MIST2090 MIDTERM QUESTIONS | TESTED AND
PROVEN ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
100% (GRADE A+)
The chapter opens with a discussion about the ability of artificial intelligence technologies to play
this board game.
a. Snakes and Ladders
b. Chess
c. Monopoly
d. None of these
e. Go
Ans>> Go
This "paradox" described in Ch. 1 is defined by the observation that humans know a lot of things
that they cannot easily communicate with one another.
a. Polanyi's Paradox
b. Occam's Razor
c. None of these
d. Crocodile Dilemma
1
,e. Zeno's Paradox
Ans>> Polanyi's Paradox
Platform companies such as Alibaba, Uber, Airbnb, and Facebook are known for being:
a. Asset heavy
b. Asset light
Ans>> Asset light
General Electric used crowd-based resources in the production of this type of appliance:
a. Dishwasher
b. None of these
c. Automobile
d. Icemaker
e. Refrigerator
Ans>> Icemaker
2
,McAfee and Brynjolfsson reference a joke that the factory of the future will have two employees:
A human and _____.
a. None of these
b. a crowd
c. a cat
d. a dog
e. a machine
Ans>> a dog
This acronym refers to the opinion of a highly-paid decision maker in an organization
a. HIPPO
b. PLATYPUS
c. MOOSE
d. RHINO
e. None of these
Ans>> HIPPO
3
, McAfee and Brynjolfsson say that _____ is one of the earliest examples of fully-automated
decision making.
a. None of these
b. airline management
c. credit scores
d. television advertising
e. auto manufacturing
Ans>> credit scores
True or False: Rules-based approaches to AI are broadly considered to be a failure.
Ans>> true
The "_____ effect" describes goods that become more valuable to a user as the total number of
people who use that good grows larger.
a. bloom
b. real
c. network
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PROVEN ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
100% (GRADE A+)
The chapter opens with a discussion about the ability of artificial intelligence technologies to play
this board game.
a. Snakes and Ladders
b. Chess
c. Monopoly
d. None of these
e. Go
Ans>> Go
This "paradox" described in Ch. 1 is defined by the observation that humans know a lot of things
that they cannot easily communicate with one another.
a. Polanyi's Paradox
b. Occam's Razor
c. None of these
d. Crocodile Dilemma
1
,e. Zeno's Paradox
Ans>> Polanyi's Paradox
Platform companies such as Alibaba, Uber, Airbnb, and Facebook are known for being:
a. Asset heavy
b. Asset light
Ans>> Asset light
General Electric used crowd-based resources in the production of this type of appliance:
a. Dishwasher
b. None of these
c. Automobile
d. Icemaker
e. Refrigerator
Ans>> Icemaker
2
,McAfee and Brynjolfsson reference a joke that the factory of the future will have two employees:
A human and _____.
a. None of these
b. a crowd
c. a cat
d. a dog
e. a machine
Ans>> a dog
This acronym refers to the opinion of a highly-paid decision maker in an organization
a. HIPPO
b. PLATYPUS
c. MOOSE
d. RHINO
e. None of these
Ans>> HIPPO
3
, McAfee and Brynjolfsson say that _____ is one of the earliest examples of fully-automated
decision making.
a. None of these
b. airline management
c. credit scores
d. television advertising
e. auto manufacturing
Ans>> credit scores
True or False: Rules-based approaches to AI are broadly considered to be a failure.
Ans>> true
The "_____ effect" describes goods that become more valuable to a user as the total number of
people who use that good grows larger.
a. bloom
b. real
c. network
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