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149 free Artificial Intelligence trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free artificial intelligence trivia questions with answers. Think you're an AI expert? Put your knowledge to the test with our engaging artificial intelligence trivia quiz. From machine learning basics to cutting-edge AI developments, this 149-question quiz covers essential concepts that are shaping our digital future. See how well you understand the technology revolutionizing industries worldwide.
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Q 01Which American researcher is credited with coining the term 'artificial intelligence' for a 1956 summer workshop?
John McCarthy
John McCarthy later said he invented the name partly to escape the label 'cybernetics', and with it the choice of accepting Norbert Wiener as a guru or arguing with him.
Q 02Which test judges a machine intelligent if its conversation passes for a human's?
Turing Test
Turing Test is today's name for Alan Turing's 1950 'imitation game': rather than define thinking, he asked whether a judge chatting by text could tell a machine from a person.
Q 03Which AI subfield sits at the meeting point of computer science and linguistics?
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing had an overconfident start: after a 1954 demo translated some 60 Russian sentences, its organisers predicted machine translation would be solved within five years.
Q 04What subset of machine learning uses multi-layered neural networks to learn complex patterns?
Deep Learning
Deep Learning is named for the many layers its data passes through; it took off in the 2010s once graphics chips made training such networks practical.
Q 05Which British-Canadian computer scientist is called the 'Godfather of AI' for his neural-network work?
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton quit Google in 2023 so he could speak freely about AI's risks, saying part of him regretted his life's work; in 2024 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Q 06Which machine learning approach trains a shared model across many devices without exchanging local data?
Federated Learning
Federated Learning was first tested by Google in its Android keyboard: each phone improves the shared model using what its owner types, and only a summary of the changes leaves the device.
Q 07Which 2017 Google paper introduced the design that large language models are built on?
Attention Is All You Need
Attention Is All You Need, by eight Google researchers, borrowed its title from the Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love'; its self-attention design reads a whole passage at once instead of word by word.
Q 08What approach to computing uses 'degrees of truth' rather than strict true-or-false values?
Fuzzy
Fuzzy logic, proposed by Lotfi Zadeh in 1965, lets 'warm' or 'fast' be partly true, so a controller can ease a subway train's brakes by degrees instead of switching them on or off.
Q 09In 2011, IBM's Watson beat two record-setting human champions on which TV quiz show?
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter lost the three-day match, and Jennings conceded on his final answer screen: 'I for one welcome our new computer overlords.'
Q 10In what kind of simplified virtual environment did Terry Winograd's MIT program SHRDLU move objects on typed commands?
A blocks world
A blocks world kept things simple enough for SHRDLU to obey typed English orders such as 'Pick up a big red block'; Winograd wrote it at MIT between 1968 and 1970.
Q 11Which reigning world chess champion did IBM's Deep Blue beat in a 1997 match?
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov had beaten Deep Blue 4-2 in Philadelphia in 1996; after upgrades the machine won the May 1997 New York rematch 3.5-2.5, with two wins, one loss and three draws.
Q 12In March 2016 the program AlphaGo beat which 9-dan Go professional four games to one?
Lee Sedol
Lee Sedol lost the March 2016 Seoul match 4-1 but won game four with his celebrated move 78, the only official game any human ever won against AlphaGo.
Q 13In machine learning, which type of learning trains a model on a labelled dataset?
Supervised Learning
Q 21Which 1956 Newell and Simon program, often called the first AI program, proved dozens of results from Principia Mathematica?
Logic Theorist
Logic Theorist worked through an early chapter of the book and, for one result, found a proof more elegant than the one Whitehead and Russell had published.
Q 22Which 1970s program diagnosed blood infections using hundreds of if-then rules?
MYCIN
MYCIN questioned a doctor about the patient, then named the likely bacteria and an antibiotic dose; in tests its advice was about as good as that of human specialists in blood infections.
Q 23What term describes the periods of reduced AI research funding in the 1970s and 1980s?
AI Winter
Supervised Learning treats labels as an answer key, which makes its data costly: people usually have to tag each example by hand before training can start.
Q 14Which AI subfield lets systems learn from data without being explicitly programmed?
Machine Learning
Machine learning builds statistical models that improve with data rather than following hand-written rules; spam filters, recommendation engines and image classifiers are everyday examples.
Q 15Which chatbot, posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, convinced 33% of judges it was human in 2014?
Eugene Goostman
Eugene Goostman's age was a tactic: his creators said a 13-year-old can claim to know anything yet plausibly not know everything, and a third of the judges at London's Royal Society took him for human.
Q 16Which Toronto team's network won the 2012 large-scale visual recognition challenge, sparking the modern AI boom?
AlexNet
AlexNet was trained on two gaming graphics cards in Alex Krizhevsky's bedroom at his parents' house, yet the 60-million-parameter network won by a wide margin.
Q 17In October 2017, which country granted citizenship to the humanoid robot Sophia?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia announced it at a 2017 Riyadh investment summit, where Sophia spoke on stage without the headscarf and abaya that Saudi women were then obliged to wear in public.
Q 18Why was the Twitter chatbot Tay shut down just 16 hours after its 2016 launch?
It began posting offensive tweets
It began posting offensive tweets within hours, as users goaded it into repeating racist and inflammatory lines; its maker apologised and blamed a coordinated attack on a weakness in the bot.
Q 19The 1956 summer workshop regarded as the founding event of AI was held at which college?
Dartmouth
Dartmouth College hosted it on a bold promise: the organisers' proposal said ten scientists working together for one summer could make 'a significant advance' in machine intelligence.
Q 20Which author set out the Three Laws of Robotics in 1942?
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov tested his own rules at once: in 'Runaround' a robot on Mercury runs in circles around a selenium pool, torn between the law to obey orders and the law to protect itself.
AI Winter was the theme of a 1984 conference panel, where researchers including Roger Schank warned that inflated expectations would be followed by a freeze in funding.
Q 24Which kind of learning has an agent earn rewards and penalties for its actions?
Reinforcement
Reinforcement learning has an agent try actions and keep what earns reward; AlphaGo sharpened its play this way through game after game against itself.
Q 25Kismet, Cynthia Breazeal's 1990s MIT robot head, tried to get a machine to do what?
Recognize and simulate emotions
Recognize and simulate emotions was Kismet's whole brief: it picked up the tone of a person's voice and answered with moods shown through its eyebrows, ears, lips and voice.
Q 26The Roomba, a self-steering vacuum cleaner first sold in 2002, was created by which company?
iRobot
iRobot was founded in 1990 by three MIT researchers and also built PackBot military robots, until it sold that business in 2016 to concentrate on the home.
Q 27Which body passed the AI Act in 2024, a law that bans social scoring and ranks systems by risk?
The European Union
The European Union sorted AI by risk: social scoring is banned outright, tools used in hiring or policing face strict checks, and most everyday systems are left alone.
Q 28What kind of AI performs one specific task well but lacks broader cognitive abilities?
Weak AI
Weak AI, also called narrow AI, is built for one job such as face recognition or translation and can exceed humans there without any general understanding; a chess engine cannot drive a car.
Q 29Which machine-learning method finds structure in unlabeled data without a known output?
Unsupervised
Unsupervised learning works on unlabeled data and finds structure on its own; grouping similar customers or compressing data with principal component analysis are classic uses.
Q 30Which field of artificial intelligence trains machines to interpret digital images and videos from the real world?
Computer Vision
Computer Vision is how a phone unlocks at the sight of its owner's face and how a self-driving car builds a picture of the road from its cameras.