Can Machines Think?: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. What is AI? Follow it from Turing's 1950 question to Deep Blue, neural networks and chatbots, and see why people should check what an AI says.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where does the name artificial intelligence come from?
   • A 1955 proposal for a summer project at Dartmouth College (answer)
   • A chess match in 1997
   • A phone in 1950
2. In Turing's game, how are the answers given?
   • Spoken out loud
   • Typed (answer)
   • Drawn as pictures
3. How did Deep Blue play chess?
   • By copying the champion
   • By trying a huge number of moves and replies (answer)
   • By flipping a coin
4. What does a language AI do?
   • It looks up one right answer in a book
   • It predicts which word is likely to come next (answer)
   • It listens for tokens in a song
5. A chatbot names an article. What should a person do?
   • Trust it because it sounds sure
   • Ask the chatbot to check itself
   • Search to confirm that it really exists (answer)

Words

• brute: try everything
• tokens: small word pieces
• autocomplete: word guesser
• lateral: sideways checking
• predictions: guesses