Testing Machines, Trusting Machines: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 9 edition, written for 9th grade. What is AI? See how people have tested machines, from Turing's game to Deep Blue and AlphaGo, why language AIs hallucinate and show bias, and how to check AI answers.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did McCarthy write about the Turing test?
   • It is one-sided (answer)
   • It is perfect
   • It is a chess game
2. Why can a real source named by an AI still be a problem?
   • It may not contain what the AI says it does (answer)
   • It is always old
   • It is always a book
3. What is historical bias?
   • A bug in a game
   • Training data that reflects unfair conditions from the past (answer)
   • Old software
4. What did the 2018 MIT study find about error rates?
   • The same for everyone
   • Zero for all programs
   • Higher for darker-skinned women than for light-skinned men (answer)
5. How many levels of risk does the EU AI Act sort systems into?
   • Two
   • Four (answer)
   • Seven

Words

• perceptron: early neural network
• hallucinations: confident mistakes
• bias: unfair lean
• citations: named sources
• brute: try everything