AI Pre-Quiz

An algorithm could be used to determine all of the following but most likely not:

• If I'm eligible to buy a flat in Hong Kong

• Which college or university I will be accepted to

• Who I should friend on social media

• What clothes I should wear to school

C-3P0 See-Threepio is a prototype droid in the Star Wars franchise. He is fluent in how many forms of communication?

• Over six million

• 2-3

• Over one billion

• 100

When engineers write algorithms to analyze large amounts of data and make predictions based on the patterns found in data sets, it is called:

• Machine learning

• Google 20% Genius Time

• Binary theoretics

In 2012, Aussie police had to rescue tourists looking for the town of Mildura, after a certain software plotted it 40 miles away in the outback. What was the name of the software?

• Google Maps

• Apple Maps

• Waze

WALL-E, a famous Pixar film, is about the last robot left on Earth. Name his wanna-be companion.

Nine big tech companies are shaping the future of AI, according to The Big Nine author Amy Webb, who is interviewed in the film, Coded Bias. Six of the companies are based in the United States and three are in China. Which company isn't mentioned.

• Amazon

• Facebook

• Alibaba

• Tencent

• Yahoo

Which is an everyday example of artificial intelligence and machine learning?

• Turnitin

• Siri

• Uber

• Spam box

• All answers

The Algorithmic Justice League's mission is to...

• Empower communities and galvanize decision makers to take action that mitigates the harms and biases of AI.

• Fight the evil twins of Wonder Woman and Batman

A family in Portland in 2018 had an incident that raised privacy concerns as voice-assistant devices like the Echo gain more popularity. What happened?

• The Echo device played Led Zeppelin when asked to play K-Pop.

• The Echo device ordered 200 rolls of toilet paper and shipped them to the wrong address.

• The Echo device exposed the user's credit card number by reciting it in a rap.

• The Echo device recorded their private conversation and sent it to a random person on their contact list.

In the 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL-9000, the sadistic and hyper-intelligent computer, is meant to represent which REAL tech company?