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Prerequisite
Assignment
() Identify the type of reasoning used in each of the three independent arguments shown below.

Week 1 () (A.) ... squares have equal sides. The figure on the cave wall is a square so the sides must be
equal ...
Introduction
(unit?
(B.) ... under low voltage conditions the pumps produce low pressure flow. Jack said water
unit=17&lesso
pressure was very low in the morning, so the voltage must have been low at that time ...
n=18)

Abductive (C.) ... for these ten circles of various diameters the ratio of the circumference to the diameter
Inferences and are roughly the same. Therefore, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter must be a
Expectations
(unit?
 unit=17&lesso constant for any circle ...
Assessment
n=19)submitted.
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On Machine 1) Argument A uses __________ . 1 point
Learning (unit?
unit=17&lesso Abduction
n=20)
Deduction
A New Test of Induction
Intelligence?
(unit?
2) Argument B uses __________ . 1 point
unit=17&lesso
n=21)
Abduction
The World Deduction
According to
Induction
Us (unit?
unit=17&lesso
n=22) 3) Argument C uses __________ . 1 point

From Particles Abduction

to Concepts
Deduction
(unit?
unit=17&lesso Induction
n=23)
4) Who said that "Thoughts themselves are symbolic representations"? 1 point
The Domains
for Reasoning
John McCarthy
(unit?
unit=17&lesso Rene Descartes
n=24) Galileo Galilei

Hierarchies in Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Representatio
n (unit? 5) Select the correct options. The Turing test was devised __________ . 1 point
unit=17&lesso
n=25) by Alan Turing

Logic and
to check whether a human spy is a double agent
Representatio to check the correctness of Turing machines
n: A Quick
to test whether a machine is able to demonstrate human intelligence
Tour (unit?
unit=17&lesso
n=26)
6) Lucy preferred a desktop computer over a tablet computer because it has smaller 1 point
storage. What does “it” refer to in the given sentence?
Lecture
material (unit? Desktop computer
unit=17&lesso
Tablet computer
n=27)

Week 1 7) Lucy preferred a desktop computer over a tablet computer because it has bigger 1 point
Feedback form storage. What does “it” refer to in the given sentence?
: Artificial
Intelligence: Desktop computer
Knowledge
Tablet computer
Representatio
n And
Reasoning 8) RFK Jr. tells Joe Rogan he has to be careful. In the sentence, “he” refers to 1 point
(unit? __________ .
 unit=17&lesso RFK Jr.
Assessment
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1 9) What do you recall from the lectures? 1 point
(assessment?
name=230) A physical symbol system (PSS) has the necessary and sufficient means for general
intelligent action.
Week 2 ()
A physical symbol system (PSS) is a set of symbols and a set of rules to manipulate
those symbols
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VIDEOS () A physical symbol system (PSS) hypothesis was stated by Asimov.

Problem 10) Which of the following are physical symbol systems? 1 point
Solving
AlphaZero
Session -
Jan 2025 () Apollo Guidance Computer
Variable-voltage transformer
Vehicle’s gear-train
ChatGPT 4o

11) Please watch the following four videos then answer the question given below. 1 point

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(2 mins) Spot's Got an Arm!
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(1 min) Tree's Company | Happy Holidays from Boston Dynamics
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(1 min) Atlas | Partners in Parkour
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(2 mins) Introducing Stretch | Boston Dynamics

Which of the following are fundamental to autonomous agents? (like Mars rover, self-driving
cars, autonomous robots, etc.)

Sensing — sense the surrounding environment

Cognition — reason with symbolic representation
Planning — make decisions to achieve a goal
Act — take actions to achieve a goal

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