Applied AI Club Content Review

AI Basics

100

Software that learns patterns from examples, instead of only following rules a person wrote, is called this.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

200

In traditional programming, a person writes these.

The rules

300

A time you use AI without knowing it...

face unlock, autocorrect, maps, spam filters

400

A machine learning spam filter catches “FR3E M0NEY” because it learned this instead of one phrase.

The pattern

500

In machine learning, this goes in and this comes out.

Data and answers go in, and rules come out.

LLMs and Tokens

100

The “L-L-M” in LLM stands for these three words.

Large Language Model

200

An LLM’s one core job.

Predict the next word

300

LLMs read these chunks instead of whole words. In English, one is about 4 characters.

Tokens

400

This is the model’s “short-term memory,” or how much text it can see at once.

The context window

500

Name the two reasons LLMs make mistakes, according to our slides.

Hallucinations and the knowledge cutoff

Prompt Power

100

Writing your prompt so you get exactly what you need is called this.

Prompt engineering

200

“You are a chemistry tutor” is this prompt ingredient.

Role

300

The three words behind ICC.

Intro, Context, Constraints

400

This framework is best for writing to a specific reader, with tone and audience built in.

CO-STAR

500

Name the five parts of RISEN.

Role, Instructions, Steps, End goal, Narrowing

Web App Building Blocks

100

This language is the structure of a page, like the walls and rooms of a house.

HTML

200

This language controls how a page looks, like the paint and furniture.

CSS

300

This language makes a page react when you click.

JavaScript

400

This is not a programming language. It is a key-and-value format for storing and sending data.

JSON

500

You change a heading with Inspect, then refresh, and the change vanishes. Explain why.

You only edited your local copy in your browser. The real code lives on the server.

Keys, APIs & Tools

100

A dark mode toggle runs on the frontend or the backend?

Frontend

200

This service hosts your app and updates it automatically when new code reaches GitHub.

Vercel

300

In the restaurant analogy, the waiter who carries orders to the kitchen is this.

The API

400

Name the secret code that identifies your app to a service, and the file where you keep it locally.

An API key, stored in a .env file (which goes in .gitignore)

500

After too many requests, you get this error code and message.

429 Too Many Requests (a rate limit)