What Counts as AI?: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 8 edition, written for 8th grade. What counts as AI? Trace it from the 1955 Dartmouth proposal and Turing's imitation game to the Perceptron, 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. How did John McCarthy define AI?
   • The science and engineering of making intelligent machines (answer)
   • A way to teach computers to play chess
   • A kind of web forum
2. Why is the starting date of AI a matter of how the field is defined?
   • AI work was already going on before 1956 (answer)
   • No one remembers 1956
   • The Dartmouth conference was cancelled
3. In the game Turing described, how are the answers given?
   • Typed (answer)
   • Spoken
   • Whispered
4. What does generative AI do, compared with only making a prediction?
   • It is trained to create new data (answer)
   • It only labels pictures
   • It sorts email by hand
5. What is a good way to check an AI's claims?
   • Ask the same AI to check its own work
   • Compare them with other reliable sources (answer)
   • Trust a confident answer

Words

• perceptron: first trainable network
• heuristics: rules of thumb
• generative: that creates
• simulate: act like
• hallucinations: AI mistakes