MCQs on the History of AI

Who is known as the father of artificial intelligence?

• Alan Turing

• John McCarthy

• Marvin Minsky

• Herbert Simon

What year is considered the birth of artificial intelligence as a field?

• 1943

• 1956

• 1965

• 1972

Which event is often cited as the founding moment of AI as an academic discipline?

• The Turing Test

• The Dartmouth Conference

• The publication of "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

• The development of the first neural network

Who developed the concept of the Turing Test?

• Alan Turing

• Claude Shannon

• John von Neumann

• Norbert Wiener

Which AI system defeated Garry Kasparov in a chess match in 1997?

• Deep Thought

• AlphaGo

• Watson

• Deep Blue

Which AI milestone was achieved by the AlphaGo system in 2016?

• Winning the World Chess Championship

• Beating the human champion in the game of Go

• Winning Jeopardy!

• Passing the Turing Test

Which programming language, created by John McCarthy, is closely associated with AI research?

• FORTRAN

• COBOL

• LISP

• Python

What is the term for a period of reduced funding and interest in AI research, typically due to unmet expectations?

• AI Summer

• AI Spring

• AI Winter

• AI Autumn

Which AI system won the quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011?

• Deep Blue

• AlphaGo

• Watson

• Siri

In which year did IBM's Watson win the Jeopardy! challenge against human champions?

• 2009

• 2010

• 2011

• 2012