AI and Data Flashcard

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What is data?

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Any type of information

Answer explanation

Any type of information can be thought of as data — text, numbers, images, video, audio, etc.

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A collection of Youtube videos featuring cats can be a dataset.

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True

Answer explanation

A dataset is a collection of any type of data such as your music, your photos, your videos, or your browsing history.

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An AI is more likely to correctly identify an object if you increase the number of features it can observe.

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Increase the number of features it can observe.

Answer explanation

The more features that can be observed, the more likely the AI will correctly apply the criteria to classify the object.

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If an AI system were only shown images of cowboy hats as hats, it might have trouble recognizing a baseball cap as a hat.

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True

Answer explanation

An AI is not magic. It can only find patterns in data it is given and can work only as well as the data it is given.

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A large and diverse dataset can help an AI make more accurate predictions or decisions.

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True

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When training an AI to recognize a class of objects, why is it important to use diverse examples?

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The AI will be able to make more accurate predictions about objects in that class.

Answer explanation

If the dataset isn’t diverse enough, the AI might struggle to identify examples that have uncommon features.

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What does a heat sensor measure? (Select all correct answers.)

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The amount of heat in a room or area

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A standard thermometer that can only measure a person’s temperature but cannot tell you who the person is, or what illness they might have, is an example of sensing (but not perceiving).

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True

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What type of sensor do you think would most likely measure a person’s temperature? Options: Camera, Light sensor, Microphone, Thermometer

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Thermometer

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A smart camera that doesn’t just take photos but also recognizes and labels people in the photos is an example of perceiving.

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True