Challenge

IT History &Moore's Law

100

What technology became widespread in the 1970s–80s?

Personal computers (PCs)

200

According to Moore's Law, transistor count doubles roughly every how many years?

2 years

300

Name the two physical effects causing Moore's Law to slow down.

Quantum tunneling and leakage current

400

Put in order: Internet commercialized, birth of the computer, cloud computing spreads, smartphones rise.

Computer → Internet → Smartphones → Cloud computing

AI Basics

100

What does “AI” stand for?

Artificial Intelligence

200

Name the four nested levels, from broadest to most specific.

AI → Machine Learning → Deep Learning → Generative AI

300

What is it called when generative AI produces confident-sounding but false information?

Hallucination

400

What is the key difference between fixed rules and learned rules?

Traditional programs follow fixed, hand-written rules; machine learning learns its own rules from data

AI in Daily Life& Industry

100

Name one AI-powered daily-life service based on recommending things you might like.

A recommendation system (e.g., YouTube, Netflix, Spotify)

200

Which industry uses image-diagnosis AI to detect disease from X-rays?

Healthcare

300

Name two things AI is good at.

Any two of: finding/classifying patterns, recognition & generation, probabilistic reasoning

400

What is the “black-box problem”?

When it's unclear how or why an AI reached its judgment

AI Ethics

100

What is bias in AI judgments, caused by bias in the training data, called?

Algorithmic bias

200

Name the four basic principles of AI ethics.

Fairness, Transparency, Privacy protection, Accountability

300

What technology helps address the black-box problem by making AI's reasoning understandable?

Explainable AI (XAI)

400

Give one real example of a privacy issue related to AI.

Face-recognition surveillance in public spaces, or mass collection of online behavior data