Recipes and Learning Machines: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 7 edition, written for 7th grade. What is AI? Follow it from Turing's 1950 question and the Dartmouth proposal to Deep Blue, neural networks and chatbots, and learn how to check what an AI says.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is a computer program the way a baker follows a recipe?
   • A set of exact steps (answer)
   • A neural network
   • A web forum
2. What did the 1955 Dartmouth proposal guess?
   • That chess was too hard
   • That every part of learning could be described so exactly that a machine could simulate it (answer)
   • That phones would talk
3. Which game did AlphaGo beat a top player at in March 2016?
   • Chess
   • Checkers
   • Go (answer)
4. Why can a language AI make a false statement that sounds right?
   • It picks words by probability (answer)
   • It only reads one book
   • It cannot read
5. What is a false positive in a spam filter?
   • A good email flagged as spam (answer)
   • Junk mail that gets through
   • A very large amount of data

Words

• tokens: small word pieces
• nodes: simple parts
• simulate: act like
• lateral: sideways checking
• brute: try everything