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Assignment 1 How Does an NPTEL Online Course Work? the Due Date for Submitting This Assignment Has Passed 1/23/2021 Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving - - Unit 4 - Week 1 X (https://swayam.gov.in) (https://swayam.gov.in/nc_details/NPTEL) [email protected] NPTEL (https://swayam.gov.in/explorer?ncCode=NPTEL) » Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving (course) Announcements (announcements) About the Course (preview) Ask a Question (forum) Progress (student/home) Mentor (student/mentor) Unit 4 - Week 1 Course outline Assignment 1 How does an NPTEL online course work? The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2020-09-30, 23:59 IST. As per our records you have not submitted this assignment. Pre-requisite Assignment The questions in this assignment are recall based, essentially to remind you about the key points in the long history of the desire and quest for building Week 0 thinking machines. 1) ________ is often referred to as the “first programmer” 1 point Week 1 Charles Babbage The Notion of Mind in Lady Ada Lovelace Philosophy (unit? unit=6&lesson=119) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Alan Turing Reasoning = Computation (unit?unit=6&lesson=120) No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Concepts and Categories Accepted Answers: (unit?unit=6&lesson=121) Lady Ada Lovelace How did AI get its name? 2) Who among the following was the first to build a calculating machine? 1 point (unit?unit=6&lesson=122) The Chess Saga (unit? Blaise Pascal unit=6&lesson=123) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz A Brief History of AI (unit? Thomas de Colmar unit=6&lesson=124) Galileo Galilei The Worlds in our Minds No, the answer is incorrect. (unit?unit=6&lesson=125) Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Epiphemona in Computers Blaise Pascal (unit?unit=6&lesson=126) 3) What can you recall about the “Dartmouth conference” discussed in the lectures? Please note that you will get a zero for even one false positive 1 point Week 1- Feedback : Artificial Intelligence Search Methods It was organized in 1956 to develop ideas about “thinking machines” for problem Solving (unit? unit=6&lesson=13) It was organized by John McCarthy, Alan Turing and Marvin Minsky at Dartmouth College The term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined at Dartmouth Quiz : Assignment 1 (assessment?name=117) Turing devised the Turing test at Dartmouth Lecture Materials (unit? No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 unit=6&lesson=172) Accepted Answers: Week 2 It was organized in 1956 to develop ideas about “thinking machines” The term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined at Dartmouth Week 3 4) Who said the following? - “Thoughts themselves are symbolic representations” 1 point Week 4 Rene Descartes John McCarthy Week 5 Galileo Galilei Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Week 6 No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Week 7 Accepted Answers: Rene Descartes Week 8 5) The “Universal Grammar” is ______________________ 1 point Week 9 a theory by Chomsky that says: all humans are born with a common grammar Week 10 a grammar not designed for any particular natural language a grammar that describes the structure of the Universe Week 11 a worldwide standard for English grammar N th i i t https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cs81/unit?unit=6&assessment=117 1/4 1/23/2021 Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving - - Unit 4 - Week 1 No, the answer is incorrect. Week 12 Score: 0 Accepted Answers: DOWNLOAD VIDEOS a theory by Chomsky that says: all humans are born with a common grammar a grammar not designed for any particular natural language 6) Can you recall the picture, given in Figure 1, from the lectures? In what context was it used? 1 point To entertain the idea that AI is better than humans at solving pathfinding problems To illustrate that bad town planning leads to poor utilization of land To express the richness, ambiguity and impreciseness of natural language This natural language conversation scenario being proposed as an alternate Turing test No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: To express the richness, ambiguity and impreciseness of natural language 7) The “Logic Theorist” was ____________________ 1 point a mathematician who worked on Logic a computer program to find proofs a program designed by Simon and Newell a logic based chess player No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: a computer program to find proofs a program designed by Simon and Newell 8) Which of the following statements is/are true about “Physical Symbol System Hypothesis”? 1 point It is an approach to AI, based on the assumption that all aspects of intelligence can be achieved by the manipulation of symbols It was proposed by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in the mid 1960s A physical symbol system understands the laws of physics The three laws of robotics were especially devised for physical symbol systems No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: It is an approach to AI, based on the assumption that all aspects of intelligence can be achieved by the manipulation of symbols It was proposed by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon in the mid 1960s 9) ______ was the first general-purpose mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions. 1 point ELIZA SHAKEY SHRDLU Blue Gene No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: SHAKEY 10) ELIZA ... 1 point was the first general-purpose mobile robot was a simple natural language processing program written at MIT could manipulate the users input to generate its responses was the first to win the Loebner prize N th i i t https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cs81/unit?unit=6&assessment=117 2/4 1/23/2021 Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving - - Unit 4 - Week 1 No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: was a simple natural language processing program written at MIT could manipulate the users input to generate its responses 11) Which of the following address the question whether machines can be intelligent? 1 point Loebner Prize Turing Test Rorschach Test Winograd Schemas No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Loebner Prize Turing Test Winograd Schemas 12) As discussed in the lectures, which of the following is/are successfully deployed embodied robots in the current times? 1 point Nadine, the social companion AlphaGo, the playing companion Iva, the chatting companion Kirobo, the space companion No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Nadine, the social companion Kirobo, the space companion 13) Which of the following AI agents demonstrated that machines can beat the best humans at chess? 1 point Deep Thought Blue Gene Deep Blue Chess Machine No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Deep Blue 14) As discussed in the “Artificial Intelligence: Search Methods for Problem Solving - Prologue”, this course is about 1 point Problem solving Model Based Reasoning Experience Based Reasoning Memory Based Reasoning No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Problem solving Model Based Reasoning 15) The motorcycle soon overtook the school bus because it was going too fast. What was going too fast? 1 point the motorcycle the school bus No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: the motorcycle 16) The motorcycle soon overtook the school bus because it was going too slow. What was going too slow? 1 point the motorcycle the school bus No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: the school bus 17) Suresh told Ramesh that he scolded him because he had hit the little dog. Who had hit the little dog? 1 point Suresh Ramesh No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Ramesh 18) Suresh told Ramesh that he scolded him because he had hit the little dog. Who did the scolding? 1 point https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cs81/unit?unit=6&assessment=117 3/4 1/23/2021 Artificial Intelligence Search Methods For Problem Solving - - Unit 4 - Week 1 Suresh Ramesh No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Suresh 19) Snigdha told Ramesh that she scolded him because she was in a bad mood. Who was in a bad mood? 1 point Snigdha Ramesh No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: Snigdha 20) The above five questions involve anaphora resolution . For a computer program to answer the above five questions correctly it would 1 point need to be able to search over the internet for similar sentences need to be able to parse the natural language sentences to extract the answers need a lot of common-sense knowledge about the world need to understand the semantics of gender when talking about people and languages (in many Indian languages nouns and verbs have gender associated with them) need to be able to use data science effectively No, the answer is incorrect. Score: 0 Accepted Answers: need a lot of common-sense knowledge about the world need to understand the semantics of gender when talking about people and languages (in many Indian languages nouns and verbs have gender associated with them) https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cs81/unit?unit=6&assessment=117 4/4.
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