Q1. Special programs that assist programmers are called:
(A) Intelligent programming tools
(B) Symbol programmers
(C) Heuristic processors
(D) Program recognizers
Q2. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes could be called a pioneer of artificial intelligence, then who could be called its father?
(A) John McCarthy
(B) A. Turing
(C) Allen Newell
(D) Herbert Simon
Q3. The AI system developed by Daniel Bobrow to read and solve algebra word problems:
(A) STUDENT
(B) SHRDLU
(C) SIMD
(D) None of these
Q4. This widely used commercial form of Artificial Intelligence is being used in many popular products like microwave ovens, automobiles, and plug-in circuit boards for desktop PCs. It allows machines to handle vague information with defines that mimic human thinking. What is the name of this AI?
(A) Boolean logic
(B) Fuzzy logic
(C) Human logic
(D) Functional logic
Q5. In his landmark book Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener suggested a way of modeling scientific phenomena using not energy but:
(A) Mathematics
(B) Intelligence
(C) Logic
(D) Information
Q6. Input segments of AI programming contain:
(A) Sound, Smell, and Touch
(B) History
(C) State management
(D) None of these
Q7. Elementary linguistics which are smaller than words are:
(A) Allophones
(B) Phonemes
(C) Syntax
(D) All of these
Q8. Arthur Samuel is linked inextricably with a program that played:
(A) Chess and cards
(B) Checkers
(C) Football
(D) None of these
Q9. The conference that launched the AI revolution in 1956 was held at:
(A) Harvard
(B) New York
(C) Dartmouth
(D) Stanford
Q10. Texas Instruments Incorporated produces a low-cost LISP machine called:
(A) The Computer-based Consultant
(B) Smalltalk
(C) Personal Consultant
(D) The Explorer
Q11. One method of programming a computer to exhibit human intelligence is called modeling or:
(A) Simulation
(B) Duplication
(C) Cognition
(D) Psychometrication
Q12. Graphic interfaces were first used in a Xerox product called:
(A) Interlisp
(B) Smalltalk
(C) Zeta Lisp
(D) All of these
Q13. The company that grew out of research at the MIT AI labs:
(A) Symbolics
(B) Alcor
(C) IBM
(D) A and B
Q14. The original way to exit most LISP systems is to enter:
(A) Quit or bye
(B) Quit or look
(C) Quit or bye
(D) Quit
Q15. The expert system developed at MIT to solve mathematical problems is known as:
(A) MACSYMA
(B) RAND
(C) MOLGEN
(D) None of these
Q16. Which approach to speech recognition solves the problem caused by the differences in the way words are pronounced according to context?
(A) Isolated word recognition
(B) Connected word recognition
(C) Continuous speech recognition
(D) Speaker-dependent recognition
Q17. A KES knowledge base contains information in the form of:
(A) Associations
(B) Associations, actions, and free text
(C) Rules
(D) None of these
Q18. In AI programming, a list may contain:
(A) Cells, fields, and pointers
(B) Associations, actions
(C) None of these
Q19. The area of AI that investigates methods of facilitating communication between people and computers is:
(A) Natural language processing
(B) Human-computer interaction
(C) Speech recognition
(D) A and B
Q21. PROLOG is an AI programming language which solves problems with a form of symbolic logic known as predicate calculus. It was developed in 1972 at the University of Marseille by a team of specialists. Can you name the person who headed this team?
(A) Nicklaus Wirth
(B) Seymour Papert
(C) Alain Colmerauer
(D) John McCarthy
Q22. Programming a robot by physically moving it through the trajectory you want it to follow is called:
(A) Open place control
(B) Robot vision control
(C) Contact sensing control
(D) Continuous path control
Q23. Prior to the invention of time sharing, the prevalent method of computer access was:
(A) Telecommunication
(B) Batch processing
(C) Remote access
(D) None of these
Q24. Seymour Papert of the MIT AI Lab created a programming environment for children called:
(A) BASIC and FORTRAN
(B) LOGO
(C) LISP
(D) None of these
Q25. The Strategic Computing Program is a project of the:
(A) National Science Foundation
(B) Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(C) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(D) Brainstorming
Q26. What is the term used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of problem solving?
(A) Selected
(B) Value based
(C) Logic
(D) Heuristic
Q27. If a robot can alter its own trajectory in response to external conditions, it is considered to be:
(A) Open loop
(B) Mobile
(C) Process
(D) Intelligent
Q28. One of the leading American robotics centers is the Robotics Institute located at:
(A) MIT
(B) Carnegie Mellon
(C) Stanford
(D) None of these
Q29. A bidirectional feedback loop links computer modeling with:
(A) Artificial science
(B) Heuristic processing
(C) Cognitive science
(D) None of these
Q30. Expert Ease was developed under the direction of:
(A) Donald Michie
(B) John McCarthy
(C) Lotfi Zadeh
(D) Alan Turing
Q31. “The Turing Machine” showed that you could use a/an system to program any algorithmic task:
(A) Recursive
(B) Binary
(C) Electrochemical
(D) None of these
Q32. Research scientists all over the world are taking steps towards building computers with cells patterned after the complex interconnections existing among the human brain’s nerve cells. What name is given to such type of computers?
(A) Intelligent computers
(B) Smart computers
(C) Supercomputers
(D) Neural network computers
Q33. A process that is repeated, evaluated, and refined is called:
(A) Iterative
(B) Diagnostic and descriptive
(C) Interpretive
(D) None of these
Q34. Visual clues that are helpful in computer vision include:
(A) Height and weight
(B) Color and texture
(C) Color and motion and depth and texture
(D) None of these
Q35. A natural language generation program must decide:
(A) What to say
(B) When to say something
(C) Why it is being used
(D) Both a) and b)
Q36. Who is considered to be the “father” of artificial intelligence?
(A) Fierzada
(B) Alan Turing
(C) Allen Newell
(D) McCarthy
Q37. In which of the following areas may CAI programs prove to be useful?
(A) Educational tuitions
(B) Corporations and department of defense
(C) Both of a) and b)
(D) None of these
Q38. LISP machines are now as:
(A) AI workstations
(B) Time sharing terminals
(C) Super mini computers
(D) All of these
Q39. Natural language processing can be divided into the two subfields of:
(A) Context and expectations
(B) Generation and understanding
(C) Semantics of pragmatics
(D) Recognition and synthesis
Q40. Which of the following have computers traditionally done better than people?
(A) Storing information and computing numerically
(B) Responding flexibly
(C) Storing information
(D) None of these
Q41. The characteristics of the computer system capable of thinking, reasoning, and learning are known as:
(A) Machine intelligence
(B) Artificial intelligence
(C) Human intelligence
(D) Virtual intelligence