Sample Paper Questions – Part 1

Unit 1: Intro to AI

Q1 What is Intelligence?
It involves abstract reasoning, mental representation, problem solving, and decision making, the ability to
learn, emotional knowledge, creativity, and adaptation to meet the demands of the environment effectively.

Q2 What are the features of Intelligence?

1. Ability to communicate and interact effectively with people around you and the surrounding
environment so that you can recognize, understand then respond in terms of your actions.
2. Ability to reason, plan, solve problems and follow ideas to deal with unexpected problems,
uncertainties.
3. Ability to learn, and adapt by upgrading your internal system so that you are able to respond to queries
based on knowledge and experience.
Q3 What are the components of intelligence?
1. Problem solving: It allows us to arrive at a solution to a problem, by following some path which is
either known or unknown with or without hurdles to reach up to the solution.
2. Reasoning: It is the set of processes that enables us to provide a basis for judgments, make decisions
and future predictions.
3. Learning: It is the process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing or from past experiences.
4. Perception: It is the process of gaining, understanding, selecting and organizing information gathered
from different sensory organs.
5. Linguistic intelligence: It is the ability to use, comprehend, speak and write Language, for
communicating one's ideas and thoughts.

Q4 Explain the types of intelligence that are mainly perceived by human beings?

As per major researches, there are mainly 9 types of Intelligence;

1. Mathematical Logical Intelligence: A person's ability to regulate, measure, and understand numerical
symbols, abstraction and logic. For example, Pascal and Newton.
2. Linguistic Intelligence: Language processing skills both in terms of understanding or implementation in
writing or speech. For example, William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie.
3. Spatial Visual Intelligence: It is defined as the ability to perceive the visual world and the relationship of
one object to another. For example, Leonardo Da Vinci and I.M. Pei.
4. Kinesthetic Intelligence: Ability that is related to how a person uses his limbs in a skilled manner. For
example, Dancers and players.
5. Musical Intelligence: It is about a person's ability to recognize and create sounds, rhythms, and sound
patterns. For example, Singers, music composers and instrument players.
6. Intrapersonal Intelligence: Describes the level of self-awareness someone has starting from realizing
weakness, strength, to recognizing his own feelings. For example, Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.
7. Interpersonal Intelligence: Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to communicate with others by
understanding other people's feelings and the influence of the person. For example, Psychologists,
consultants, sales persons and politicians of the society like Ronald Reagan a famous politician.
8. Existential Intelligence: An additional category of intelligence relating to religious and spiritual
awareness. For example, Philosophers (Gautam Buddha), yoga instructors.
 9. Naturalist Intelligence: An additional category of intelligence relating to the ability to process
information on the environment around us. For example, gardeners, veterinary doctors, zookeepers etc.
like Charles Darwin, Steve Erwin are having this type of intelligence.

Q5 Define Artificial Intelligence.

 AI is the branch of computer science. It refers to any technique that enables computers to mimic
human intelligence or traits i.e., make decisions, predict the future, learn and improve on its own.
 An artificially intelligent machine works on algorithms and data fed to it and gives the desired output.

Q6 How does a machine become Artificially Intelligent?

A machine becomes intelligent by training with data and algorithms, once they are trained with some
information will help them achieve their tasks. AI machines keep updating their knowledge to optimize their
output.

Q7 Why are humans developing machines?

Humans have been developing machines to make their lives easier. Machines are made with an intent of
accomplishing tasks which are either too tedious for humans or are time consuming.

Q8 When a machine is called Artificially Intelligent?

A machine is artificially intelligent when it can accomplish tasks by itself – collect data, understand it, analyze it,
learn from it, and improve it.

Q9 How does learning and adapting help an AI machine in improvising itself?

 An artificially intelligent machine collects real time data and tries to figure out new patterns in it.
 AI machines get trained first on the training data and then optimizes itself according to its own
experiences which makes AI different from any other technological device/machine. The more the
machine gets trained on data, the more accurate results it gives.

For example:
Any virtual assistant is initially trained with few basic instructions, but with time, the machine captures the
data fed by the user, maybe the wake-up time, sleeping time, dinner time and so on. Later in time, the
machine gives reminders of similar things on the basis of data and adapts these new commands.

Q10 How do you make decisions?

The basis of decision making depends upon the availability of information and how we experience and
understand it. We cannot make good decisions without information. Having knowledge, experience, or insight
of a certain situation, helps us to visualize what outcomes could be.

Q11 Name the types of machines which have evolved with time.
Television/Mobile Phones/ Ceiling Fans/ Microwave ovens/ Headphones / Speakers/ Harvesters/
Refrigerators/ Air Conditioners etc.

Q12 Give examples of machines that are smart but not AI.
Automatic gates in shopping malls / remote control drones/ a fully automatic washing machine/ Air
Conditioner/ Refrigerator/ Robotic toy cars/ Television etc.

Q13 Give examples of artificially intelligent applications in our smartphones.

Phone Smart Lock / Snapchat filter / Shopping websites / Netflix / YouTube / Face Detection / Google Maps /
Emotions recognition / Google assistant / Natural language recognition / image detection / beauty filters etc.
Q14 Difference between training and testing data

Training Data Testing Data

Training data is used to train the machine It is used to check the performance of the
learning model. The more training data the AI model to see how well it can predict
model has, the better it can make new answers based on training.
predictions and accurately predict the
results.

Q15 Differentiate between what is AI and what is not AI with the help of an example?

AI Machine Not AI machine

1. AI machines are trained with data and 1. Smart machines which are not AI, do not require
algorithms. training data, they work on algorithms only.

2. AI constantly learns and evolves as it 2. Smart machines work on fixed algorithms and they
interacts with more data. The more always work with the same level of efficiency, which
data it has to work with, the more is programmed into them.
accurate its predictions and
recommendations become.

3. AI machines can analyze the situation 3. Machines which are not AI cannot make decisions on
and can make decisions accordingly. their own.

4. Example: AI based drones capture the 4. Example: An automatic door in a shopping mall,
real-time data during the flight, seems to be AI-enabled, but it is built with only
processes it in real-time, and makes a sensor technology.
human-independent decision based on
the processed data. Example: A fully automatic washing machine can work on
its own, but it requires human involvement to select the
parameters of washing and to do the necessary
preparation for it to function correctly before each wash,
which makes it an example of automation, not AI.

Q16 List down various sensors that are present in a smartphone and the type of data which gets collected
through them.
 ACCELEROMETER [ helps running AR applications and track steps]
 GPS [ Location Data]
 Gyroscope [Orientation Data]
 Magnetometer [ Direction and Magnetic Field Data]
 Biometric Sensors [Fingerprint, Iris, Face data]

Q17 What are the three domains of AI?

 Data Science/ Big Data
 Computer Vision (CV)
 Natural Language Processing (NLP)