Calling a Vocab
The means by which information is conveyed
What is a medium?
The concept that suggests that the era of print created a shift in how knowledge was stored and shared
What is the Gutenberg Parenthesis?
What LLM stands for
What is Large Language Model?
The inventor of the printing press
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
The date/time that the midterm opens and the date/time that the midterm closes
What is Nov 1 at 10am and Nov 4 at 5pm?
The attribution of human traits or attributes to non-human entities
What is anthropomorphism?
The idea that many creative works can be built upon or inspired by previous works
What is derivativeness?
The term for using labeled data while training machine learning models
What is supervision / supervised learning?
The group of English textile workers who protested the use of machines to replace factory workers during the Industrial Revolution
Who were the Luddites?
The number of multiple choice or multiple answer questions on the midterm
What is 7?
Technology as an extension or augmentation of human capabilities
What is prosthesis / prosthetics?
The process by which people internalize writing technologies, which then further shape their cognitive habits
The process of annotating data with relevant information to train AI models
What is data labeling?
The Greek philosopher who claimed that writing eroded one's memory
Who was Plato?
The number of short answer questions on the midterm
What is 3?
The field of AI focused on the interaction between computers and human languages
What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?
What is aura?
The phrase describing how LLMs use predictive algorithms to generate text from data patterns without true learning or comprehension
What are stochastic parrots?
The new type of law enacted by England in 1710
What is copyright law?
The conditions under which Canvas subtracts from your score on a multiple answer question
What is checking an incorrect answer?
A gap arising from a lack of necessary documentation or failure to maintain it, which can lead to misunderstanding and misuse of AI systems
What is documentation debt?
The conflicting perspectives presented by Diderot and Condorcet on copyright
What is a natural property of creators, according to Diderot; and a social convention, according to Condorcet?
The purpose behind a message or action, which is important for AI systems to accurately interpret and respond to user queries
What is communicative intent?
The bestselling book (and its language) that Martin Luther published with the printing press
What is the Bible in German?
How Canvas calculates partial credit on multiple answer questions
Dividing the total score for the question by the number of correct options in the answers; adding the amount of correct answers and subtracting the amount of incorrect answers