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Artificial Intelligence Quiz

Q: Which UK university is home to the Alan Turing Institute, the national centre for data science and artificial intelligence?

University College London — The Alan Turing Institute is headquartered at the British Library in London and UCL is one of its founding university partners.

Q: What does the acronym 'LLM' stand for in the context of modern AI?

Large Language Model — LLM stands for Large Language Model, the class of AI systems such as GPT-4 and Claude that are trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human language.

Q: Which British mathematician, often called the father of computer science, devised a famous test for machine intelligence?

Alan Turing — Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test in his 1950 paper 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' as a measure of whether a machine could exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human.

Q: DeepMind, the AI research laboratory behind AlphaGo and AlphaFold, was founded in which city?

London — DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and was acquired by Google in 2014; it remains headquartered in London's King's Cross.

Q: In machine learning, what is 'overfitting'?

When a model performs well on training data but poorly on new, unseen data — Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too precisely, including its noise, meaning it fails to generalise to new examples.

Q: Which of these is an example of unsupervised learning?

K-means clustering of customer purchase data — K-means clustering groups data by similarity without labelled examples, making it a classic unsupervised learning technique.

Q: What is a 'hallucination' in the context of AI language models?

When a model confidently produces false or fabricated information — AI hallucination refers to when a generative model produces plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or entirely invented content as if it were true.

Q: The UK Government published its first National AI Strategy in which year?

2021 — The UK published its National AI Strategy in September 2021, setting out a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower.

Q: Which technique involves training a smaller AI model to mimic the behaviour of a larger, more powerful one?

Knowledge distillation — Knowledge distillation compresses the knowledge of a large 'teacher' model into a smaller 'student' model, making deployment cheaper and faster.

Q: What does 'GPT' stand for in OpenAI's GPT series of models?

Generative Pre-trained Transformer — GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, reflecting the transformer architecture and the pre-training approach used to build these language models.

From machine learning to large language models — how much do you know about AI?

12 questions · ~6 mins ·

Question 1 of 12

1. Which UK university is home to the Alan Turing Institute, the national centre for data science and artificial intelligence?

2. What does the acronym 'LLM' stand for in the context of modern AI?

3. Which British mathematician, often called the father of computer science, devised a famous test for machine intelligence?

4. DeepMind, the AI research laboratory behind AlphaGo and AlphaFold, was founded in which city?

5. In machine learning, what is 'overfitting'?

6. Which of these is an example of unsupervised learning?

7. What is a 'hallucination' in the context of AI language models?

8. The UK Government published its first National AI Strategy in which year?

9. Which technique involves training a smaller AI model to mimic the behaviour of a larger, more powerful one?

10. What does 'GPT' stand for in OpenAI's GPT series of models?

11. In reinforcement learning, what is the term for the signal an agent receives after taking an action?

12. Which AI safety organisation, co-founded by researchers including Demis Hassabis, advised the UK Government ahead of the 2023 Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit?

Artificial Intelligence Quiz

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