Calling a Vocab
Let's Get This Read
Di-LLM-as
Technobabble
Loquizstics
100

The means by which information is conveyed

What is a medium?

100

The concept that suggests that the era of print created a shift in how knowledge was stored and shared

What is the Gutenberg Parenthesis?

100

What LLM stands for

What is Large Language Model?

100

The inventor of the printing press

Who was Johannes Gutenberg?

100

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?

200

The attribution of human traits or attributes to non-human entities

What is anthropomorphism?

200

The idea that many creative works can be built upon or inspired by previous works

What is derivativeness?

200

The term for using labeled data while training machine learning models

What is supervision / supervised learning?

200

The group of English textile workers who protested the use of machines to replace factory workers during the Industrial Revolution

Who were the Luddites?

200

The number of multiple choice or multiple answer questions on the midterm

What is 7?

300

Technology as an extension or augmentation of human capabilities

What is prosthesis / prosthetics?

300

The process by which people internalize writing technologies, which then further shape their cognitive habits

What is interiorization?
300

The process of annotating data with relevant information to train AI models

What is data labeling?

300

The Greek philosopher who claimed that writing eroded one's memory

Who was Plato?

300

The number of short answer questions on the midterm

What is 3?

400

The field of AI focused on the interaction between computers and human languages

What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

400
Walter Benjamin describes this as the unique presence of an artwork which may be diminished by mechanically reproduced art forms

What is aura?

400

The phrase describing how LLMs use predictive algorithms to generate text from data patterns without true learning or comprehension

What are stochastic parrots?

400

The new type of law enacted by England in 1710

What is copyright law?

400

The conditions under which Canvas subtracts from your score on a multiple answer question

What is checking an incorrect answer?

500

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?

500

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?

500

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?

500

The bestselling book (and its language) that Martin Luther published with the printing press

What is the Bible in German?

500

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