AI Metaphors
“Called the ‘electrical grid of the 21st century,’ this AI pioneer compared AI to a foundational utility powering countless applications.”
Who is Andrew NG?
“This is the raw inputs—text, numbers, images—that fuel AI’s learning.”
What is data?
“This method begins with a question to guide deeper understanding—named for a Greek philosopher.”
What is the Socratic method?
False
“In Ng’s metaphor, this ‘ingredient’ is likened to the wires that carry power.”
What is massive compute?
“This stage uses a trained model to process new inputs and generate outputs on demand.”
What is inference?
“In prompt engineering, you supply these mini-samples to show the AI the desired style.”
What are templates or examples?
T/F:Summarizing articles or drafting cover letters requires online access?
False
“Fei-Fei Li compares today’s vision-based AIs to this age of toddler learning to see.”
What is three-year-olds?
“These are the trained parameters that ‘know’ how to map inputs to useful outputs.”
What are models?
“Asking the AI to ‘think through’ its reasoning step-by-step is known by this phrase.”
What is chain-of-thought prompting?
T/F Heavy workloads like multimodal processing (video, images), require online AI
True
“In Li’s metaphor, the labeled picture examples AI trains on are compared to these children’s learning tools.”
What are picture books?
“Wrapping inference in tools (chatbots, dashboards, apps) is called this.”
What is deployment?
“This prompt-skill practice frames the AI’s persona or background to match intended perspective.”
What is providing context or role?
T/F Access to Real-Time & Up-to-Date Data requires internet access
True
Andrew Ng’s called these AI building blocks—clever recipes that discover patterns in data.”
What are algorithms?
“The learning procedures (recipes)—like neural-network training—that discover patterns in data.”
What are algorithms?
“Iterating on a prompt—asking for “Make it shorter,” “Add these details”—is called this.”
What is iterative refinement?
What are the benefits to offline AI?
Data privacy, continue working offline, cost control, NIST compliant