterative
Helpful visual cues for machine vision include:
- A. colour and motion
- B. depth and texture
- C. height and weight
- D. a and b above