Watson, I Presume
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Not From Around Here
Turing Test Prep
Is Your AI Clark Kent or Superman?
100

WATSON and his two human competitors competed for this amount of money.

What is 1 million dollars?

100

A verb meaning "to not have enough of something."

What is lack?

100

This late British physicist feared super smart machines could threaten our existence.

Who is Stephen Hawking?

100

Even though it is not from outer space, the author uses this word for machine intelligence because it is so different.

What is alien?

100

British mathematician, Alan Turing asked “Can machines think?” as early as this year.

What is 1950?

100

This kind of AI focuses on specific tasks, like a virtual assistant.

What is Weak AI?

200

Jeopardy! has this unusual format: the host gives answers and players give these.

What are questions?

200

A mistake or weakness in something

What is a flaw?

200

This founder of Tesla and SpaceX believes that there is nothing AI won't be able to do in the next 5 years.

Who is Elon Musk?

200

According to the article, a machine may not be able to appreciate this natural scene.  It's 6:00 pm somewhere.

What is a sunset?

200

The Turing test asks questions of a human and this other kind of responder?

What is a computer?

200

AGI stands for this, another name for strong AI.

What is artificial general intelligence?

300

WATSON played against the human Jeopardy! champions in this year.

What is 2011?

300

To invent or plan something using your mind

What is devise?

300

This computer scientist predicted AI will improve life for all humanity.

Who is Raymond Kurzweil?

300

A machine may use this step-by-step math process to construct its own joke.

What is an algorithm?

300

If the questioner can’t tell which answers are from the computer, the machine is assumed to be this.

What is intelligent?

300

Self-driving cars and online translators are examples of this type of AI.

What is Weak AI?

400

Twenty-five engineers needed this many years to develop WATSON.

What is two years?

400

To be the strongest or the one in control

What is dominate?

400

Ken Jennings and this other famous Jeopardy champion lost to WATSON.

Who is Brad Rutter?

400

A machine can sort thousands of documents in these tiny units of time.

What are nanoseconds?

400

Some researchers say the Turing test has serious ones of these.

What are flaws?

400

If AGI keeps improving, it might become this, far beyond human ability.

What is a super intelligent?

500

WATSON’s real “body” was ten racks of these computers that were kept off-site.

What are servers?

500

To do better than someone or something else

What is surpass?

500

According to the article, without carefully programming and these built-in, AI can become an uncontrollable supersmart machine.  

What are safeguards?

500

This word means aware, thinking, and feeling.

What is sentient?

500

According to the article, a computer watching a TV comedy, and explaining why this "item" was funny, would be better than the Turing Test.

What is a joke?

500

According to the article, even though AI can do many things it can't understand this?   

There are three options

What is courage, honour, and compassion?

600

Watson received its clues in this form instead of listening to the host.

What is digital text?

600

Some experts doubt machines will ever ________ all the processes in the human brain.

What is replicate?

600

A robot-weapon that fires on targets on its own is an example of one danger of super intelligence if there is no human ______________.

What is oversight

600

Many people around the world are turning to these AI friends-- that can have conversations, solve problems, and even give financial advice.  Some would say they are very "chatty."

What are chatbots?

600

Researchers argue that a computer can have a normal conversation without actually doing this.

What is thinking?

600

A superintelligence might not share human social and ethical values such as fairness and this term.

What is justice?